Counselling Statistics

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Last updated: 2nd September 2010

Membership

Number of Individual Affiliates: 1330

New Registrations Pending Approval: 0

Volunteering

Number of Independent Volunteers: 916

68.9 percent of affiliates are volunteers.

Qualifications

Number of Qualifications Recorded: 10817

On average, a counsellor within the British Isles holds 1.5 qualifications.

There are 253 types of qualification award levels.

There are 4204 unique qualification titles.

30 Year Counsellor Training Trend

There were 23 qualifications completed in 1980.
There were 17 qualifications completed in 1981.
There were 26 qualifications completed in 1982.
There were 33 qualifications completed in 1983.
There were 34 qualifications completed in 1984.
There were 30 qualifications completed in 1985.
There were 46 qualifications completed in 1986.
There were 46 qualifications completed in 1987.
There were 41 qualifications completed in 1988.
There were 54 qualifications completed in 1989.
There were 65 qualifications completed in 1990.
There were 84 qualifications completed in 1991.
There were 107 qualifications completed in 1992.
There were 115 qualifications completed in 1993.
There were 178 qualifications completed in 1994.
There were 236 qualifications completed in 1995.
There were 292 qualifications completed in 1996.
There were 355 qualifications completed in 1997.
There were 442 qualifications completed in 1998.
There were 581 qualifications completed in 1999.
There were 673 qualifications completed in 2000.
There were 797 qualifications completed in 2001.
There were 934 qualifications completed in 2002.
There were 941 qualifications completed in 2003.
There were 1021 qualifications completed in 2004.
There were 960 qualifications completed in 2005.
There were 826 qualifications completed in 2006.
There were 669 qualifications completed in 2007.
There were 559 qualifications completed in 2008.
There were 348 qualifications completed in 2009.
There were 61 qualifications completed in 2010.

Websites

Of our 1330 affiliates, 280 of them have an individual website listed against their public record, 4.8 percent.

Style of Working

11 percent are primarily Person Centred Counsellors.
2.4 percent are primarily Humanistic Counsellors.
2 percent are primarily Psychodynamic Counsellors.
1.9 percent are primarily Eclectic Counsellors.
2.6 percent are primarily Cognitive Behavioural Counsellors.
0 percent are primarily Cognitive Counsellors.
0.2 percent are primarily Behavioural Counsellors.
5.1 percent are primarily Integrative Counsellors.
0.2 percent are primarily Inter-Cultural Counsellors.
0.2 percent are primarily Human Givens Brief Therapy Counsellors.
0.4 percent are primarily Solution Focused Brief Therapy Counsellors.
0.2 percent are primarily Systemic Counsellors.
0.2 percent are primarily Philosophical Counsellors.
0.2 percent are primarily Transactional Analysis Counsellors.
0.3 percent are primarily Gestalt Counsellors.
0.3 percent are primarily Non-directive Counsellors.
0.5 percent are primarily Existential Counsellors.
1 percent are primarily NLP Counsellors.
70.9 percent are primarily Counsellors.

Callers

Number of referrals: 128

Presently helping: 10 callers to find free counselling.