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A research project offers drama workshops to support people with young-onset dementia and their carers, as Dr Clive Holmwood, Dr Alison Ward and Dr Gemma Collard Stokes explain. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, April 2023

Open article: ‘Couples therapy helped me understand my need to rescue people’. Therapy Today, June 2024

Open article: Counselling people who have experienced domestic abuse requires a structured approach that understands the risks, challenges and complexities, writes Dr Craig Newman. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, July 2025.

'In 2002 I spent 28 days in rehab for alcohol addiction. The counsellors and the counselling that I experienced there changed my life. I have now been in recovery for more than 21 years'. Therapy Today, March 2024

'We know that the important role coaching has to play in mental wellbeing is being increasingly recognised within the mental health industry, and more widely across the public and private sector' Regular column by Lucy Myers. Coaching Today, October 2023

BACP Healthcare news and resources. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, July 2023.

We're calling for Governments across the UK to overhaul opportunities for investment in employee mental health support

We exist for one simple reason - counselling changes lives. Read about our philosophy, values and strategy.

Good Practice in Action legal resource on record keeping and confidentiality. Last reviewed September 2025. PDF download