Counselling Statistics

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Last updated: 9th March 2010

Membership

Number of Individual Affiliates: 1373

New Registrations Pending Approval: 0

Volunteering

Number of Independent Volunteers: 907

66.1 percent of affiliates are volunteers.

Qualifications

Number of Qualifications Recorded: 10598

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

There are 253 types of qualification award levels.

There are 4098 unique qualification titles.

30 Year Counsellor Training Trend

There were 22 qualifications completed in 1980.
There were 17 qualifications completed in 1981.
There were 23 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 40 qualifications completed in 1988.
There were 54 qualifications completed in 1989.
There were 65 qualifications completed in 1990.
There were 83 qualifications completed in 1991.
There were 106 qualifications completed in 1992.
There were 115 qualifications completed in 1993.
There were 178 qualifications completed in 1994.
There were 230 qualifications completed in 1995.
There were 288 qualifications completed in 1996.
There were 351 qualifications completed in 1997.
There were 440 qualifications completed in 1998.
There were 578 qualifications completed in 1999.
There were 668 qualifications completed in 2000.
There were 791 qualifications completed in 2001.
There were 930 qualifications completed in 2002.
There were 928 qualifications completed in 2003.
There were 1008 qualifications completed in 2004.
There were 955 qualifications completed in 2005.
There were 810 qualifications completed in 2006.
There were 656 qualifications completed in 2007.
There were 536 qualifications completed in 2008.
There were 316 qualifications completed in 2009.
There were 16 qualifications completed in 2010.

Websites

Of our 1373 affiliates, 275 of them have an individual website listed against their public record, 5 percent.

Style of Working

9.8 percent are primarily Person Centred Counsellors.
2.2 percent are primarily Humanistic Counsellors.
1.8 percent are primarily Psychodynamic Counsellors.
1.8 percent are primarily Eclectic Counsellors.
2.7 percent are primarily Cognitive Behavioural Counsellors.
0 percent are primarily Cognitive Counsellors.
0.1 percent are primarily Behavioural Counsellors.
4.9 percent are primarily Integrative Counsellors.
0.1 percent are primarily Inter-Cultural Counsellors.
0.3 percent are primarily Human Givens Brief Therapy Counsellors.
0.4 percent are primarily Solution Focused Brief Therapy Counsellors.
0.1 percent are primarily Systemic Counsellors.
0.1 percent are primarily Philosophical Counsellors.
0.2 percent are primarily Transactional Analysis Counsellors.
0.4 percent are primarily Gestalt Counsellors.
0.4 percent are primarily Non-directive Counsellors.
0.4 percent are primarily Existential Counsellors.
0.9 percent are primarily NLP Counsellors.
72.5 percent are primarily Counsellors.

Callers

Number of referrals: 82

Presently helping: 46 callers to find free counselling.