The European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP) is a Vienna-based umbrella organisation for 128 psychotherapist organizations (including 32 national associations and 18 European associations) from 43 countries with a membership of more than 120,000 psychotherapists. Individual members may also join the organisation directly rather than through one of its member organisations. 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. 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); the general secretary of the EAP is Tom Warnecke (UK) 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. Important activities include:

Publication

Publication of the International Journal of Psychotherapy, a professional journal with 3 issues per annum.