An independent UK directory of Psychologists, each verified as HCPC-registered before listing, with ongoing register monitoring.

Each Psychologist on Trusted Psychologists is verified as HCPC-registered, the only category of UK Psychologists regulated by law. Join the waitlist to be first to search when we go live.

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Why we're building this

In the UK, the title ‘Psychologist’ is not legally protected. Members of the public have no easy way to distinguish HCPC-registered Psychologists from practitioners using unprotected titles. Trusted Psychologists exists to make HCPC registration visible; it is a directory the public can rely on and a credible referral route for HCPC-registered Psychologists.

The directory is independent, not affiliated with HCPC, takes no commission on enquiries, and lists Psychologists each verified as HCPC-registered.

Specialisms covered by our Psychologists

The protected titles you can rely on

In the UK, the Health and Care Professions Council regulates nine protected practitioner-psychologist titles. To use any of them legally, a person must be registered with HCPC.

The nine protected titles are:

Practitioner Psychologist
Registered Psychologist
Clinical Psychologist
Counselling Psychologist
Occupational Psychologist
Educational Psychologist
Forensic Psychologist
Health Psychologist
Sport and Exercise Psychologist

This directory lists Practitioner Psychologists registered in clinically-oriented modalities — most commonly Clinical and Counselling Psychologists, and Health Psychologists working in mental health and chronic illness. We do not list registrants whose modality of registration is solely Occupational, Sport and Exercise, or Educational unless they hold a clinical modality alongside.

What HCPC registration involves

HCPC registration is not a one-off qualification. It is an ongoing regulatory relationship that involves:

Threshold standards of proficiency. Every registrant must meet the HCPC’s published standards of proficiency for practitioner Psychologists. These standards set out what HCPC considers necessary to protect members of the public, and cover knowledge, skills, ethics, scope of practice, communication, record-keeping and ongoing professional accountability. The current standards came into effect on 1 September 2023.

Standards of conduct, performance and ethics. All registrants are bound by HCPC’s standards of conduct, performance and ethics, revised in September 2024. These standards include the duty to promote and protect the interests of service users, to communicate appropriately, to work within the limits of one’s knowledge and skills, to maintain confidentiality, to be open when things go wrong, and to be honest and trustworthy.

Continuing Professional Development. Registrants must undertake ongoing professional development and may be selected for HCPC audit at any point. Failure to evidence sufficient development is grounds for removal from the Register.

Public accountability. Anyone — patients, families, employers, fellow professionals — can raise a Fitness to Practise concern with HCPC. HCPC investigates, and can impose sanctions including conditions on practice, suspension, or striking-off. Outcomes are published. Removal from the Register makes use of any protected title a criminal offence.

What this means for you

When you book through this directory, several things are confirmed at the point of listing, with ongoing monitoring of registration status:

They have been trained in psychology to an approved doctoral or equivalent standard
They are accountable to a statutory regulator, not only a professional body they could choose to leave
They are required to work within an evidence-informed framework
They have a duty to maintain confidentiality, manage records appropriately, and behave with honesty and integrity
They are required to recognise the limits of their own competence and to refer on where appropriate
Concerns about their practice can be formally investigated and acted on

None of these things is required of someone offering services under the unregulated titles ‘Psychologist’, ‘therapist’, ‘counsellor’ or ‘psychotherapist’.

Verifying any Psychologist yourself

HCPC publishes a public, free-to-search Register. You can search by name to confirm registration status. Every Psychologist on this directory has their HCPC registration number displayed on their profile, and we encourage you to verify any listing against the HCPC Register before booking.

What HCPC does not do

HCPC does not endorse private directories, including this one. The HCPC Register is the authoritative source. This directory is an independent service that uses the public HCPC Register as the basis of its listings. We are not affiliated with HCPC.

Founder - Joanna Brook

HCPC-registered Clinical Psychologist

My name is Joanna Brook. I am a Chartered Consultant Clinical Psychologist, registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC PYL02753) and I founded Trusted Psychologists in 2026.

I qualified as a Clinical Psychologist in 1992. Most of my career has been spent in the NHS working in specialist tertiary services, including 25 years as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and seven years as Head Psychologist for specialist services in an NHS Trust. Throughout that time, I also worked privately, providing therapy and expert assessment for clients in personal injury, trauma and occupational stress. In late 2023 I left the NHS to focus on my private practice, Nexus Psychological Services.

Across more than thirty years of clinical work, I have seen the same problem from two sides. As a senior NHS clinician, I sat on national commissioning groups making decisions about how mental health budgets are spent and how services are delivered. As a private therapist, I have seen what arrives at my door when those services fall short: people who have been in therapy with someone they trusted, often for months, and who have not been helped, sometimes worse.

In a meaningful number of those cases, the person providing therapy was not a regulated practitioner. They had used a title (therapist, counsellor, psychologist) that the public reasonably assumes signals training and accountability. In the UK, none of those titles requires either.

Guidance & Resources

Trauma and PTSD: HCPC-registered Psychologists who specialise in evidence-based trauma therapy

OCD: HCPC-registered Psychologists trained in evidence-based interventions

Eating disorders: HCPC-registered Psychologists with specialist training in evidence-based treatment

Start your Professional Journey with Trusted Psychologists

Trusted Psychologists is currently onboarding its founding cohort. We’re inviting HCPC-registered Psychologists to be part of the directory from the start with lifetime free membership, founding-member recognition, and a voice in how the platform develops.