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Counselling: Too much choice 'In the counselling room, when I see a child who is not rushing to pick up an activity, or one that seems unable to make a decision, I take a step back and ask, ‘What is going on for this child?'. BACP Children, Young People and Families, December 2023

Good Practice in Action legal resource on pre-trial therapy. Last reviewed June 2025. PDF download

Report of research conducted by BACP, the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP), the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) and the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). PDF download.

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

'While I was working I took further training at the Tavistock Institute and the Anna Freud Centre, which led me some years later to work primarily as a child and family psychotherapist.'. Therapy Today, April 2024

Open article: Dr Sonya Kurzweil integrates a range of therapeutic models in her guidelines for creating positive endings in child therapy. BACP Children, Young People and Families, December 2025.

Healing the healers: How can we best support NHS staff under pressure?... plus... Considering diversity from a new perspective... How unconscious dynamics manifest online... When self-disclosure is best practice... Reparenting the wounded inner child

When it’s time for goodbye: Integrating a range of therapeutic models to create positive endings in child therapy... Plus: On their own terms ... Intersectionality in practice... Trans teens at the tabletop... Gender stereotypes. BACP Children, Young People & Familes, December 2025.

Sinead Oskan reflects on National Bereaved Parent's Day: Embracing love, loss, and shared healing. BACP member blog