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A fair slice... Will mental health get the funding it needs from the new Government? // Working with suspected coercive control // Do you allow enough silence in the room? // Success strategies for private practice // Why self-exploration is not just for trainees

Pete English discusses the important role of school counsellors for children's mental health

‘Listening beyond words: In a professional landscape that often prizes clarity, speed and linear progress, drawing invites ambiguity, complexity and spaciousness’. Plus... Relational mindfulness in coaching. Coaching the system: ‘the spaces in between’. The impact of the cost-of-living crisis. Coaching Today, October 2025

Rakhi Chand explores racially minoritised women, misogynoir and the emotional and psychic costs of leadership. BACP member blogs.

‘That’s so gay!’: Why does LGBT bullying happen and what can we do to make our counselling spaces safe, LGBT+ inclusive environments? // Throw of the dice // Gloriously unready // More doing, less being // Under the eyes of a thousand stars...

News and resources from the BACP research team. Therapy Today, February 2023

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

Francine Beadsworth explores the ethics of working with clients with a dementia diagnosis. Therapy Today, May 2024

José Luis Leal writes about the dangers of being misled. Thresholds, April 2023

The theme of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week is action