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Becoming Professionally Competent

Competency in counselling therapy is grounded in the emotional intelligence of the practitioner, in a complex and flexible working model of human functioning and in knowledge and clinical skills acquired from a wide variety of learning sources. Our profession became more formally established in the latter half of the 20th century out of the confluence […]

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GST/HST Exemption Update

On November 21, the federal government tabled its fall economic statement. In the statement, the government proposed to exempt professional services rendered by psychotherapists and counselling therapists from GST/HST. Legislation will now be introduced and (very likely) passed in the house in the coming months. On November 29, The Minister of Finance introduced legislation in

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Entry-to-Practice Competency Profile for Counselling Therapists

Question: What quality characterizes registrants in health profession colleges? Professional competency. That is what registered status means.Across Canada, regulated health professionals from nurses and midwives to acupuncturists and dietitians — all are required to meet registration requirements for which competency is the underlying metric. Many health professions require applicants to actively demonstrate their proficiency in

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What is a Counselling Therapist?

In the early 2000s, a group of counselling therapists from different professional associations came alongside BC government officials and it was decided that if the profession was going to be regulated in a single title was required. After much deliberation and research the term counseling therapist was born and has since been used and adopted

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What Does FACTBC Stand For?

Let’s start with the name: Federation of Associations for Counselling Therapists in British Columbia.   We are twelve associations who all believe in the same principles, namely that: The question again: What does FACTBC stand for?  The success of any organization like FACTBC is rooted in the people who volunteer their time to take on

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What is Therapy Abuse? 

It’s Time to Make Some Changes  About the Author:Bernadine Fox is an award-winning mental health advocate with over 30 years of experience and has become a voice for those who are unable to speak about the traumas they have suffered in their therapeutic relationships. The article below identifies the patterns and challenges that clients can

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Removing Eurocentric Barriers

The route to professional standing in Counselling Therapy originated through the provision of training in counselling provided in Faculties and Departments such as Psychology, Education, Social Work and Theology. Because of the formal administrative structures of institutions offering these disciplines, the training often occurred in the context of a post-baccalaureate, graduate degree program. Times have

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Professional Association vs. Regulatory Body

What’s the difference between a professional association and a regulatory body? A professional association is a voluntary organization created by its members to promote the interests of their profession via advocacy for its membership and via the provision of professional supports such as liability insurance plus training and networking opportunities. Such an association is often therefore described as self-regulating

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We are Ready for Regulation

FACTBC has always believed in the standards of its member associations. As a consequence, it is our view that these practitioners are ready to be regulated. This belief underlies our preparation of the draft Registration Process which we can offer to the regulatory body which we eventually join. Our proposed registration process provides for direct access to regulated

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