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How we uphold high standards of proficiency and ethical practice within the counselling professions.

The menopause can bring with it significant physical and psychological changes and take its toll on women’s mental health. Our members Emma Cullinan and Michèle Down look at how therapy can help.

Open article: Donna Taylor knows what it’s like to suffer a mental breakdown and spend time in a psychiatric hospital. She talks to the journal about her experience. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, April 2025.

Nathaniel G. Oke on the barriers, stigma, and healing journeys of Black men in therapy. BACP member blogs.

BACP’s work to protect the public and to maintain public confidence in the profession is at the heart of everything we do.

It’s important that our members take the opportunity to respond to the ongoing consultation on NICE’s Depression Guidelines, which closes at 5pm on 12 September 2017.

Alwyn Li is to step down from our Board of Trustees

Our response to Mental Health Strategy funding review in Northern Ireland

Open article: Postnatal trauma is still largely unrecognised and untreated - particularly in black women, says Micha Frazer-Carroll. Therapy Today, October 2024.

'Patterns of life and work for humanitarian workers have been likened to addiction'. Therapy Today, September 2023