Membership

For a directory of practitioners who have graduated AAP's 3-Year Certificate Program, please go to:  Directory of AAP Practitioners

We are seeking to foster integration of soul and spirit into the lives and work of mental health professionals as well as into human lives. Too often people are diagnosed with a mental health disorder, then given a pill to “make it go away.” If the diagnosis was correct, the medication might relieve the symptoms; as such we should be aware of how prescribed medications affect the body, soul, and spirit, and their consequences. Research shows that, over the longer term, these interventions decline in effectiveness, often leaving a person in worse shape than before — and, from our point of view, perhaps missing an important learning opportunity underlying the mental health challenge that has occurred in their lives.

Because mainstream psychology is, to a great extent, following a pharmacological path – or toward brief formula-fix-it therapies, anthroposophic psychology makes the opposite case. Instead of a reductionist molecular biological picture of the human being, apparent in the contemporary emphasis on pharmacological treatment, anthroposophic psychology places the psycho-spiritual dimensions of human nature alongside of the physical one as of equal value while distinguishing the soul-spiritual nature from the body. The world is getting more challenging, and we need to ready our souls to meet the challenges of our time.

Membership in AAP includes joining a fellowship of those who are earnestly engaged in exploring the heights, depths and widths of human nature; a community of individuals who are invested in wisely meeting mental health concerns. This is not a membership organization where members vote for board or officers or faculty.

As AAP receives regular requests for referrals, we plan to list professionals in the Practitioner category below.

There are two kinds of membership:

1. Friends of AAP Psychology, who support this work and would like access to Member communications and downloads. $50/year.
   
2. Practitioners. To be listed on our Practitioner Directory (for those seeking help from a counselor or therapist trained in Anthroposophic Psychology), you will be requested to complete a short application upon your membership request.  $90/year

These are three separate Practitioner categories:

A. Practitioners who have completed AAP's Three-Year Certificate Program with a Certificate of  Completion or a Certificate of Completion with Achievement (indicating a capstone project). 

B. Practitioners who are licensed mental health practitioners who have completed AAP's Three Year Certificate Program with a Certificate of Completion or Certificate of Completion with Achievement (indicating a capstone project).

C. Practitioners who have completed a program approved by IFAPA (International Federation of Anthroposophic Psychotherapy Associations).

NOTE: Practitioner Levels are subject to Faculty approval.  Graduates of the AAP Program: follow the instructions below to upgrade your Membership level to Practitioner.

NOTE: A portion of your annual fee is sent to AAMTA (Association of Anthroposophic Medicines & Therapies in America) and to IFAPA (International Federation of Anthroposophic Psychotherapy Associations, based in Dornach, Switzerland).

Use the form below to Join the Association for Anthroposophic Psychology.