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Journey to the core: nurturing connection and empathy in the counselling space. BACP member blogs

Alistair Ross considers how a cancer diagnosis impacts the soul. Thresholds, January 2023

Open article: Ragini Jha makes the case for how counsellors must consider the challenges of racism, as well as social and financial barriers, when supporting international students. University and College Counselling, May 2025.

Open article: Andrew Balfour describes an intervention that recognises the importance of relationships and of working not only with people with dementia but also their partners. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, April 2023

'…we all have a deep need to work together, to share, compare, admire, critique, explore, learn.' Private Practice, March 2023

"...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

Beverley Costa describes a model for training non-clinicians to facilitate reflective practice support. Therapy Today, February 2023

'Quite apart from income and expenses, it’s... worth asking what has provided our ‘emotional’ income streams...' Private Practice, June 2023

Christopher Steed sets out a therapeutic model rooted in a person’s need for relationship, embodied experience, meaning and agency. Thresholds, April 2023

Helping clients with a lifelimiting diagnosis consider death and ways to approach dying is a privilege, says Jenny England. Therapy Today, May 2023