The Ontario Alliance of Mental Health Practitioners (OAMHP, "the Alliance") is an organization of like-minded partners dedicated to the recognition of the counselling and the psychotherapy professions in Ontario.
In fulfilling its mandate, the Alliance promotes the development of policies and practices for the provision of accessible, competent, and accountable counselling and psychotherapy services throughout the human lifespan in a manner sensitive to the pluralistic nature of society.
The Alliance strives to understand the needs of the diverse community of counsellors and psychotherapists in Ontario and aspires to being inclusive in its membership and a strong voice for the promotion of counselling and psychotherapy.
The Ontario Alliance of Mental Health Practitioners (the Alliance) is an umbrella organization whose members are professional associations in the field of mental health. The Alliance was formed to address the issue of regulating counselling and psychotherapy in Ontario.
To be the public voice of non-statutory self-regulating mental health professionals in Ontario. The Alliance will speak to government, related professions, the media and the public alike;
To seek government regulation of non-statutory self-regulating mental health professionals as indispensable members of the health care system in Ontario.