BACP member awards

Our Member event is a dynamic space to reflect on the evolving landscape of the counselling and psychotherapy profession. We're proud to present the winners and highly commended candidates for our BACP Member awards. 

This award celebrates unique, unsung, outstanding and demonstrable impact in communities. This is especially where the work of an individual, team or partnership advances counselling and psychotherapy access, quality and equity to change lives and remove barriers.

Wendy Showell Nicholas

Wendy Showell Nicholas

This award recognises and celebrates exceptional and sustained contributions in a career in counselling and psychotherapy. 

Christopher Butler

Christopher Butler

This award is for work that has made an outstanding and lasting contribution to a particular area for the benefit of people or organisations - rather than a culmination of a career in the profession.

Dr Miriam Donaghy

Dr Miriam Donaghy

This award is to recognise individuals, teams or services who have demonstrably advanced Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in counselling and psychotherapy - through practice innovation, leadership, research, supervision or training and achieved meaningful impact for people and communities

Silva Neves

Silva Neves

This award is aimed at recognising a particularly innovative approach to practice, teaching, research or supervision. The award can be made to a team or project as well as to an individual practitioner, researcher, trainer or supervisor.

Rebecca Wilde

Rebecca Wilde

This award recognises, promotes and rewards good practice by members of BACP. It seeks to salute achievement in the preceding twelve months and to help support the development and continuous improvement of the professional skills and competences of counsellors and psychotherapists.

It's important to recognise the key role that counselling and psychotherapy play within our Society. An award such as this will help to promote the hard work undertaken by colleagues who are ambassadors of the profession.

Satinder Panesar

Michele Crooks

Satinder Panesar

This award recognises, promotes and rewards good practice by members of BACP. It seeks to salute achievement in the preceding twelve months and to help support the development and continuous improvement of the professional skills and competences of counsellors and psychotherapists.

It's important to recognise the key role that counselling and psychotherapy play within our Society. An award such as this will help to promote the hard work undertaken by colleagues who are ambassadors of the profession.

Jo Oxley

Christopher Bello Gresch

Jo Oxley

This award recognises particularly innovative and creative design or delivery and assessment of programmes for the benefit of the student experience, while maintaining or furthering the highest quality of teaching and learning.

BA (hons) Counselling and Psychotherapeutic Relationship team at Warwick University, led by Cathryn MacLeod; Associate Professor of Counselling and Psychotherapy

Foundation degree in Integrative Counselling at Ulster University (delivered at Northern Regional College), Michelle Laverty and Minford McBride

This award recognises a service (or service team) that demonstrates outstanding, ethical, evidence‑based, inclusive and client‑centred counselling or psychotherapy delivery, resulting in meaningful positive impact for clients and communities.

The Atrium Clinic and Therapy Centre team at Oxleas Health Trust and for work in London prisons

The Eaves Counselling and Psychology Ltd, Bridget Walford

This award recognises BACP organisational members who provide outstanding therapeutic services operating within the voluntary, community and not‑for‑profit sector. It celebrates the essential role voluntary and community organisations play in delivering accessible, ethical and high‑quality counselling and psychotherapy to communities - often in contexts of limited funding, rising demand and significant social need.

MumsAid, Dr Miriam Donaghy

The Southmead Project

This award recognises early career practitioners who show exceptional promise, innovation, ethical practice and clear potential to make a significant long‑term contribution to counselling and psychotherapy.

Georgina Sturmer

Georgina Sturmer