Objectives

• Promote effective counselling services that are consistent with obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi
• Assist clients to obtain services adequate to their needs
• Develop common policies on counselling issues and transmit comment on these issues to the public, to the government, and to other appropriate authorities
• Ensure the establishment, maintenance and enhancement of professional standards
• To protect and promote the interests and public standing of the counselling profession
• To promote and protect satisfactory conditions of employment in the collective interests of the counselling profession
• Provide a forum for members to discuss matters of common concern
• Promote quality training, supervision and professional development
• Publish such journals, monographs and other publications as the National Executive shall from time to time decide
• Affiliate with national and international organisations of counselling
• Express, through its activities and resource allocations, a strong commitment to reduce the social disadvantages resulting from differences of race, gender, age, class, religion, sexual orientation, and any contravention of human rights.