To join the Harley Therapy Platform, you will need to have :
insurance to practice privately
ongoing supervision
a clean, quiet and professional room where you can hold in-person sessions (see information on locations below)
access to a high-quality internet connection and a suitable space for effective online sessions
an accreditation with one of the professional bodies listed below, or a BACP registration :
ACAT : Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy
ACC : Association of Christian Counsellors (Accredited Counsellor members only)
ACP : Association of Child Psychotherapists
ADMP : Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy UK
APCP : Irish Association of Professional Counsellors and Psychotherapists
AP : Addiction Professionals
BAAT : British Association of Art Therapists
BABCP : British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (Accredited members only)
BACP : British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (Registered or Accredited members only)
BADTH : British Association of Dramatherapists
BAMT : British Association of Music Therapy
BAPT : British Association of Play Therapists
BICA : British Infertility Counseling Association (alongside an accreditation with another professional body we accept)
BPC : British Psychoanalytic Council
BPS : British Psychological Society (Chartered Psychologists only)
COSCA : Counselling & Psychotherapy in Scotland
COSRT : College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists
EMDR UK : EMDR Association UK
FTAI : Family Therapy Association of Ireland
HCPC : Health and Care Professions Council
IACP : Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
IAHIP : Irish Association of Humanistic & Integrative Psychotherapy
ISST : International Society of Schema Therapy
NCAC : National Counsellor Accreditation Certificate
NCPS : National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (previously NCS/National Counselling Society)
NMC : Nursing and Midwifery Council
PSI : Psychological Society of Ireland
PTUK : Play and Creative Arts Therapists
UKAHPP : UK Association for Humanistic Psychology Practitioners
UKATA : UK Association for Transactional Analysis
UKCP : UK Council for Psychotherapy
📍 We are currently focusing on applications from therapists who have availability for in-person sessions and are based in major towns and cities across the UK, including (but not limited to):
Bath, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hull, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Luton, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Sheffield, Swindon, and Wolverhampton.
Please still join the wait list if you are not based in these areas, as we will contact therapists based in other areas if we see client demand increase, or if the therapist may be a good fit for the Platform.
Please note that we cannot work with therapists who are currently under investigation or facing disciplinary action.
We do not accept Student, Graduate or Trainee memberships with any professional body. For BACP, we accept both Registered and Accredited members, but do not currently accept any Individual or Student members.
We have more information here about what types of therapists Harley Therapy Platform may be a good fit for. If you meet the eligibility requirements, you can join the waitlist to be notified when recruitment reopens. An application does not guarantee acceptance to the Platform, but we will reach out to as many suitable therapists as we can.
You can join the waitlist by clicking on the pop-up on this article, or on the apply page. If the pop-up does not appear, please reopen either page in an incognito tab or a different browser.
The type of therapists we accept to join through Harley Therapy Platform are:
Caring. Therapists aligned to us are respectful, polite and compassionate towards their clients and to our team.
Reliable. Therapists keep their diary up to date at all times and honour new bookings. Therapists who reject bookings unavoidably and repeatedly, will usually result in an automatic account pause due to the negative effect to clients embarking on therapy.
Consistent. Therapists communicate clearly with their clients with regards to how they work, what to expect, upcoming breaks etc and work within this defined therapeutic frame.
Work in-depth. Therapists form meaningful, ongoing therapeutic relationships. Clients who contact us will be expecting the opportunity to forge a therapeutic connection, often over a long period of time. The Platform therefore is not suited to one-off consultations or short term work. Therapists’ profiles may not be actively marketed where client return rate and average sessions are short.
Self-sufficient. As independent practitioners, therapists will manage their own diaries, including rescheduling, refunds and correspondence between sessions.
Tech-savvy. To use our practice management system, therapists are adept with IT and make use of our automated bot to help with most questions.
We have more information here regarding the types of therapists that are a good fit for Harley Therapy Platform and how to know if you may be a good fit. Please review this prior to joining.
We are not currently accepting new applications from hypnotherapists, coaches, practitioners who only work online or by phone, or any practitioners who only hold a professional registration with one of the professional bodies listed below (list is not exhaustive) :
AC : Association for Coaching
AFSFH : Association for Solution Focused Hypnotherapy
ANLP : Association of Neuro Linguistic Programming
APECS : Association for Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision (Accredited members only)
APHP : Association for Professional Hypnosis and Psychotherapy
BATHH : British Association of Therapeutic Hypnotists & NLP Practitioners
BSCH : British Society of Clinical Hypnosis
CNHC : Complimentary & Natural Healthcare Council
EFT INTERNATIONAL : Emotional Freedom Techniques
FHT : Federation of Holistic Therapists
GHR : General Hypnotherapy Register
HA : Hypnotherapy Association
HS : The National Hypnotherapy Society
HGI : The Human Givens Institute
ICF : International Coach Federation
ICP : International Council of Psychotherapists
NACHP : National Association of Counsellors Hypnotherapists and Psychotherapists
NCH : National Council for Hypnotherapy
NCIP : National Council of Integrative Psychotherapists
NLPTCA : Neurolinguistic Psychotherapy and Counselling Association
NRAH : British National Register of Advanced Hypnotherapists
NRHP : National Register of Hypnotherapists and Psychotherapists