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What's the difference between coaching and counselling? What are the different types of coaching? The BACP Coaching executive explains what you can expect from coaching and how it can help.

Read our members' experiences and your stories of how counselling can help you through pregnancy, miscarriage and being a new parent.

For awarding organisations who have designed a qualification that enables students to gain competences aligned to column B and C of the SCoPEd framework.

Samoon Tasmim reflects on the dialogues that led to his academic collaborator, Andrzej Jastrzębski, writing a holistic model for integrating spirituality in counselling, and his subsequent experience of piloting his colleague’s model with clients. Thresholds, January 2023

Find out more about substance abuse as a symptom of depression, when to see a therapist and how therapy can help.

Long waiting times for an appointment at a gender identity clinic can have a detrimental impact on the mental health of trans people. CJ Webb believes NHS Talking Therapies services can help. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, April 2024.

The rise of portfolio working: Is this the key to making private practice sustainable?...plus... What you need to know about working with ADHD // Helping new client narratives take root Is therapy failing victims of domestic abuse? // Processing pandemic birth trauma

'I ask them questions such as, what is it like for you to have a counsellor of a similar/different age to you?' Regular column by Manaal Mulla. Thresholds, January 2023

'Given the complexity of the information that AI systems like Chat GPT and Bard can access in seconds, can these systems really help people with mental health issues?.' Regular column from Sandi Mann. BACP Workplace, October 2023

Open article: A wide range of structural and social factors can act as barriers to male students seeking support. Jozef Sen and Dr Claire Wolstenholme from Sheffield Hallam University share their approach to getting men talking. BACP University and College Counselling, September 2025.