International Association of Philophonetics & Psychophonetics Psychotherapy

The International Association of Philophonetics & Psychophonetics Psychotherapy seeks to promote the study of Philophonetics, Psychophonetics counselling and psychotherapy and its practice and to advance the ethical practice of Psychophonetics psychotherapy across a range of settings encouraging human, environmental and spiritual wellbeing. It seeks to create, maintain and to develop a professionally-based association which is inclusive, representative, holistic and respectful on all levels of being.


The association is an association of professionals who are qualified as Philophonetics and Psychophonetics psychotherapy practitioners or who have graduated with a Diploma in Applied Philophonetics in a specialized field. It was initially first formed as an informal association in Melbourne in 1997 after the first group of practitioners had graduated with the Diploma of Philophonetics- Counselling Practitioner. The process to establish a professional association has been in progress since then with the first draft of the founding constitution distributed in March 2000.


There are currently 3 branches of Persephone College with students completing their 3rd year of training, in Melbourne and South Africa, to become qualified Psychophonetics practitioners.


The motivation to formalise the association by 2005 arose from the big increase in the number of new graduates by 2005; developments in the field of counselling and psychotherapy; registration requirements; to uphold professional standards, codes of practice and a desire to create a collegial and social forum between centres and practitioners across Australia and South Africa.