We’ve all been affected in different ways, from those remotely self-employed to key workers on the front line and employees who've been furloughed. We hope these blogs will help you share your experiences with and feel more connected to your fellow members.
Our clients and the general public are also facing new and unusual challenges in these strange times. Share your tips and advice on what can help get you through lockdown, social distancing, return to face to face working and the anxiety of the coronavirus crisis.
Latest blogs
The power of music to unlock emotions
Ailsa Smith Thompson describes how music enabled her to hear, see and soothe all her feelings around the coronavirus pandemic
Coronavirus: Living with disability through Covid
Melani Halacre discusses the value of therapy for people living with disability or shielding as we head into another lockdown
ICU dreams
Laura Barnett discusses the importance of dreamwork with coronavirus patients treated in intensive care
Your experiences
For clients
Tell us your story
Have you got a similar story? Have your clients being affected by a new style of practice? How has moving your practice online worked for you? How is lockdown affecting you personally? How are you planning to return to face to face work?
No matter how big or small the change, we’d love to share your blogs on these topics. If you’d like to contribute, please you get in touch with us at communications@bacp.co.uk. We suggest blogs should be around 300 - 500 words and please include a short bio and picture.
From our journals
Inside the long COVID maze
Open article: Karen Rawden shares a psychospiritual perspective on long COVID as spiritual awakening. Thresholds, January 2021
Coping with loss
Open article: Michael Coombes looks to the aftermath of 9/11, for lessons learned in supporting children who are managing loss in the wake of COVID-19. BACP Children, Young People and Families, December 2020
Working through the bardo
Coach and therapist Becky Vincent reflects on the effects of lockdown on her practice, her clients and herself. Coaching Today, October 2020
Related links
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Guidance and resources for members
Coronavirus: Advice for the public
Advice on seeing a therapist during the pandemic, plus tips, advice and coping strategies from our members to help you through these uncertain times
Tackling the mental health consequences of coronavirus
Back our COVID-19 campaign to reaffirm the critical role that counselling and psychotherapy needs to play in supporting the nation through the coronavirus crisis and in helping to repair it afterwards.