Ebb and Flow: One Year on from The Turning Tide: Pluralism and Partnership in Psychotherapy in Aotearoa New Zealand

Abstract

These notes provide an update on the situation regarding the state registration of psychotherapists in Aotearoa New Zealand, and the attempts of the Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand to extend its “regulatory regime”, without consultation, to include scopes of practice, such as educator/trainer, beyond the clinical scopes of practice, and not to approve supervisors who are not registered health practitioners and who are critical of statutory regulation. Differing approaches to and politics of regulation are presented in relation to a taxonomy of models of regulation. Finally, in the fight against the state control and regulation of psychotherapy, the author reports some good news!