Partners, Friends and Useful Links
Australian Counselling Association
ACA is Australia’s largest single registration body for Counsellors and Psychotherapists with over 3,000 members. ACA serves a crucial role in advocating and advancing the profession of counselling and psychotherapy.
ACA’s objectives include:
✓ Promote and advocate for the counselling profession
✓ Represent its members to government and industry
✓ Establish appropriate training standards for the profession
✓ Accredit appropriate education courses for Counsellors
✓ Assist members with employment and practice development
✓ Recognise appropriate professional development opportunities for members
✓ Establish and oversee codes of ethical practice
✓ Assist the mental health consumer access ethical and appropriate service providers
Crisis Care
Contact Crisis Care when:
✓ You need someone to help sort out a serious problem
✓ You are concerned about the well-being of a child
✓ You are escaping domestic violence and need help arguments are causing unhappiness and problems in your family
✓ You are alone or afraid and urgently need to talk to someone
✓ You are homeless
✓ You need counselling, information or other support
Lifeline
Lifeline is a national charity providing all Australians experiencing a personal crisis with access to 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention services.
Somewhere in Australia there is a new call to Lifeline every minute.
People call Lifeline’s 24 hour crisis line 13 11 14 about:
✓ Suicidal thoughts or attempts
✓ Personal crisis
✓ Anxiety
✓ Depression
✓ Loneliness
✓ Abuse and trauma
✓ Stresses from work, family or society
✓ Self-help information for friends and family
International Academy of Collaborative
IACP is the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, an international community of legal, mental health and financial professionals working in concert to create client-centered processes for resolving conflict.
IACP supports Collaborative Practice as a conflict resolution option worldwide by:
✓ establishing and upholding the essential elements, ethical and practice standards of Collaborative Practice;
✓ fostering professional excellence by educating and providing resources to Collaborative practitioners;
✓ leading and integrating the Collaborative community; and
✓ promoting the growth of Collaborative Practice.
