ACTO ACCREDITATION

Online therapy training and professional development with a difference.

AOTT offers unique programs to suit your needs and budget, no matter whether you are a novice, intermediate, or advanced in the online therapy field, there’s a course for everyone!

Built on the principles of ‘reverse engineering’, and accelerated learning, Renée McDonald’s unique courses and course structures has proven a hit for many years and are newly available to ACTO.

Australian Online Therapy Training (AOTT) Pty Ltd is ….Online Therapy training and professional development with a difference!

AOTT offers unique programs to suit your needs and budget, no matter whether you are a novice, intermediate, or advanced in the online therapy field, there’s a course for everyone!

Built on the principles of ‘reverse engineering’, and accelerated learning, Renée McDonald’s unique courses and course structures has proven a hit for many years and are newly available to ACTO.

Australian Online Therapy Training (AOTT) Pty Ltd is spearheaded by Renée McDonald and lead trainer, Annette Eriksen. Both Annette and Renée have extensive experience as clinicians and adult educators in a variety of face-to-face and online environments.

AOTT’s counselling courses online are unique, in that they utilise training, coaching and accelerated learning principles, information-based research, new concepts and unique trademarked information, especially pertaining to Renée’s work, research and practical experience. Essentially, AOTT courses are tailored to your needs in order to survive the modern Online Therapy and Telehealth climate.

AOTT takes a ‘reverse’ approach to learning online to standard and conventional colleges and training programs, whereby there’s an acknowledgement of innate skills and abilities for therapists to adapt, be flexible and attend to the changing demand of the world around them.

This reversal approach results in a ‘steps’ and ‘levels’ approach to learning, whereby learners can dip in and out of the immersive learning environment, and come back to their learning as they choose.

If learners wish to become ACTO members, there are expiry dates on the time limit in which they can achieve the overall certification. This is 12 months from the commencement of their first course with AOTT.
The suite of courses that AOTT offer that are applicable to ACTO membership are;

Level 1 Fundamentals of Online Therapy Course (Level 1 is a pre-requisite for all higher-level courses)
Level 2 Advanced Online Therapy Course (including unique trademarked terms)
Level 3 Online Group Work Skills AND/OR
Level 3A Online Relationship Therapy
Level 4 Online Therapy Process Groups

Once learners have completed Levels 1 through to 4, the practitioner can apply for the full certification of Qualified & Certified Online Practitioner – where the sum total of the courses is the required hours for membership of ACTO. The required hours of ACTO are 80 hours of training from an accredited training organisation. AOTT meets and exceeds this minimum standard.

Level 2A Online Supervision – Using McDonald’s (2018) Online Clinical Supervision research, this is a short intensive course to advance already practising Clinical Supervisors to move seamlessly into the Online Supervision environment.

Social media and existence – Focusing on the ethics, the existential realm and the individual, this is no marketing course. Instead, this particular course allows learners to uncover the hidden nuance, ethical dilemmas and new world existence that lies hidden under the surface of social media for us all.
It is expected that learners who wish to transfer and become ACTO members, complete Levels 1 through to 4, to achieve the training hours required through the suite of courses available.

You can commence training with AOTT today.