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Counsellors and psychotherapists should be at the centre of plans to increase the NHS mental health workforce

Promoting the value of counselling with key decision makers across the parliaments and assemblies of the UK

We’re re-opening our equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) mentoring scheme for student members and trainees.

Evidence of our policy influence across most party manifestos ahead of the Scottish Parliament election

Open article: Sam Delaney investigates how well our profession serves those at highest risk of suicide - midlife working-class men. Therapy Today, April 2026.

Counselling can help clients who have fled to the West for safety to understand their complex attachments to their homelands, says Sofia Chanda-Gool. Therapy Today, February 2024

'The proposed strategy recommits to reducing the number and rates of suicide deaths in Wales, as well as establishing clearer pathways of care for people who self-harm and improving support for people bereaved by suicide.' Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, April 2024.

Counselling is fighting to hold onto its place in school-based mental health initiatives, says Marilyn McGowan. Therapy Today, November 2023

A toolkit designed to help the UK counselling and psychotherapy sectors better understand and address race and diversity.

Changing the way we think about anxiety... Therapists get anxiety…and that’s OK... Generational trauma and black identity wounding