How to join FiP

*Please note: Due to illness our phone number has been temporarily suspended. We ask that you email any enquiries to administrator@fip.org.uk. Emails will be responded to as soon as possible. We apologise for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

FiP offers the following categories of membership:

Full clinical membership

Full non-Clinical Membership

Clinical Associate Membership

Retired Membership

FiP is an Organisational Member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and full membership can only be offered to those accredited and registered with the Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis College (CPJA) within UKCP. Holders of a valid European Certificate of Psychotherapy (ECP) awarded by the European Association of Psychotherapy (EAP) may be eligible for full membership. Please follow this link for further information regarding this possibility

To find out more about eligibility, application requirements together with the benefit and costs of each of our membership categories please follow the above links. Each of the above links will also take you to access to the relevant online application process.

I want to become a full member but don’t seem to be eligible what should I do?

FiP is an Accrediting Member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and can confer accreditation with the Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis College (CPJA) and registration with UKCP. Successful accreditation with UKCP(CPJA) confers eligibility for full membership of FiP follow this  link  How to accredit with FiP.

Applications for membership/accreditation may be requested using the online process or by downloading the relevant application form and submitting the completed form together with the relevant documents to:

Jools Rogers, Administrator, FiP, 66 Smirrells Road, Hall Green, Birmingham, B28 0LB
Phone: 07984 348318 

Membership applications: Appeals process

FiP seeks to process applications for membership efficiently and fairly in accordance with its membership criteria, which are aligned to equivalent UKCP/CPJA membership categories.

If an applicant is concerned about the way their application has been considered or with the outcome of their membership application, FiP has an Applications Appeal Procedure via which they can seek an independent review of the decision and related matters. Click here for the appeals procedure.