What we can do for you ...
Students
- Find careers information
- Search for a BACP-accredited course
- Look for a student placement
- Find study resources
- Renew your membership online
Practitioners
- Join the BACP Register
- Gain accreditation
- Develop your skills and practice
- Look for career opportunities
- Renew your membership online
Organisations
- Accredit your service
- Accredit your course
- Advertise your vacancies
- Promote your services
- Find training and practice resources
Public
- Find out what therapy is
- See if therapy can help you
- Find a therapist
- Check your therapist is registered
- Get confidential guidance
Latest news
Long waiting times for IAPT ‘unacceptable’
Our response to new figures about waiting times for NHS England’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services
New guidance for members with clients taking prescribed drugs
Prescription of psychiatric drugs has nearly doubled over the past 20 years with more than 20% of the adult UK population prescribed a psychiatric drug last year
Celebrating 50,000 members
We want to mark the occasion by sharing your stories - the people who make our Association what it is.
‘What you say doesn’t have to be perfect’
Our member Jessica Mitchell on talking to someone who is grieving a loved one
‘My counsellor helped me understand what happened in my early life – and accept it’
Zara explains how her counsellor helped her come to terms with a difficult relationship with her mother
Help protect and promote counselling
We're urging our members to ensure the voice of counselling and psychotherapy is heard loud and clear in this General Election
Forthcoming events
Developing your understanding and skills in practice to work with erotic transference and counter-transference
Working With Millennials
BACP Children, Young People and Families conference
From our journals
In focus: Time to talk about medication
Free article: Catherine Jackson reports on new guidance for counsellors on prescribed psychiatric drugs. Therapy Today, December 2019
Managing change, tolerating thresholds
Free article: Adolescence is full of change. Sarah Haywood draws on social anthropology to make sense of the anxiety many young people experience during periods of transition. BACP Children, Young People and Families, December 2019
Student death and the university response
Free article: When a student dies, how can we respond with clarity, compassion and consistency? Deirdre Flynn outlines the importance of a university death response plan. University and College Counselling, November 2019
Find out more about ...
Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions
The Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions came into effect on 1 July 2018. All members commit to complying with the Ethical Framework as part of their terms and conditions of membership.
Ethics hub
Information and resources to support your ethical practice
Professional conduct
Upholding high standards of proficiency and ethical practice within the counselling professions