7 Mar 2025 ● Harmonia Careers
Find Professional Associations (A - Z)
What is a Professional Association?
Professional associations, also referred to as professional bodies or membership organisations, represent and support professionals working in a particular field or occupation.
In the case of self-regulated professions in the UK such as counselling or complementary therapy, professional bodies promote and maintain high standards of practice, and provide a range of services such as, membership, professional development, networking opportunities, and practitioner support.
The Professional Standards Authority (PSA) helps to protect the public by improving the regulation and registration of people who work in health and care. As mot everyone working in health and care is regulated by law, it's recommended that practitioners join a register that has been accredited to improve their career prospects.
* these organisations hold a PSA Accredited Register
- Addiction Professionals
- Association for Coaching
- Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy UK
- Association for Professionals Hypnosis & Psychotherapy
- Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy *
- Association for Solution-Focussed Hypnotherapy
- Association of Child Psychotherapists *
- Association of Christian in Counselling & Linked Professions *
- Association of Cognitive Analytic Therapy
- Athena Herd Foundation *
- British Association of Art Therapists
- British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies *
- British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy *
- British Association of Dramatherapists
- British Association for Music Therapy
- British Association of Play Therapists *
- British Association of Therapeutic Hypnotists & NLP Practitioners
- British National Register of Advanced Hypnotherapists
- British Psychoanalytic Council *
- British Psychological Society *
- British Society of Clinical Hypnosis
