Information on access requirements, accessibility tools and support can be found in the accessibility tab.

Member’s can Expect

Your paid membership provides stable income to help cover the running costs of the Network without compromising our values and vision. In exchange you receive:

1. Free RTN Directory Listing (qualified therapists only)

2. Free access to support groups

3. Free access to learning groups

4. Reduced fee and early access to closed training groups

5. Reduced fee and early access to online events 

6. Exclusive access to Community Meetings

7. Exclusive voting rights on the direction of the Network

8. Free access to the Member’s Newsletter including; job opportunities, CPD, community updates, early access to training opportunities 

9. Free exclusive access to the Member’s Area which includes; event recordings, resources, glossary of terms, and more

10. Opportunities to connect and build relationships with Members who form part of a vibrant therapist community that centres community healing and education, works to dismantle white supremacy, and systems of violence within the world of therapy, and society at large.

Members will be Expected to

1. Attend and participate in community meetings and engage in the un/learning spaces

2. Commit to the Network’s Values

3. Contribute to the networks callouts, blogs and projects

(With thanks to the Racial Justice Network for inspiration on expectations)

You can apply to become a Member if you meet all of the criteria for your category: 

Qualified Applicants

• You are a qualified counsellor, psychotherapist, psychologist or arts therapist

• You are a registered member of a professional body such as UKCP, BACP, HCPC, NCS or other relevant professional body.

• You trained and qualified in Counselling or Psychotherapy at level 4, or above, or trained at MA or MSc level.

• You trained and qualified with a validated course internationally and are licensed and/or registered with a membership body in the country that you reside in.

Student Applicants

• You are attending a UKCP, BACP, NCS or other relevant validated course and registered as a student member with that body.

• You are attending a HCPC accredited training institution studying at MA or MSc level for a minimum of two years full time, or three years part time, or more.

• You are training in Counselling or Psychotherapy at level 4, or above. Your course must include at least one year full time, or two years part-time tuition and a supervised placement of a minimum of 100 client hours, as per course requirements.  

• You are undertaking a validated course internationally with the equivalent training requirements and be registered with a membership body.

Transformative Justice & Community Accountability

‘Transformative Justice is a political framework and approach for responding to violence, harm and abuse. At its most basic, it seeks to respond to violence without creating more violence and/or engaging in harm reduction to lessen the violence’. (Mia Mingus, 2018)

Transformative Justice is one aspect of Abolitionism that builds and implements alternative liberatory strategies that do not rely on the police, criminal legal system, prisons, and interconnected systems of oppression within healthcare, education, and social care.

It is a framework that encompasses accountability, prevention of harm, healing, working towards safety, and building community strength and resources.

• RTN works within a Transformative Justice framework to prevent, address and heal from harm within the Network, within the therapy profession, therapeutic relationship and systematically.

• Members are resourced to develop skills of accountability, however, there is an expectation that individuals will take an active role in self-development as part of their ongoing anti-oppressive praxis.

• The application form becomes a contract that the applicant actively engages with and will be drawn upon if an individual is invited into an accountability process.

• Members, Co-Directors, or people involved with RTN who cause harm to a group or individual may be invited to engage in a process of accountability and reparations.

• Accountability with RTN centres those who have been harmed, however all parties are offered holding as this work does not function as a punitive measure, but as a generative healing, community practice.

Your application will be declined if

• You are not a trainee or qualified counsellor or psychotherapist. Find out if you are eligible to apply in the FAQs

• There are missing parts of your application

• RTN believes that an applicant may breach the safety of the Network, its Members or the applicants’ clients

• You have not agreed with the terms of membership.

Storing, Processing and Handling Applications

• Applications are processed once a month by the Application Team who are bound by confidentiality unless there are significant safeguarding risks.

• Successful applications are securely stored within GDPR guidelines.

• Unsuccessful applications are not stored.

By submitting the form you acknowledge that you have read the Membership Fees, Accessibility Information, and Values carefully and that you agree to abide by the Radical Therapist Network’s core mission and values, and will become an engaged Member of RTN within your capacity.