The Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision is hosting its 2024 year conference in Dallas, Texas from November 7-9th at the Renaissance Hotel of Dallas. There will be an auxiliary session pertaining to IRCEP liaisons, held in Waterford B on Friday 11/8, at 2pm. If you are an IRCEP liaison who will be attending...

IRCEP presented a session at the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE) 2017 Conference in Bahrain discussing the global perspective of the counselling profession and how culture plays an important role in preparing counsellors. The presentation addressed the current challenges within the profession, within the changing landscape of higher education, and...

Steering Committee Chair, Dr. Rick Gressard, shared his most recent trip to Swaziland. “I just returned from a visit for IRCEP to Swaziland a few weeks ago. Having been to India and Singapore as well over the last couple of years, I’ve had some time to contemplate the responses we have seen to IRCEP’s vision...

IRCEP facilitated a 2-hour workshop at the Southern African Association for Counselling and Development in Higher Education on September 12-14, 2016 to discuss the role that quality assurance plays in counsellor preparation and ways to promote excellence and best practice within the profession. The hands-on workshop addressed the process of preparing to write an IRCEP self-study,...

The International Registry for Counsellor Education Programs is holding a session, Is Counselor Education Going Global? A Look at how U.S. Counseling Programs are Doing International Outreach at the following ACES Regional Conferences: NARACES Conference Saturday, September 24 10:10-11:10 AM Location: Syracuse, NY SACES Conference Friday, October 7th 3-3:50 PM Location: New Orleans, LA NCACES Conference Friday, October 21...

IRCEP selects Andreas Bienert, a doctoral candidate at Regent University, as European appointment to the Steering Committee. Andreas is originally from Austria. Andreas Bienert is a native of Austria and has lived in the United States since 2008. His bi-cultural background and focus on Community Mental Health has led him to a number of volunteer...

Dr. Sachin Jain was awarded the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development Advocacy Award at the ACA 2015 Conference in Orlando, Florida.

IRCEP has launched a fellowship program for international doctoral-level students. The program is designed to offer opportunities to current international CACREP doctoral students to become an IRCEP Fellow for a one-year term. This one year fellowship is designed to provide an in-depth training and exposure of quality assurance in higher education, specifically in counselor education. The...

IRCEP sponsored a book drive in CACREP 2015 Advocacy Week. We received over 200 books and journals that will be donated to counselling programs in need throughout the world. A special thanks to all the CACREP programs and students that participated. Did you miss the IRCEP Book Drive but still want to donate used counseling...

Thursday, October 15, 2015 – Saturday, October 17, 2015 The Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC) is hosting a Symposium in October that aims to showcase and contribute to the future landscape of the counselling profession in Singapore. For more information please click here.  

Several of the IRCEP Ambassadors are presenting at the ACES Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Thursday, October 8 1:30 – 2:20 PM Room Number: Salon B Culturally Relevant International Counseling, Research, and Teaching: Counselor Educators Share Best Practices For more information about the ACES Conference click here.  

July 10, 2014 In July 2014, the CACREP Board affirmed the IRCEP Steering Committee’s decision that the following counsellor education programs be added to the Registry of Approved Programs for the full seven-year cycle: TCA College Postgraduate Diploma in Counseling Master of Arts in Counseling   The South African College of Applied Psychology Higher Certificate...