National Counsellors’ Day 2024
We extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone involved in the 2024 National Counsellors’ Day Conference held in June. You can explore the Speakers and view the feedback Gallery from the event.
If you have any questions about past or future conferences, please feel free to reach out to us at enquiries@nationalcounsellorsday.co.uk.
Stay tuned for details on the 2025 National Counsellors’ Day Conference – they’re coming soon!
Why a National Counsellors’ Day?
Our mission is to elevate the profile of the counselling profession and to recognise the vital, often life-saving work that counsellors do every day. Here’s what we aim to achieve:
- Increase the profile of the counselling profession by showcasing the invaluable contributions counsellors make to society.
- Acknowledge the life-saving work that counsellors provide, often at critical moments in people’s lives.
- Recognise counsellors as highly skilled, qualified, and experienced professionals who bring expertise and compassion to their practice.
- Raise awareness of the social and political issues in the counselling and psychotherapy sector that affect both clients and counsellors. We do this through our annual conference, which serves as a platform to address these critical issues.
- Celebrate each other and the work we do as a community dedicated to supporting mental health and well-being.
We invite you to support this mission. Share our event on your social media and with friends, family, and colleagues to help spread the word. You can also sign up for our mailing list to be the first to hear details about the 2025 conference – just pop your details in the sign-up box to the right (desktop) or below (mobile).
Interested in becoming a Conference Sponsor? Find out more here.
Missed the Conference? Watch the Recordings!
Couldn’t attend live? No problem! You can now watch all previous conferences at your convenience. The 2024 conference is available for just £19.99, and all earlier ones are only £10 each. Click below to purchase and enjoy the content at your own pace.
National Counsellors’ Day Awards
Celebrating our profession
In 2020, as part of the National Counsellors’ Day celebrations, we launched the UK’s first-ever National Counselling Awards. The awards were a resounding success, and we’ve continued to hold them annually. These awards provide counsellors with the opportunity to nominate themselves or others – whether it’s a fellow counsellor, organisation, or training establishment – for recognition across various categories, including private practice, employment, volunteering, training, supervision, promotion of counselling, products and resources, and contributions to the field.
Why Awards?
Simply put, we want to celebrate counsellors. It’s essential to recognise the diverse and impactful work we do and to acknowledge our achievements within the counselling profession, just as other mental health fields do with their own awards ceremonies. Celebrating counsellors is vital because we are highly qualified and skilled professionals working behind the scenes to make significant differences in people’s lives. Counsellors often give their time to support others, uphold communities, and fill gaps left by struggling public services – yet we rarely receive the recognition we deserve.
While we did not hold the awards in 2024, we look forward to returning in 2025. Stay tuned for updates!
