Counsellors Insurance
A helping hand for listening ears with counsellors' insurance from Towergate.
- Cover provided for counsellors for public liability, professional indemnity, product liability, and libel and slander
- Worldwide cover
- UK-based support
Call us on 0330 123 5810 or get a quote online
One of the UK's leading independent insurance brokers
Why choose counsellors insurance with Towergate?
Affordable counsellors insurance in minutes
Specialist cover in five minutes.
Counsellors liability cover
Includes public liability, product liability and libel and slander.
24-hour legal helpline for counsellors
Offering specialist counsellors advice whenever you may need it.
Worldwide counsellors cover
Cover to work anywhere in the world (as long as you are UK based).
About counsellors insurance
Cover for working in a number of different locations
As a counsellor, we know that your job can take you anywhere – so our policy provides cover for working in a variety of locations from your home, clients' homes, over Skype, at events, and more. Or perhaps you run your own practice or have your own premises? We can provide cover for buildings, contents, stock and corresponding business insurance, tailored to your needs.
Professional indemnity
Should the advice or guidance that you give to your clients be incorrect and leads to loss or injury to them, our policies provide professional indemnity to pay for any costs awarded against you, up to £10 million. This can be flexible to your circumstances and we can work with you to ensure you get the cover you need.
Discounts for members of professional bodies
If you’re a member the BACP, we can offer a 10% discount. During your quote, let our advisers know and we’ll take care of the rest.
Additional cover for your business
In addition to our cover for counsellors, we also provide extras such as home business insurance and employers' liability cover so talk with one of our advisers for advice on what else you might need to cover you and your growing business.
When you need to make a claim, we'll guide you through the process and get your claim settled as quickly as possible.
- Find your insurance documents and make sure you have all your information at hand, including your policy number.
- Call the claims team on 0330 123 5921 or email careclaims@towergate.co.uk and explain exactly what happened.
- Provide photos if requested to help us understand what happened as quickly as we can.
Ready to get covered?
- Fill in our online quote form or call us
- Purchase your policy
- Relax - You're covered!
Counsellors insurance FAQs
We do offer loss of income and business interruption insurance as well as various other business insurances but not as part of this package. If you require these covers we can provide them via our business insurance department. One of our advisers will be able to advise you further.
As every profession is open to different risks and claims are unforeseeable events, it’s not possible for us to safely recommend any level of cover. Our best advice, therefore, is to select the highest amount of cover you can reasonably afford. We can, however, offer full flexibility on your policy meaning that if you need to raise or lower the level of cover at any time we can accommodate this easily.
You may want to consider run-off cover to provisionally cover you against any claim made against you for work done while you were practicing. Our advisers will be able to set this up for you at the end of your policy.
Depending on what you are studying and if you are practising you may want to protect yourself against claims. As everyone’s situation is different and claims are unforeseeable we can’t advise either way but would suggest that even though liability and indemnity insurances are not legal requirements you should not leave yourself vulnerable if you think you could open to a civil liability claim. Some member organisations will recommend a specific level of cover, so you may wish to check this if you are a member of a professional body.
This policy is designed to cover the practitioner - not a business or property. If you require these extra covers we can provide them at the same time with a business insurance policy which will offer the relevant cover for your stock, cash and premises.
If you prefer to spread the cost of your annual premium, we offer a quick and easy direct debit scheme. When you choose to pay premiums in instalments, you will be paying under a Premium Finance plan. We will give you full details of the finance provider, and the additional cost of finance, when we provide you with your payment plan quotation. This will include the total payable, the number of monthly instalments and the cost of each, as well as the representative APR.
If you would like to know more about our monthly payment option, please visit our dedicated Direct Debit page.
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