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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Ella Pickover

Minister raises concerns over ‘ease’ of becoming counsellor or therapist

The Government has announced plans to recruit 8,500 more mental health specialists (Alamy/PA) -

Government officials are to examine whether counsellors or therapists can set themselves up too “easily” amid soaring rates of diagnoses of mental ill health.

Health minister Stephen Kinnock said that counsellors in some other countries undergo years of training, but he was “struck” by how easy it is to “set up and start charging for it within the next day”.

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