About PAP

PAP’s AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

The Pancyprian Association for Psychotherapists (PAP) was founded on the 6th of February 2013 with the aim to provide a professional and regulatory body with European standards of practice and conduct for all psychotherapists in Cyprus.

The Pancyprian Association for Psychotherapists (PAP) is the National Umbrella Organisation for Psychotherapy in Cyprus. It is also the national awarding body for the European Certificate of Psychotherapy.

Our mission is to consolidate and promote psychotherapy as a free and independent profession. We do this by promoting the widest provision of psychotherapy for the public and encouraging high standards of training, practice, and ongoing education of our members-psychotherapists so as to contribute to public health.

Following the core condition of this mission, PAP prioritizes the continuing development of ethically responsible and self-reflective psychotherapists. The ethical practice of psychotherapy requires that practitioners are responsible for their part in the therapeutic alliance. The work of psychotherapy is based on the principles of alleviating suffering, promoting the well-being of clients, and fundamentally not doing harm.

Our objective is the establishment and monitoring of a National Register and a European Register of accredited psychotherapists in Cyprus. PAP maintains a register of registered and accredited psychotherapists from all over the island and supervises and cooperates with three registered and accredited Training Institutes.

We understand our contribution as being a bridge between those who are looking for psychotherapeutic services and those who provide psychotherapeutic services. Psychotherapy is an effective intervention for good mental and emotional health.

PAP is responsible for :

Promoting and maintaining the highest possible professional standards of training, practice, and professional conduct of psychotherapists and affiliated professionals.
Providing the public with a register of accredited training institutes and qualified psychotherapists (and affiliated professionals) who adhere to continuous professional development (CPD) requirements and a professional code of ethics and practice.
Providing informed advice on matters of psychotherapy to the public, the government and its members.
Providing a facilitating professional environment for its members.
Conferring the European Certificate of Psychotherapy (ECP) to applicants in Cyprus on behalf of the European Association for Psychotherapy.
Representing the majority of psychotherapists in Cyprus to the public, the media, and the government.
Working together and connecting with all relevant governmental and non-governmental Organisations for the promotion of public health.
Promoting the urgency of a regulation (legislation) of the profession of Psychotherapy.