Shoshana's training was the two-year Advanced Diploma in Humanistic Integrative Counselling at the PATH Center in Jerusalem, which delivers the curriculum developed by CPPD London. CPPD's two-year programme is accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), the UK's professional standards body for the field. The programme requires:
 

• Over 1,000 hours of taught contact time across two years, covering eight therapeutic traditions in depth

• Over 100 supervised client hours 

• A minimum of 40 hours of personal therapy as a client, so the therapist has sat in the other chair

• Weekly individual supervision and weekly peer group supervision throughout training

• Written assignments, presentations with continuous tutor and peer assessment

 
Graduates meet the training criteria for individual accreditation with the BACP, and remain in ongoing supervision and continuing professional development after qualifying.
 
BACP is the largest and most established professional body for counselling and psychotherapy in the UK. It sets the ethical framework, the training standards, and the public register that British, South African and many American Olim recognise as the mark of a properly trained therapist.