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Promoting the importance of early intervention and access to timely psychological therapies for children, young people and families is a priority for BACP.

Online resources exploring the legal, business, safety and skill requirements of working in private practice. CPD hub+.

Read our members' experiences and your stories of how counselling can help children and young people.

Our response to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Liz Kendall MP, as she promises back to work support

BACP accreditation is the mark of a high quality, professional practitioner training course. It guarantees a standard of training accepted for BACP membership, registration and accreditation. Our course accreditation scheme is temporarily closed and we’re not accepting any new applications at this time.

Open article: "Everyone faces setbacks and disappointments but it is how we deal with them that is key." Regular column from Sandi Mann. Counselling at Work, Spring 2015

‘Counselling can provide a context in which to navigate the complexities of ageing’. Therapy Today, April 2024

We’ve joined with other counselling and mental health organisations to issue a joint statement in support of NHS staff for World Mental Health Day

Gathering evidence: What research tells us. Plus... Breaking point: Colleges in Scotland... SCORE consortium: Counselling and academic outcome... Service wellbeing: Research from University of Bristol... Duty of care: A legal perspective

Therapy for the third act: Empowering later-life clients...plus...Making the most of training supervision // Are we failing families post-adoption? // Why we have to take self-care seriously // The taboo of maternal ambivalence