Membership

There are 3 categories of membership: professional members, certified members and student members.  (see also in the Articles of Incorporation).

The membership fee for both Professional and Certified members is 90 euro.

The membership fee for Student members is 45 euro.

A financial year runs from July 1 until June 30 of the next year. When joining after the month of April of a certain year, membership is free until the end of that financial year.

Please read the admission procedure carefully before filling the membership form.

Professional Membership

If you apply for professional membership and you graduated from one of the recognized training programs (click here for the list), you may be accepted as a Professional Member without further screening.

If you got your education, training and experience elsewhere, there are two alternate ways to apply:

A) Two professional or certified members who have been EARTh-members for at least one year should recommend you by properly signing the standard text which will be provided by the secretariat. Recommending members should be of different schools and at least one of them from a recognized school. The recommending members have to declare they have seen you work in at least two sessions in accordance with the Code of Conduct, they consider you to have sufficient training and experience, to have a professional attitude and to be of good standing.

Please provide names and e-mail addresses of two EARTh-members who will recommend you, by using "Remarks" part of the membership form.

On receiving the signed recommendation letters, you may be accepted as a professional member.

B) In the absence of such recommending EARTh members, your application will be screened by the Membership Committee (please see the Admission Criteria). In order to judge your competence as a therapist, the Membership Committee requests the following materials and documents:

1. Information about your relevant training (where, when, with whom, how long), curriculum and graduation criteria and copies of certificates or diplomas that you will send to secretariat.

2. Video or audio recordings of two sessions of two different and consenting clients (click here for technical details), together with the transcriptions of the sessions. As an attachment to each transcription, a short summary must be written about the presenting problems and/or the symptoms and the reason why the client decided to seek your help, as well as the result of the session with a short personal comment.

If the language presented in the sessions is not English or one of the currently available screening languages (German, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, French and Turkish) you must translate the transcription of session recordings to English.

3. Your answers written in English to a questionnaire which will be provided by the secretariat.

Within two (2) months of receiving the requested material, two arbiters who speak the language on the tapes will evaluate your session recordings and their transcriptions and questionnaire answers and report their decision to the membership committee and the board.

Upon their approval, you may be accepted as a professional member.

Certified Membership

If you are officially licensed or accredited as a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist or medical doctor, whether at the national or European level, and as well as, graduated from one of the recognized training programs (click here for the list) or if you are certified by the IBRT (International Board of Regression Therapy), you will be accepted or listed as a Certified Member.

If you got your education, training and experience elsewhere, you will go through the same procedure as stated above for applicants for Professional Membership.

Professional and certified members will also sign the Code of Conduct.

Student membership

If you are enrolled in training programs related to regression therapy, can become a student member. If you attend one of the recognized training programs (click here for the list) you can automatically become a student member by stating your expected graduation year.

If you are having your education, training and experience elsewhere, there is an alternate way to apply:

One professional or certified member who has been EARTh-member for at least one year should recommend you by properly signing the standard text which will be provided by the secretariat. The recommending member has to declare s/he sees a professional potential in you.

Please provide the name and e-mail address of the EARTh-member who will recommend you, by using "Remarks" part of the membership form.

On receiving the signed recommendation letter, you may be accepted as a student member.

Become a member by filling out our electronic form here.

If you have any questions about membership, please do not hesitate to contact us.