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Report highlights flexibility of community-based counselling services and the growing demand pressures they face

Open article: News and resources from the BACP Research team. Therapy Today, September 2024.

For counsellors and psychotherapists in further and higher education. The quarterly professional journal of BACP Universities and Colleges division.

Bridging the gap. Why research matters for every practitioner // Decolonising the therapy room // Sex, shame, and childhood trauma // Working with antenatal anxiety // Is supervision training necessary? Therapy Today, March 2025

‘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

Elaine Beaumont considers how compassionate mind training could help student healthcare practitioners cope with the demands of clinical care. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, July 2016

Open article: When working with suicide risk, therapists in private practice have the freedom to define much of their own practice, writes Andrew Reeves. Private Practice, December 2024.

For accredited members who’ve not completed the required Level 7 counselling and psychotherapy qualification or a BACP accredited or approved progression training course aligned to column C of the SCoPEd framework.

Therapy can be challenging, but with the right support it’s life-changing.

This resource considers some of the complaints we've received around ending therapy and explores their implications for practice