How to Join

All trainees and qualified therapists: counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists and psychological and wellbeing practitioners etc are warmly invited to become members of the Union. Please ensure you read the Union Constitution.  

Subscription Costs:

• Practising therapists - comfortable income: £90 per year

• Practising therapists - moderate income: £60 per year

• Practising therapists - low income: £35 per year 

• Trainees therapists: £12 per year (on proof of training status)

• ‎Retired therapists £12 per year (on proof of retired status)

• Unemployed therapist £12 per year (on proof of unemployment status)

• You can apply to pay a reduced subscription due to your financial circumstances‎. If you choose this option of the membership fee, please email admin: (admin@pcunion.org.uk) proof of your earnings. 

• Trainees who are also members of the following organisations: - Black Therapy Matters and BAATN pay the rate of £1 per year, per trainee.

• If you choose a concession option of membership, you will need to email union admin: (admin@pcunion.org.uk) proof of membership (BAATN/BTM) or proof of status (students/trainees/unemployed/retired) that correlates to the membership fee that you are applying for.  

Accessing the Members Support Services

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The Members Support Volunteers team service can ONLY be accessed by members who have been a member for at least 3 months. 

The process to join:

1. Set up an annual standing order payable to: Account name: 'Psychotherapy and', Bank name: Unity Trust Bank plc, Sort code: 60-83-01, Account no:20357063; please use your name as a reference.

2. Set up a standing order using the details below. It is now a requirement to pay via annual standing order except in special circumstances (get in touch).  Please use your NAME as a reference.

3.  Contact us at admin@pcunion.org.uk to tell us: the date that you set up this standing order, the amount it is for, and the date when the first payment will be made.

4. Complete the form below - all of the information will be sent to the administrator who will contact you about your application within a week. 

5. Please, do not complete and send the form unless you have first set up an annual standing order!

PCU - Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) SURVEY

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The Psychotherapy and Counselling Union (PCU) wants to meet the aims and commitments set out in its equality policy. This includes not discriminating under the Equality Act 2010.

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To do this we are building a statistical picture of the demographic make-up of the Union membership. We think this will begin to inform our efforts in taking action as a Union to ensure we are representative of the make-up of our profession as a whole.

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The Union seeks your help and co-operation, however, filling in this form is voluntary. We are encouraging self-identification, and where there are boxes, please tick all that apply. We are also providing the option to add more details in the 'other' box at the end of each question plus of course the option not to answer if you don't wish to or it's not relevant.

We understand and respect that this is personal sensitive information and we want to reassure you that it only be used for statistical purposes. Individual members will not be able to be identified. 

Finally, we ask that you only complete this once! The link below will take you to an anonymous page and won't reveal your identity.

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https://u65k19ksuyj.typeform.com/to/gGQk8ZKm

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Once you complete the form you need to come back to this page to click submit for your membership form.