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What is chronic pain? How does pain affect your mental health? Can counselling help and what types of therapy are best for chronic pain? Our member Elizabeth Turp explains.

Our directory puts you in touch with 16,000+ BACP registered counsellors offering a range of therapies for adults, children and families. Find a trained professional who can help you.

'There is a deeply unhelpful myth that counselling consists of nice people saying kind things to sad people'. BACP Children, Young People and Families, March 2024

How to offer support and where to get advice.

'I would say that I specialise in addiction and eating disorders, mainly because this is primarily what my clients come to see me about, but I also work with anxiety, depression, relational issues and bereavement'. Therapy Today, May 2024

Matthew Geary replies to questions about his work and what inspires him. Thresholds online, July 2023

Our members share their insight into why we feel lonely at Christmas, and what you can do to help yourself and others who feel this way.

Here you can find answers to some commonly asked questions about promoting your SCoPEd framework column

Open article: Neurodiversity and leadership coach and trainer, Liv Blaney, demonstrates why workplaces urgently need to become more neuroinclusive – and how coaches can help. Coaching Today, January 2026

We’re pleased to see so many specific commitments to counselling