Ontario Association Of Consultants Counsellors Psychometrists & Psychotherapists

The Schedule enacts a new health profession act with respect to the regulation of psychotherapy and makes complementary amendments to the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991 (RHPA) and a number of other Acts.The College is established as the College of Psychotherapists and Registered Mental Health Therapists of Ontario and the new profession the College will govern is psychotherapy.The scope of practice of psychotherapy is the assessment and treatment of cognitive, emotional or behavioural disturbances by psychotherapeutic means, delivered through a therapeutic relationship based on verbal or non-verbal communication.In the course of engaging in the practice of psychotherapy, a member is authorized, subject to any terms, limitations or conditions on the member's certificate of registration, to treat, by means of psychotherapy technique delivered through a therapeutic relationship, an individual's serious disorder of thought, cognition, mood, emotional regulation, perception or memory that may seriously impair the individual's judgement, insight, behaviour, communication or social functioning