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'What I have found myself reflecting on recently is how supervisors, used to working with counsellors, can best adapt our skills to support those who fall outside of our usual services'. Regular column from Elizabeth Holt. BACP Children, Young People and Families, September 2023

We talk to children and young people’s therapist and trainer, Pete English, about the things that inspire him. Thresholds, July 2023

Information from previous BACP research conferences

'Do we understand a client by trying to comprehend their world from their point of view or by looking objectively at it from the outside?' University and College Counselling, March 2023

News and resources from the BACP Research team. Therapy Today, December 2023

Develop your confidence in working with suicidal clients by exploring risk of suicide through dialogue. A video resource linked to Good Practice in Action fact sheet 042.

Online counselling sat on the fringes of therapeutic work until the COVID pandemic forced us to find new ways of working. Few of us were prepared for or were sufficiently trained to adapt to this new way of working. Rick Hughes interviews Sarah Worley-James about the brave new world of online counselling. University and College Counselling, March 2023

Bruno Condé describes a technique from transactional analysis to give clients agency over the maturing process of their inner child. Therapy Today, December 2023

Phyllis Coulter encourages us to use available neurological science to facilitate a working alliance with young people who might otherwise not be able to access counselling. BACP Children, Young People and Families, June 2018