Ontario Association Of Consultants Counsellors Psychometrists and Psychotherapists

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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 communicatio