Membership Forms
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Student or Associate - Form
- Associate Application - Applicant form to become a CCAA Associate
Graduate and Clinical Member - Forms
- Registered Member Application - Applicant form to become a CCAA Graduate or Clinical member
- For NSW only at this stage, complete both forms below to join CCAA and PACFA simultaneously. Most applicants complete only 4 pages, and avoid considerable doubling up of paperwork.
- CCAA Intern, Graduate, Clinical Application - NSW applicants only
- PACFA Register Application - 4 pages of core evidence of training
Supervisor-signed Counselling/Supervision Logs - Certified Transcripts
It is a PACFA and CCAA requirement that ALL applicants who are counselling supply:
- Proof of their counselling and supervisor hours duly signed by supervisors. This means logs of some description, eg Course Counselling/Supervision Logs, the CCAA PD and Supervision Log or the PACFA Supervision and Client Contact Log.
- Certified copies of transcripts of counselling training (and certified copies of certificates if available). See Who can Certify Course Transcripts and Certificates?at the bottom of the Membership Forms page.
Graduate and Clinical Member - Guidelines
- Certification of Course Transcripts and Certificates - Mantatory requirement
- Recognition Prior Learning (RPL) - Recognition of Prior Learning Policy
- Apostle's Creed - Faith requirement of members
- Video Requirement - Some applicants may be asked to do a video/role play of counselling
- Theology Requirement - Explains alternate ways of fulfilling
- Counsellor Response Quality Rating Scale
- Pastoral Work, Pastoral Counselling and Chaplaincy
Supervisor - Forms and Guidelines
- Registered Supervisor Application
- Supervision Update to Members Nov 2011 - Supervision Update to Members
- Supervision Contract Template - Suggested
PACFA - Forms and Guidelines
- PACFA Training Standards - The official guide to PACFA and CCAA Registration requirements
- PACFA Register Application - For listing on PACFA if you are already CCAA Graduate or Clinical
- Extended Leave Application - CCAA & PACFA
Annual Renewal - All Levels
- Associate Renewal - Mailed May each year
- Clinical and Graduate Member Annual Renewal - Mailed May each year
- PD and Supervision log - Mailed May each year
Code of Ethics
- CCAA Code of Ethics - Mandatory reading for all CCAA members
- CCAA Complaints Procedure
- Ethics: Risk Management - Recommended reading
Professional Indemnity Insurance
Who can Certify Course Transcripts and Certificates?
Course Transcripts and Certificates need to be certified. This can be done one of the following ways:
1. Your College Registrar’s Office
2. Take your originals along with a photocopy to anyone who is currently employed as:
- an accountant - member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, or the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants, or the National Institute of Accountants, or the Association of Taxation and Management Accountants or Registered Tax Agents
- a bank manager, but not a manager of a bank travel centre
- a credit union branch manager
- a commissioner for declarations
- a barrister, solicitor or patent attorney
- a police officer in charge of a police station, or of the rank of sergeant and above
- a postal manager
- a principal of an Australian secondary college, high school or primary school.
3. Take your originals along with a photocopy to a Justice of the Peace in Australia with a registration number.
Pease note you cannot verify your own documents. Failure to provide certified documents may delay the processing of your application.
