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We’re pleased to see so many specific commitments to counselling

Joanna explores trusting your emotions, why feelings are your most powerful guide. BACP Member blogs.

CAMHS into the wild: Innovative programmes for young people which incorporate green and social prescribing. Plus: Resettling refugee children... Overexposed: teen sexting... Can’t not won’t... I’m coming out. BACP Children, Young People & Familes, March 2025.

Open article: Barbara Smith, Carl Dutton and Kaye Richards have developed green and social prescribing for young people, with innovative programmes delivered by CAMHS practitioners and community colleagues. BACP Children, Young People and Families, March 2025.

Growing cross-party support for our policy priorities ahead of the Senedd election

We’ll be submitting evidence to the inquiry about the need for a counsellor in every school

Many people took up gardening during the pandemic to support their psychological wellbeing. Mike Morgan wonders whether it could be a creative response to our mental health crisis. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, April 2023

Four of our General Election policies have been included in Welsh party manifestos published this week

Open article: Therapeutic gardening can help reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, loneliness, social isolation and stress. And there are no side effects, as Ben Thomas explains. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, October 2025.

Our survey found 70% of men would only consider therapy once they reach breaking point