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'One of my specialist areas of interest is working with diasporan clients of black, African and African-Caribbean heritage'. Therapy Today, February 2024

Black women & birth trauma... Why postnatal PTSD still goes unrecognised // Working with black queer men // Helping a client let go with love // Compassionate race conversations // Are placements fit for purpose?

Open article: Foluke Taylor talks with Sarah Van Gogh about therapeutic writing, black feminisms and making space. Private Practice, March 2023

Help! What do I need to do now? BACP Private Practice Conference 2024 special issue. Plus... The practitioner who survives and thrives... Working with suicide risk... Connecting with black clients. Private Practice, December 2024.

Challenges, barriers, progress & hope: What's changed for black practitioners five years on from George Floyd? Reclaiming your name // Being the child of a therapist // Maternity leave as a private practitioner // Energy work in therapy. Therapy Today, October 2025

Rakhi Chand explores racially minoritised women, misogynoir and the emotional and psychic costs of leadership. BACP member blogs.

Details of the research projects being undertaken by recipients of the BACP PhD studentships

We’re funding our members to deliver projects to improve access to counselling for people from marginalised and racialised community backgrounds.

Open article: News and resources from the BACP Research team. Therapy Today, October 2024.

Psychotherapist and writer, Matthew Johnston, asks difficult questions about race, power and silence in the therapy room.