The National Alliance for Counselors©† is dedicated primarily to the advancement of the professional educator, trainer and clinical supervisor within the disciplines of Clinical Mental Health, Psychiatric Treatment, Counseling, Education, Habilitation, Criminal Justice, and etcetera.

This alliance of advanced educators, trainers, and supervisors, provides education, training and supervision to their peers (i.e., serving the same functions) in a variety of sub-disciplines and specialties. The organizational goal is, in part, to advance the status quo of treatment by strategically raising the standards through and by which these professionals are educated, trained and supervised to fulfill the core functions in their respective roles; new standards and tactics to achieve the aforementioned functions are of significant focus to this endeavor.

According to background research, “There is a significant absence of uniform standards for professional educators, trainers and clinical supervisors in several disciplines including the field of Mental Health—particularly, but not exclusively, in the core function activities of Education, Training and Supervision [of Treatment]…. There is an absence of a functioning coalescence-to-standardization mechanism and a unifying/organizing body for ‘multidisciplinary standards of competency in-practice’’. In response to the forgoing conclusion(s), a micro-representative sample of advanced professionals educators, trainers and supervisors formed for the explicit purpose of (a) organizing advanced educators, trainers and clinical supervisors, (b) standardizing the research-based competencies/professional activity functions necessary for heightened professional competence and proficiency, and (c) to develop valid and consistent methods for evaluating the latter (i.e., “b” above) via a certification process.

There is no intention to imply/infer that trainers, educators and supervisors lack proficiency/ competency, individually or collectively in their respective function(s).  Rather, it is due to their competence that they are capable of learning and utilizing complex training, teaching, and supervisory mechanisms and methods.  Therefore, the trainers,  educators and supervisors are also able to simultaneously apply the forgoing in delivering novel and unique training and supervisory content to service delivery personnel(SDP).  Likewise, viewing the SDP as similarly competent, they are capable of learning and simultaneously applying the information and techniques when they are properly trained,  educated, and supervised.

The National Alliance for Counsellors is not affiliated with any other organization or certifying body at this time. If, in the future, such an affiliation is considered, it will be subject to the input of the Certified Membership.

†  The National Alliance for Counsellors© is a division of NAFC Public Services©  --a multinational, non-profit organization exempted from federal income tax, under Section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code as an organization described in Section 501(c) (3).  One of its primary functions is to operate as a Board of Examiners.