Thank you for your interest in The London Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy.

Please do familiarise yourself with our website which sets out how lacap works, and the job descriptions for the therapists posts here. Lacap will accept applications from candidates who have completed training with UKCP or BACP accreditation, or from trainees at an advanced level.

Application is by cv to info@lacap.co.uk. We are far more interested in your recent clinical work than coursework
and training details. We do expect your application to set out the relation of your therapy and supervision to your formation as a therapist.

While we understand that all orientations can provide effective interventions, should your theoretical stance not
include the position of the unconscious, it is unlikely that lacap will be the place for your practice.

Best Regards

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Lacap was formed in September 2000 as a not-for-profit org. under a written constitution. The original membership of twelve was drawn from members and trainees of CFAR – a UKCP member organisation.

Of the current lacap members Donald Kirkpatrick, Yoko Kirkpatrick, Margot O’Donoghue & Julia Evans were in the original team.

That formation was disbanded in 2002, and lacap has since been run by Donald & Yoko in partnership. Lacap was opened to candidates from other training organisations with UKCP/ BACP accreditations. Please see the list of therapists.

Lacap is a Referrals Agency. While we have historically had strong links with GP referees, the majority of current work is based on self-referred application through the lacap website

In a climate that increasingly promotes brief interventions, lacap wanted to deal with the question 'What happens after brief intervention?' Lacap was formed as a response to the perception that current service provision fails some of those who could most benefit from a prompt, sustained therapeutic intervention but who cannot afford it at market rates.

Within resources you are free to negotiate the working contract with each patient. This means that you can give an appropriate and commensurate frequency and timing of sessions. Long-term open ended treatments are offered. Lacap has no problem with supporting therapy for as long as each treatment takes to conclude. The duration will not be limited by a set number of sessions or an artificial time boundary. Thus the needs of the patient will take priority over supply of therapeutic time.

Before the NHS model the medical profession often used to charge out under a ‘what can you afford?’ policy. Lacap charges on a sliding scale based on the applicant’s income. There is strong client support for a model where the fees of higher earners can be seen to subsidise treatments offered at lower rates. There is a strong transference to the logic of the charging.

Since January 2005 lacap has grown quickly. Lacap has two clinical premises with a capacity of 10 rooms to resource clinical hours from central premises. At January 2008 there were 30+ member therapists offering some 500 clinical hours per week with 7 student members offering at around 55 clinical hours per week.

Lacap is opening a further premises offering an additional 7 clinical rooms by December 2008, and is looking to increase its core associate membership to 40+ therapists with 20 student associate members.