The voluntary registration system for psychotherapists in Britain is currently the province of the U.K.C.P. although there is a "confederacy" of psycho-analytic institutions who have split off from the U.K.C.P., the B.C.P. who are in the process of creating a WWW site at: http://www.bcp.org.uk/
The U.K.C.P. works by registering trainings who then recommend that trainees (and some "grandparents" who have been working for so long that they didn't do a formalised training) are (or are not) registerable by the U.K.C.P. itself. The graduate/grandparent then applies to the U.K.C.P. to be put on the register. The U.K.C.P. requires that training organisations have formal codes of ethics and practice and will strike people off the register for failing to live up to these.
The U.K.C.P. register is published by Routledge at £27.50 for the paperback 1997 edition. Routledge have a credit card order line at:
'phone: [+44|0] 1264 342779There is no formal registration body for counsellors though the British Association of Counsellors (B.A.C.) is almost such a position. It registers individuals rather than trainings.