Health · 3 hours ago
Therapist bodies demand statutory regulation to protect public.
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Professional bodies for counsellors and psychotherapists are calling for statutory regulation for the first time, saying it would protect the public from abuse. Currently, anyone in the UK can call themselves a therapist without qualifications and keep practising after misconduct. An independent commission report also says practitioners could offer more than 370,000 extra therapy hours a week to help ease long mental health waiting lists.
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