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For Stress Awareness month, our members share their insight on how to cope with the stress of mess

"...empowering identifications with peers can help a young person to forge new connections beyond the inevitable hierarchies of their relationships with adults." Regular column from Lucy-Jean Lloyd. BACP Children, Young People and Families, March 2023

Online counselling sat on the fringes of therapeutic work until the COVID pandemic forced us to find new ways of working. Few of us were prepared for or were sufficiently trained to adapt to this new way of working. Rick Hughes interviews Sarah Worley-James about the brave new world of online counselling. University and College Counselling, March 2023

The metaphor of a kidnapper can be useful when working with people who suffer from intrusive thoughts about harm befalling a loved one, as Dr Daren Lee explains. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, October 2023

Under pressure: Can low-cost counselling services survive?... plus... Helping clients deal with workplace anxiety // The therapeutic power of watching films // Working with the impact of war trauma // The pros and cons of joining online groups

Beneath the surface: Illuminating the radical and beautiful mess of real transformation. Plus... Pioneering spirit: therapeutic coaching in the USA. Working with difference in supervision. Beyond technique: knowing ourselves as coaches. Coaching Today, July 2025. Coaching Today, July 2025

Are you GSRD competent? Ethical working with gender, sexual and relationship diversity... plus... Understanding the impact of minority stress... Relationship anarchy in the therapy room... Myth-busting the risks of affirmative care... When emotional disturbance presents as physical illness.

Open article: Therapy can help clients recognise the unexpected ways trauma shows up in their lives, says Philippa Smethurst. Therapy Today, December 2024/January 2025.

Jane Moffett explores the cycles of life experienced by women when it comes to the career and life choices they make. Looking at career life cycle through a different lens, she suggests it’s time that employers did too. BACP Workplace, January 2024

'The whole coach-therapist journey has been significant for me –not just because of the complete change in the direction of my career'. Coaching Today, October 2023