What elements do I need in place to register with your platform?

Due to unprecedented demand, if you are interested in joining Harley Therapy Platform, please join the waiting list for either in-person or online therapists so we can reach out with an invite when a space opens up for you to join. Our general requirements for joining can be found below, and these still apply as usual.

So that we can attend to our clients and the therapists currently listed on the Platform, we are not able to answer any questions from new applicants prior to being invited.

We also cannot confirm any specific dates for sending invites, as we are prioritising therapists in different areas based on client demand, so this will vary greatly across the UK, even within the same cities and counties.

You can sign up to our waiting lists via the live chat pop-up on this page, or our Apply page here - this will allow us to reach out to let you know when therapists in your local area are able to join.

Thank you for your understanding.

Requirements for Joining

To join the Harley Therapy Platform, you will need to have :

insurance to practice privately
ongoing supervision
a clean, quiet and professional room you practice from (including for online sessions)
access to a high-quality internet connection to allow effective online sessions
an accreditation or registration (depending on the registration body and level of membership) with :

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 (previously SMMGP/FDAP : Federation of Drug and Alcohol Practitioners)

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/listed on this page)

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

Please note that we cannot work with therapists who are under investigation or facing disciplinary action.

We do not accept Student, Graduate or Trainee memberships with any professional body.

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 what types of therapists 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.

In-person Sessions (Current Requirement)

We are currently only inviting psychotherapists, psychologists and counsellors with availability for in-person sessions in specific UK locations due to unprecedented demand to join the Platform.

We are at capacity in several locations, so if you have joined our waiting list, there may be a significant wait until we are able to reach out to you with an invite. We appreciate your understanding and patience in these cases.

If you are invited to join, in-person sessions should be offered for the duration of your time on the Platform. You can and should offer online and phone availability in addition to this, but we are not able to accept applications for online-only work due to current client demand.

An application does not guarantee acceptance to the Platform. We select members based on client demand in the local area, as well as on the factors outlined in this article. Please read this article in full, as well as the article here about how to know if you are a good fit for Harley Therapy, before submitting your profile to check if the Platform would suit your way of working and to avoid any disappointment if you don't meet the criteria.

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