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PACFA supports students in counselling and psychotherapy by providing resources, advocacy, and professional development opportunities. The organization emphasizes the importance of registration for practitioners and offers student memberships that include professional indemnity insurance, access to CPD events, and networking opportunities. PACFA is dedicated to maintaining high standards in training and practice while honoring Indigenous healing practices.

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PACFA Student Membership V2

PACFA supports students in counselling and psychotherapy by providing resources, advocacy, and professional development opportunities. The organization emphasizes the importance of registration for practitioners and offers student memberships that include professional indemnity insurance, access to CPD events, and networking opportunities. PACFA is dedicated to maintaining high standards in training and practice while honoring Indigenous healing practices.

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2024/2025

PACFA Student
Membership
PACFA acknowledges the traditional owners of the Wurundjeri
www.pacfa.org.au | [email protected]
Woi-Wurrung Country on which we operate, and pays respects to
elders past present and future.
A MESSAGE FROM
OUR PRESIDENT

Nigel Polak
PACFA PRESIDENT

Welcome to PACFA! As you embark on your studies and journey into the
rewarding f ield of counselling and psychotherapy, we are here to guide and support
you at every stage. We are dedicated to empowering you to excel as professionals,
providing a comprehensive suite of resources to support your development f rom
student counsellor to registered practitioner.

As a self-regulating body, PACFA emphasises the importance of registration as a


critical pathway to recognition and remuneration in the f ield. Enjoy your studies,
knowing that PACFA’s commitment to quality assurance and excellence extends to
fostering your growth and success, helping you make a signif icant positive impact
through counselling and psychotherapy.

www.pacfa.org.au
OUR
MISSION & VISION
Our Purpose
Why do we exist?
PACFA exists to support its members and the community by regulating the
training and practice of Psychotherapy, Counselling and Indigenous Healing
Practices to the highest standards of safety, quality and professionalism.
Regulating includes certif ication, registration, accreditation, and complaints
management.

Our Mission
What do we do?
PACFA regulates and supports the provision of effective high-quality
Psychotherapy, Counselling, and Indigenous Healing Practices.
To do this, PACFA:

• Registers and certif ies suitably qualif ied and skilled practitioners
• Accredits appropriate training courses
• Provides resources and a professional network for the development of
Psychotherapy, Counselling, and Indigenous Healing Practitioners
• Educates and advocates to the public, other professions, and policy
makers to ensure the value of Psychotherapy, Counselling and
Indigenous Healing Practices is recognised and appreciated.

PACFA student members are ‘student counsellors’ and are not registered to
practice professionally as counsellors or psychotherapists. They only see clients in the
context of their training program and supervised placement(s). It is important to note
that ‘student counsellors’ are still undergoing supervised training and are not yet fully
qualified practitioners.
CEO Johanna de Wever and President Nigel Polak at
Parliament House

OUR VALUES
Authenticity
• We act with integrity by being consistent, fair, transparent, and accountable.
• We are trustworthy and professional. We do what we say we will do.
• We are courageous in our willingness to speak our truth.
• We stand for the value and integrity of Psychotherapy, Counselling, and
• Indigenous Healing Practices.

Compassion
• We approach everyone f rom a position of kindness and goodwill.
• We celebrate difference and diversity.

Connection
• We seek to connect with curiosity and openness.
• We value the self of the practitioner as the heart of professional practice, and
the role of professional supervision in safeguarding our practices and their
recipients.

Humility
• We acknowledge our mistakes, embrace our failures, and learn f rom them.

PACFA is a registered charity working for the benefit of the profession.


Our Board does not have any affiliation with commercial training providers.

www.pacfa.org.au
INCLUDED IN OUR:
STUDENT MEMBERSHIP
Unrivalled Advocacy:
Campaign for greater recognition of counsellors and psychotherapists by
governments, NGOs, PHNs, and other organisations that provide
counselling services.

Professional Indemnity Insurance:


Access to affordable insurance cover through our partner Insurance.com,
with f ree insurance included in student membership, for any client work
undertaken within your training programs.

CPD and Practice Support:


PACFA offer a range of cost-effective CPD events including online and
face-to-face CPD run by PACFA; Including topics such as Grief, Trauma,
Neurodiversity, Supervision and many more.
You can also get access to past PACFA webinar recordings, f ree of charge.

Staying Connected:
Access to the international, peer-reviewed journal, PACJA and the PACFA
eNews; including updates on PACFA’s advocacy work each month, mem-
ber opportunities, useful information, CPD opportunities, and more.

Free Branch Membership:


Join your local PACFA branch and network with your professional peers
f rom all over Australia.

Explore our PACFA Colleges:


PACFA is designing career pathways for further recognition in advanced
areas of study. Every new student member gets complimentary access to
the College of Counselling upon joining.

JOIN US
TODAY
www.pacfa.org.au/join
[email protected]
We honour the long history of caring, cultural, creative and healing practices
that have taken place on this continent for millennia and continue today. We
extend our respect to elders past and present, and to all Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander peoples.

CONTACT US
PAC FA .O R G . AU/CON TACT
ME MBE R SH I P @ PACFA .OR G . AU
03 9 0 4 6 2 270

333 Drummond St

Carlton Victoria 3053

PO Box 1266

Carlton Victoria 3053

www.pacfa.org.au

facebook.com/pacfaofficial

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