Accredited courses offer quality training to a high standard, which is recognised by employers, colleagues and prospective clients. BACP accredited course graduates are eligible to apply for MBACP membership and can be sure that their practitioner training will meet the training requirement for counsellor/psychotherapist accreditation. 

Accredited courses have met the criteria for course accreditation as detailed in the BACP publication Accreditation of Training Courses (BACP 2002). An accredited course provider must be an Organisational Member of BACP, which means that the organisation is bound by BACP’s Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy and subject to the Professional Conduct Procedure within.

If you would like to find out more information about any accredited course listed here, please use the contact details given for the course.

Only courses that have completed the accreditation process and have received confirmation of their accredited status may include the words “BACP Accredited Course” in their publicity material.  Other courses should not include in any publicity material their intention to apply or even that they have applied for accreditation; applications may, in some cases be withdrawn, be unsuccessful, or encounter delays during the process.

You can use this directory to find a BACP accredited course in your area or to check if a course has been accredited. You can also use it to check if any training you have completed was BACP accredited at that time.

The date on which a course was first accredited is shown in brackets. Anyone completing the course successfully on or after this date may claim to have completed a BACP accredited course.

If you have completed a training course and want to check if it was accredited, you might not find it on the main list. Any previously accredited courses which have ended appear in the Appendix

Accreditation is awarded on an individual basis, which is to a specific course rather than to the training institution. If a course title does not match any listed for that provider, that course is unlikely to be accredited. Courses running at any venue other than those listed for a training provider will not be accredited.


An award or certificate should state that the course is BACP accredited, or it must be accompanied by an official letter from the institution, to confirm that graduate has completed a BACP accredited training course.

If you have any queries about course accreditation please contact allie.grifiths@bacp.co.uk or call 01455 883338.

APPENDIX

Courses which are not intaking, running accredited appear here. The first date is the date from which the course was accredited; the second date is the end date of the accreditation. If there is no end date, the course has current accredited status but may not be in progress or admitting new students at this time.

APAC Ltd (Academy of Play and Child Psychotherapy)
Fern Hill Centre, Fairwarp, East Sussex, TN22 3BU
Tel 01825 712312  www.playtherapy.org.uk
Diploma in Play Therapy (May 2005)

Carlisle College
Diploma in Counselling (June 2000-June 2005)

Central Sussex College Child Care and Counselling
Service Industries, College Road, Crawley, RH10 1NR
Tel: 01293 442345 www.crawley-college.ac.uk
Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (June 1999- Jan 2003)
Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counselling (Jan 2003 - April 2006)
Previously known as Crawley College

City College Coventry
Tile Hill Lane, Coventry, CV4 9SU
Diploma in Humanistic Counselling (June 2000 – July 2004)

City College Manchester
Northenden Campus, Sale Road, Northenden, Manchester, M23 0DD
Advanced Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (part time) (September 1990 – November 2005)

City University
The Facets Training Programme (January 2000)

Crawley College (see Central Sussex College)

Fareham College
Diploma in Gestalt Counselling (January 1994 – January 2004)

Institute for Person-Centred Learning (UK)
Learning/Training Programme in Client-Centred
Psychotherapy & Counselling (January 1993 - December 2002)

Iron Mill Institute 
Pentraze, Truro
Tel: 01392 219200
Advanced Dip