More than 40 counselling leaders and representatives from every world region gathered for the IAC Associations’ Roundtable on June 29, 2024, during the annual conference in Naples, Italy.

IAC President Bill Borgen opened the meeting by reaffirming IAC's mission, vision, and core values. Referring to a central component of IAC's strategic plan, he emphasized IAC's role as an association of associations, which enables IAC to be a conduit toward the development of counselling and an official consultant to the United Nations to impact policy and practice. Dr. Borgen also summarized other key IAC inititatives, including developing more robust regional representation, collaborating with the American Mental Health Counselling Association (AMHCA) to address online counseling standards and practice, and working with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA) to promote policy development, research, and exchange of information regarding climate change counselling.

Breakout groups addressed a range of counseling topics with global impacts, including licensing, standards, recognition, training, identity, awareness, AI, telehealth, scope of practice, international standards and guidelines, and international partnerships, collaboration, and trans-educational opportunities.