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Open article: Fee Scott warns against the risks of using casual diagnostic terms in the therapy room. Therapy Today, November 2025.

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.

‘Many of the clients I meet tend to criticise themselves for asking for therapy in the first place.’ Therapy Today, March 2023

Kate Saunders shares the ways that being honest and curious about sex can open up conversations in the counselling room. BACP Children, Young People and Families, December 2023

A fair slice... Will mental health get the funding it needs from the new Government? // Working with suspected coercive control // Do you allow enough silence in the room? // Success strategies for private practice // Why self-exploration is not just for trainees

A map for the journey. Plus: Out of office: the magic of coaching with nature // Research digest: coach and counsellor burnout // Practice: health and wellbeing coaching

Forgiveness in therapy - Guiding the process // The Abrahamic commitment - Action’s role in existentialist anxiety // Healing and cure - Transformation in therapeutic work.

The key takeaways from the conference for me were connection and reflection. Regular column from Mish Seabrook. Private Practice, December 2023

‘That’s so gay!’: Why does LGBT bullying happen and what can we do to make our counselling spaces safe, LGBT+ inclusive environments? // Throw of the dice // Gloriously unready // More doing, less being // Under the eyes of a thousand stars...

We’re pleased to have influenced the House of Commons debate by briefing MPs