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Counseling: Professional Organizations

Counseling Organizations & Associations

  • American Counseling Association
    The American Counseling Association is a not-for-profit, professional and educational organization that is dedicated to the growth and enhancement of the counseling profession. Founded in 1952, ACA is the world's largest association exclusively representing professional counselors in various practice settings.
     
  • American Mental Health Counselors Association 
    The mission of the AMHCA is to enhance the profession of clinical mental health counseling through licensing, advocacy, education and professional development.
     
  • American Psychiatric Association
    The American Psychiatric Association, founded in 1844, is the world’s largest psychiatric organization. It is a medical specialty society representing more than 33,000 psychiatric physicians from the United States and around the world.
     
  • American Psychological Association
    The American Psychological Association is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States. APA is the world's largest association of psychologists, with more than 134,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students as its members
     
  • Illinois Counseling Association
    Incorporated in 1969, the mission of the ICA is to enhance the quality of life in society by promoting the development of professional counselors, advancing the counseling profession, and using the profession and practice of counseling to promote respect for human dignity and diversity.
     
  • National Alliance on Mental Illness of Greater Chicago
    The mission of the Alliance for the Mentally Ill is to provide hope and improve the quality of life for those in the greater Chicago area whose lives are affected by serious mental illness by providing information & referrals, education, support, advocacy, and active community outreach.
     
  • National Board for Certified Counselors
    The NBCC is an independent not-for-profit credentialing body for counselors, was incorporated in 1982 to establish and monitor a national certification system, to identify those counselors who have voluntarily sought and obtained certification, and to maintain a register of those counselors.
     
  • National Institute of Mental Health
    The mission of NIMH is to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery, and cure.
     
  • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
    SAMHSA was established in 1992 and directed by Congress to target effectively substance abuse and mental health services to the people most in need and to translate research in these areas more effectively and more rapidly into the general health care system.
     
  • Kenya Counselling and Psychological Association is a professional association for counselors and Psychologists in Kenya with a membership of about 4000 counsellors and psychologists spread across the entire nation of Kenya. It was formed in 1988 and registered officially in 1990 as the Kenya Counseling Association (KCA).
     
  • Kenya Association of Professional Counsellors (KAPC) is a registered Non-governmental organization