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Over the years, there have been frequent discussions on this subject. And proposed training hours have been the subject of much debate, discussion and consultation. They reflect the need to incorporate the various 'levels' of counsellor under the European standards umbrella and promote the professional counsellor’s mobility across National boundaries to enhance the career path working towards "Counselling without Borders".

We have been fortunate to have committee members representing different countries, modalities, and comprehensive experience of the counselling profession internationally.

EAC now offers accreditation as a European Counsellor. You will find the standards and procedures for the European Certificate of Counsellor Accreditation award on these pages.

The goal has been to attempt to honour accreditation in the setting of standards for counselling across Europe.

The European Association for Counselling Synopsis of the History of Counselling

The emergence of the counselling profession could be said to be a twentieth-century phenomenon. Throughout the evolution of peoples, there have been healers for those who were emotionally traumatised. These included oracles, high priests, witch doctors, leaders in established religions and medical professionals. Because of the enormous sociological and cultural changes that swept Western Europe and the United States in particular, from the last half of the nineteenth century, the need for an additional and more specific professional response made itself felt. Professional family care started in the United States as early as 1877. Standardisation of the family social-work response had to come and was in place by 1911. It was in this Social Science working response that counselling techniques had their origins.