The European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP) is a Vienna-based umbrella organisation for some 430 European psychotherapist organizations (including 33 national associations, 18 European associations and 80 EAP accredited training institutes) from 43 countries with a membership of more than 120,000 psychotherapists.
The EAP has sponsored much of the European effort from the mid-1990s toward the professionalisation of psychotherapy and the formation of pan-European training standards, ethics and guidelines.
[2] A submission to the European Commission to establish the Common Training Framework for the Profession of Psychotherapist is currently in process (2021).
The President of EAP is Irena Bezić (Croatia);[1] the general secretary of the EAP is Tom Warnecke (UK)[3] The association is based on the Strasbourg Declaration on Psychotherapy of 1990 whereby the EAP promotes the need for high standards of training on a scientific basis, and fights for free and independent exercise of psychotherapy in Europe.
[4] Important activities include: Publication of the International Journal of Psychotherapy ISSN 1356-9082, a professional journal with 3 issues per annum.