What title to become a philosophical counselor?

First of all, please note that APPA does not train or certify “coaches”.  Nowhere on our website will you find any mention of philosophical coaching, unless it happens that some of our practitioners are also separately trained as coaches.  APPA-certified practitioners offer philosophical counseling, facilitation, and consulting services.

We believe that people who render professional medical services ought to have advanced degrees in medicine; legal services, advanced degrees in law; psychological services, advanced degrees in psychology; philosophical services, advanced degrees in philosophy. Hopefully you get the point. The main purpose of all such “gate-keeping” is to insure reputable and ethical professional service provision, and indirectly to protect the public from disreputable providers by offering services from trustworthy providers.

If you wish to call yourself a philosopher, or a coach, or a philosophical coach, you are at perfect liberty to do so. But in order to call yourself an APPA-Certified Philosophical Practitioner, you have to satisfy APPA’s criteria.  You are also at perfect liberty to form your own association, according to your own chosen criteria. I hope this answer helps, and thanks for asking.