Eligible practitioners may apply for listing on the PACFA National Register as a PACFA Accredited Supervisor. PACFA Accredited Supervisors are Clinical Registrants whose practice includes the provision of professional supervision to counsellors and/or psychotherapists.
Pre-requisites to apply for listing as a PACFA Accredited Supervisor;
Before applying to become a PACFA Accredited Supervisor, a practitioner must be listed on the PACFA Register. Applicants... Details
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One college membership is included for free in your PACFA membership fee for individual members. If you are a Member Association member or you wish to purchase an additional college membership, please do so here.
Please email [email protected] with the details of which college you want to join.
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Please Note: the Application Fee for Clinical/Academic applicants is non-refundable. This application fee is compulsory for all applications. Please select 'Add to Cart' and 'Finish' to submit your application. If you completed a non-accredited course, please add the non-accredited fee to your cart in addition to this compulsory fee.
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Please note: the application fee for Certified Practising applicants is non-refundable. This application fee is compulsory for all applicants. Please select 'Add to Cart' and 'Finish' to submit your application. If you completed a non-accredited course, please add the non-accredited fee to your cart in addition to this compulsory fee.
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Reactivation applications must be made within 2 years of the membership being lapsed.
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This presentation will help participants gain a foundational understanding of AOD including how to support clients presenting with these issues.
This PD discusses:
• how support individuals and their loved ones who are at risk or impacted by addiction
• understand the correlation between substance abuse and mental health
• the role of families in addiction
• the role of counsellor
This webinar is suitable for practitioners with no... Details
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Globally, humans are increasingly dealing with very complex issues on a daily basis. Trauma is now a buzz word across the internet and within the therapeutic context.
This training is about working on the essential and most important and specific traumatic events that need to be worked on within the individual and/or relationship context, or how to ethically process the work in a contained manner.
The contextualised self that individuals find themselves in within systems... Details
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This PD is for counsellors/therapists who would like to explore somatic mindfulness as a tool to cultivate self-regulation by:
• Becoming aware of inner sensations, emotions and thoughts
• Being mindful about sensations received through the senses
• Bringing awareness to relational somatic resources
• Becoming more coherently present in the here and now
Co-regulation precedes self-regulation and lays a core foundation to it. Our capacity to become aware, ... Details
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Eating disorders are among the most prevalent mental health disorders, and often co-occur with other diagnoses that are commonly seen in counselling practice. Early identification and treatment of eating disorders are essential for best patient outcomes, but opportunities are often missed.
This webinar aims to improve practitioner confidence in identifying and assessing eating disorders within counselling practice and develop understanding of the options for... Details
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Mardi Gras & Prides are times of year that can be exhilarating, confronting, and community building events. Clients who have excluded or marginalised gender, body, kinship, and sexuality lived experiences may often experience a myriad of emotions and thoughts as well as being targets of violence and oppression at these times of year. Join Francis Voon as we discuss this year’s theme in a therapeutic context – honouring our client’s histories whilst urging them to imagine... Details
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While life continually reminds us that our lives are time-limited and that everything we do inevitably comes to an end, we often forget – or ignore – the fact that every beginning also has an ending. Many of us choose to live in denial, living in what Jean-Paul Sartre called bad faith. Conversely, the appreciation of time and the finitude of life can help us live more deliberately, the acknowledgement of our ending paradoxically adding more life to our life.
How does... Details
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Dementia is one of the leading chronic health issues in the world today. In Australia it is the leading cause of death in women and the 2nd leading cause of death for men. Few people are not directly or indirectly affected by it. As a neurological condition, it directly affects cognition, memory and behaviour, and in the later stage: physical health. Dementia is a confronting illness and significantly misunderstood, both in the community and in professional circles. Indirectly, it... Details
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This webinar provides participants with valuable information on the Stepped Model of Care in Mental Health and the primary mental health care landscape, as well as some of SA’s primary health networks. Participants will also learn what to do if a client is in crisis and where to refer them.
The webinar consists of two parts. The first part is an information session by the Adelaide PHN, presented by Simon McMahon, the Primary Mental Health Care System Lead, who discusses... Details
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The aim of this webinar is to support Relationship Therapists and all therapists to understand separation and divorce in the context of the Family Law Act when dealing with Couples who may be considering or have decided to separate.
This webinar is to provide therapists with an introductory however solid understanding of options open to their clients. It will support therapists to be supported by fact and to have a solid line of referral for these clients who are moving beyond ... Details
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Physical activity has now become a common strategy and recommendation in mental health practice. However, many mental health professionals find it difficult to discuss physical activity with clients. On top of this, most publicly available information focuses on the frequency, duration, and intensity of physical activity for physical health. This webinar summarises research that examined 1,000 different physical activity recounts to understand how different physical activity options... Details
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We are at a crossroads, with the climate crisis and ecological breakdown threatening personal, societal and planetary wellbeing. In Australia in 2022, 68% of people lived in an area covered by a natural disaster declaration. As we face these turbulent times, we also have an unprecedented opportunity to take action to mitigate some of the predicted future impacts, and to restore a more respectful and interdependent way of living.
Complex emotions such as such as anger,... Details
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The relationship between “body” and “psychoanalysis” has been ever-evolving since Freud’s initial conceptualisation. This PD webinar considers this relationship from a sense of embodied belonging, bringing in aspects of relational psychoanalysis, contemporary self-psychology, interpersonal neurobiology and affect theory (including affective neuroscience).
It begins with a brief overview of home, belonging in relationship, (dis)embodiment, and the emotional intelligence... Details
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Neurological research on connective tissue has revealed how body-based therapies have a profound effect on patients. A before-now unknown communication system among the three nervous systems (central autonomic and enteric) and the body results in a more integrated body/mind model. I will highlight the role of connective tissue’s plasticity, its ability to adapt to changing conditions on the nervous system, locally/systemically, externally/ internally as well as physically,... Details
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This fee is for PACFA members who have to take retroactive leave. Retroactive leave is for members who have not been practicing for a period of the financial year and cannot meet the renewal requirements accrued from this pro-rata period.
To lodge your application for retroactive leave complete the attached online form here:... Details
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Please Note: This is an additional application fee if you have undertaken training that is not accredited by PACFA.
If this applies to you, please select 'Add to Cart' and 'Finish' to submit your application. You will need to pay both fees in order for your application to be received.
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All application fees are waived for transferring ACA members until 1 July 2024. Applications are estimated to take no more than 4 weeks.
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Application fee of $1000 (incl. GST) for six (6) different CPD courses to be used within a period of six (6) months with all information submitted at time of application.
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CPD Endorsement Application Fee ($400) for one module for a six-month period.
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Application Fee for endorsement of a CPD course and licence agreement to deliver the course multiple times within Australia for up to a 12 month period. The Licence Fee is payable by the education and training content developer.
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Application Fee ($110 incl. GST) for subsequent delivery of an endorsed CPD course under a licenced agreement. This fee is payable by the presenter and/or presenting education and training provider.
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