accreditation organisations UKCP, BACP or BCP which require a level of experience and proficiency, including a number of hours in therapy, training, continuing professional development etc. These organisations are responsible for standards, codes of ethics, complaints and so forth. Therefore, in the UK it is useful to know whether a therapist or counsellor is accredited and who with. Thanks to everyone who commented with feedback and suggestions on the 15 guidelines: Jennifyer, Jodi, & Karen I will put some time into ordering the guidelines by importance and adding some of the information that was shared via blog and backchannel. Roger, Claire, and others with similar comments, I want you to know that we adjusted our licensure questions to include room for those counselors who are accredited and certified. To view the changes or to adjust your licensure status log back into your profile here: http://www.goodtherapy.org/edit-counseli\\... From the time I was a student in psychiatric social work in the 70?s, I understood instinctively that when we "label" something, name it, it "exists". I've shunned the "pathologizing" capability of psychiatric labels. With the assumed "power" given therapists/doctors by our suggestible clients/patients, identifying someone with (or as) a disease becomes their identity all too often. Only a strong, self-knowing soul could escape the pitfalls of that kind of diagnosing: I've never operated that way, and today, even try to avoid "calling someone" "codependent," etc. We must find "labels" that lead our wards to their True, gifted Selves, that empower them- and ourselves, in