Registered Counselling Therapist (RCT) is a proposed protected title by FACTBC, which will encompass anyone working within this scope of practice who has demonstrated their compliance with registration requirements.
What is RCT
Counselling therapy is a distinct health profession. Counselling Therapists, whose core practice is active treatment, support other professionals, such as nurses, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and physicians, but have a different primary focus.
Psychologists, for instance, focus largely on assessments and mental testing. Counselling Therapists may perform assessments to ascertain the severity of problems and develop intervention plans. Counselling Therapists do not diagnose mental disorders unless they have attained the competencies required to do so.
Why Choosing a Registered Counselling Therapist
Title protection will ensure that the public can associate Registered Counselling Therapists RCT with the assurance provided by a regulatory body
A protected title will allow the public to make decisions about the professional they engage for counselling therapy services.
A recognizable single title provides:
• assurance to a member of the public that the practitioner has obtained the core competencies;
• accountability to a code of ethics and defined standards of practice;
• confirmation that the Counselling Therapist is required to participate in quality assurance and
continuing competency programs;
• confidence that the counseling therapist is required to perform those services at least at a minimum level of competency and in keeping with an ethical decision-making framework.
Offering Ethical Counselling is at the Centre of our Approach
We strongly believe that it’s in the public’s interest in being able to access safe, competent and ethical counselling therapy services in British Columbia.
We support the FACTBC Application Under Sections 7 and 10(1) of the Health Professions Act. This application is the culmination of 26 years of investigation and discussion around the appropriate legal framework for the profession of counselling therapy.
