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The American Mental Health Counselors Association (abbreviated AMHCA) is an organization of licensed mental health counselors in the United States. Its activities include setting and enforcing standards for education, licensing, and ethics for American mental health counselors. [2]
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Our vision is to position clinical mental health counselors to meet the health care needs of those we serve while advancing the profession. AMHCA is committed to a broad-based, grassroots organization with wide membership participation. The AMHCA board of directors is responsible for the formulation of programs and policies for the association.
AMHCA clinical members are masters level and higher. AMHCA student and professional associate members are emerging professionals. AMHCA associate members are professionals that support mental health counselors.
AMHCA was born in May 1976 when Jim Messina and Nancy Spisso, then director and co-director, respectively, of the Escambia County (Florida) Mental Health Center, were discussing the issue of the lack of a professional organization for community counselors.
Clinical mental health counseling is a healthcare profession addressing issues such as substance abuse, addiction, relational problems, stress management, as well as more serious conditions such as suicidal ideation and acute behavioral disorders.
A mental health counselor (MHC), or counselor (counsellor in British English), is a person who works with individuals and groups to promote optimum mental and emotional health.
