Practice over attendance
Time spent in a course is not the same as demonstrated ability. Programmes are built around what a learner can do with the material, not how many lessons they opened.
About Us
Therapy Council is a collective of practising psychologists and educators working to raise the standard of non-clinical mental wellbeing practice. We build assessed, self-paced certifications for the people who meet distress before a clinician does: coaches, teachers, HR leads, and those moving into the field.
Upskilling by design
Each programme adds one applied skill to the work a learner already does or is training for, through scenarios, exercises, and practice tasks.
Assessment before award
No certificate is issued until the assessment is passed. Passing is the requirement, not attendance.
Public verification
Every credential we issue can be checked on the Therapy Council register. Free, no account, no need to contact us.
What is Therapy Council?
Therapy Council is a private de facto organisation of psychologists and educators working to make mental wellbeing skills teachable, assessable, and verifiable outside a clinical degree.
Most people who encounter someone in distress are not clinicians. They are teachers, managers, coaches, and colleagues, and almost none of them have been trained for it. Therapy Council exists to close that gap with structured education in art therapy, school counselling, life coaching, and workplace wellbeing, delivered self-paced and assessed before any certificate is issued.
We are not a licensing or statutory regulatory body. Our certifications record training completed and an assessment passed. They do not grant a licence to practise or permit the use of a protected title. Regulated clinical practice remains the domain of statutory boards, and we say so on every certification page.
Read the credential terms“A useful credential tells people what was learned, what was assessed, and whether the claim can be checked.”
Our mission is to make professional learning easier to trust.
For learners, that means knowing the hours and the syllabus before paying. For employers and schools, a credential they can verify in seconds without calling us. For the field, fewer certificates claiming more than they should.
How a Therapy Council credential is earned
One standard connects the course, the assessment, the certificate, and its public record.
We publish the standard
The curriculum, the assessment, the study hours, and the credential terms are on the certification page before you enrol.
You put it into practice
Structured lessons, case work, reflection, and applied tasks. Not videos and a quiz.
You sit the assessment
Completion is not enough. You have to meet the stated standard, and not everyone does on the first attempt.
We register the credential
Pass, and you get a numbered certificate with a public register entry, verifiable for four years.
What we will not compromise
These four principles shape how programmes are designed, how learners are assessed, and how credentials are described.
Clear scope of practice
Every certification page states what the programme prepares you to do and what it does not authorise. We would rather lose a sale than have a credential misrepresented to a client or a school.
Paying is not passing
Certification decisions are made against the published standard. A fee buys access to the programme and its assessment. It does not buy the certificate.
Evidence in public
Curricula, assessment expectations, credential terms, and the register itself are open to anyone who wants to check them.
Trust has to travel beyond the learner.
A credential is only useful when the people receiving it can understand it and check it.
- Learners
- What you will learn, how you will be assessed, and what the credential means. All of it before you pay.
- Employers
- Enter the certificate number, see the holder, the certification, and whether it is still valid. Free, no account, no email to us.
- Schools and organisations
- The full syllabus and assessment standard, published, so you can judge whether the training fits the role before you approve it.
- Clients and communities
- A stated scope of practice on every certification, so the person you are working with can show what they are trained to do, and what they are not.
Earn a place on the register.
Every certificate we issue carries a number and a public record. Clients, employers, and schools can check it in seconds, free, without contacting us.