Wrapping up 2025: highlights from our final Board meeting News Published 19 Dec 2025 Season's greetings from all of us at BACP!
Why does the media get therapy so wrong? Journals Published 20 Feb 2023 And does it deter clients from seeking help? asks Sasha Bates. Therapy Today, March 2023
Divisional and BACP news Journals Published 27 Mar 2024 Including updates from BACP Spirituality division and a network round up. Thresholds, April 2024
The role of judgment in psychotherapy Journals Published 9 Jun 2023 Judgment is a factor in both cognitivist and psychoanalytic theory and, rather than standing poles apart, a cognitivist and a Freudian perspective have something of value to offer each other, argues Neill Bartlett. Private Practice, June 2023
Matrescence matters: helping clients navigate the motherhood transition Journals Published 29 Jul 2024 Open article: Therapeutic coach Ali Pember explains why understanding matrescence (the transition to motherhood) is vital if we are to truly support mothers through coaching. Coaching Today, July 2024.
‘I cannot behave like oil or water when I am neither. I am both’ Journals Published 28 Aug 2025 Open article: We have an ethical responsibility to address systemic prejudice and discrimination, including monoracism, wherever it appears, advocates Mary-Claire Wilson. Private Practice, September 2025.
Time to say ‘goodbye' the grace and grief of endings at work Journals Published 8 Jan 2026 Open article: We don’t like to talk about endings or goodbyes at work. But executive leadership coaches, Lizzie Bentley Bowers and Alison Lucas and authors of Good Bye: leading change better by attending to endings, think we need to get better at it.
Let's talk about death and dying Journals Published 20 Oct 2023 Open article: Uma Thomas draws on her experience of working with people who are dying to encourage us to consider some of the complexities and rewards of counselling clients at the end of life. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, October 2023
Boredom: creativity's nemesis Journals Published 15 Mar 2023 When we jettison something vital inside us or have something taken away, boredom often comes to the fore, writes Jeff Weston. Private Practice, March 2023
On whose authority? Leadership, power and gender in a university support service Journals Published 15 May 2026 Open article: David Sibley and Midge Seymour-Roots apply a systems psychodynamic lens to a service undergoing change. BACP University and College Counselling, May 2026.