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Professional Membership & Insurance for Counselling

Professional Recognition for Counselling

IICT provides professional membership and access to Counselling insurance cover to protect you, no matter where you are on your complementary therapy journey.

Whether you’re a student, a qualified Counselling practitioner, or a training provider educating the next generation of Counselling, you can rely on IICT to provide the credibility and cover to protect you while you practice.

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Insurance for Counselling

We know you’re passionate about helping people to live happy, healthy lives.

At IICT, we also want to ensure you have comprehensive professional indemnity and public liability insurance to protect you and your clients so you can continue doing what you love.

That’s why we have insurance partners across Australia, New Zealand, United States, Canada, Europe (EEA), United Kingdom and South Africa, to ensure you can be recognised and protected, no matter where you are.

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Multiple modality recognition in one simple membership

Practicing modalities other than Counselling? IICT currently approves 1,100+ modalities for professional membership and insurance, so you can have all your modalities covered in one simple membership, with easy access to multiple modality insurance cover.

We’ve done the hard work for you, so you can continue doing what you love.

View all multiple modality membership options here

View our list of approved modalities here

Professional Membership & Insurance for Counsellors
Become an IICT Approved Counselling Practitioner
IICT Membership plans

Membership Benefits & Plans

IICT membership FAQs

Membership FAQs

Do you teach Counselling to others?

Apply to have your courses approved by becoming an IICT Training Provider today.
Showcase your credibility as a Counselling trainer with our professional seals and internationally recognised certificates.

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The last thing you want is a situation that prevents you from doing what you love. Ensuring you have comprehensive professional indemnity and public liability insurance helps protect you while practising.

That’s why we have insurance partners across Australia, New Zealand, United States, Canada, Europe (EEA), United Kingdom and South Africa, so you can get insurance cover no matter where you are.

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To apply for an IICT membership, simply complete the online application found here:

 Apply for an IICT membership 

If you are in Australia or New Zealand, the process is:

Join as a student or as a qualified practitioner. Once you’ve chosen your membership level, you will need to upload copies of your qualifications/supporting documents, select your insurance package (optional) and then process payment. 

Our team will then review your application and get back to you within 3-5 business days. We will be in contact via email within this time frame, either advising of your approval or requesting further information. 

If you are outside of Australia or New Zealand, the process is:

Join as a student or as a qualified practitioner. Once you’ve chosen your membership level, you will need to upload copies of your qualifications/supporting documents and process payment. 

Our team will then review your application and get back to you within 3-5 business days. We will be in contact via email within this time frame, either advising of your approval or requesting further information. 

Once your membership has been approved, you will then be eligible to apply for our member-exclusive insurance packages.  

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There are four IICT membership pricing plans you can choose from, which you can find here:

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Once you have been approved for your IICT membership, you are required to obtain insurance. There are four insurance pricing plans you can choose from, which you can find here:

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Become an IICT Approved Counselling Practitioner

You must be a current IICT member to be eligible for the IICT member insurance program. If your membership ceases you will not be offered renewal when your policy expires. In arranging this insurance for our members IICT is acting as a distributor of BMS Risk Solutions Pty Ltd (BMS) AFSL 461594, ABN 45161187980 (AUS members) and BMS Risk Solutions (NZ) Limited (BMS), FSP 696531, NZBN 9429047279339 (NZ members). This insurance policy is issued by BMS under a binder with Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s. When acting under a binder BMS is acting as agent for the insurer and not as your agent. This is general advice only and BMS has not considered whether it was suitable for your particular objectives, needs or financial situation. Please read the Policy Wording and the BMS Terms of Engagement which contains the Financial Services Guide (AUS members) and any Disclosure Statement (NZ members) before making a decision about purchasing this policy. IICT may receive a percentage of the commission paid to BMS by the insurer and/or a fee per policy.