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Good Practice in Action clinical reflections for practice resource on social media and digital technology. Published November 2024. PDF download

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

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: Psychotherapist, coach, supervisor and former Chair of BACP Coaching, Lucy Myers, outlines the history and current practice of therapeutically informed coaching, and offers guidance for dual-trained practitioners. Coaching Today, October 2024

Anne Scoging takes over the regular chair's column to talk about recovering from trauma. Counselling at Work, Summer 2015

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

'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 support call for better access to counselling in schools to help reduce absenteeism

'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