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A report by Unite Students, in collaboration with Freya Selman from the Bristol University Neurodiversity Society, highlights the need for action around neurodiversity. University and College Counselling, May 2023

We welcome new certificate recognising baby loss before 24 weeks’ gestation.

NHS workers: how therapy can help. Plus... Stroke patients: Working with the psychological effects of stroke... Psychiatric ward: What it’s like to be admitted, by a former patient... Food stories: Why we need to explore our experience of eating.

In a co-authored article by members of the Parent Carer Trauma Working Group, Joanna Griffin, Ellie Finch, Megan Yakeley, Naomi Bonger and Poppy Villierezz draw on their combined personal, clinical and academic experience to raise awareness of trauma in SEND parent carers. BACP Children, Young People and Families, December 2023

Open article: We don’t like to talk about endings or goodbyes at work. But executive leadership coaches, Lizzie Bentley Bowers and Alison Lucas and authors of Good Bye: leading change better by attending to endings, think we need to get better at it.

Jane Moffett explores the cycles of life experienced by women when it comes to the career and life choices they make. Looking at career life cycle through a different lens, she suggests it’s time that employers did too. BACP Workplace, January 2024

I work for a local counselling service and have been referred a new client who would like to come for help with issues around loss of identity, low mood and anxiety after having a baby. Our Ethics team and Therapy Today readers consider this month’s dilemma. Therapy Today, September 2023

Open article: Postnatal trauma is still largely unrecognised and untreated - particularly in black women, says Micha Frazer-Carroll. Therapy Today, October 2024.

Open article: In comparison to postnatal depression, postnatal anxiety (PNA) is under-recognised, with a recent study revealing it’s an unfamiliar concept among professionals involved in maternal care. Regular column from Dr Claire Oakeley. Private Practice, December 2023

Open article: Therapy has a crucial part to play in empowering the ageing population and fighting cultural stereotypes and discrimination, says Helen Kewell. Therapy Today, April 2024