Australian Counselling Association 2026 Symposium: Exploring Identity in Counselling
Thu, 28 May
|Pullman Melbourne Albert Park
The Australian Counselling Association’s 2026 Identity Symposium is a hybrid professional development event exploring how identity shapes therapeutic work across areas including pregnancy loss, parenting, domestic and family violence, eating disorders, disability, and isolation.
Time & Location
28 May 2026, 8:30 am – 5:30 pm AEST
Pullman Melbourne Albert Park, 65 Queens Rd, Albert Park VIC 3004, Australia
About the event
Peer-to-peer encouragement for VMHPAA members
The Australian Counselling Association (ACA) is presenting its 2026 Identity Symposium on Thursday 28 May 2026in Melbourne and online, with the Annual Counselling Excellence Awards held afterward in person at the Pullman Albert Park Melbourne. The symposium theme is Identity, with the program focused on how identity is shaped, disrupted, and reconstructed across contemporary counselling practice.
For VMHPAA members, this event is useful because identity sits underneath many of the issues practitioners are already working with every day. The program will examine practice areas including pregnancy loss and parenting, domestic and family violence, eating disorders and body image, disability, and isolation, and the day is an evidence-informed professional development opportunity designed to strengthen ethical practice and therapeutic outcomes.
The event also appears to offer a strong mix of accessibility and sector connection. It is being delivered in a hybrid format, includes networking opportunities, and offers 10 OPD points for participation. ACA is also promoting presenters connected with organisations including PANDA, the…