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Encouraging research into counselling and psychotherapy

'Like them or not, digitised mental health and wellbeing platforms are already providing valuable support'. Therapy Today, May 2024

What's the difference between coaching and counselling? What are the different types of coaching? The BACP Coaching executive explains what you can expect from coaching and how it can help.

Exploring the link between addiction and undiagnosed ADHD and autism... plus... Has school counselling lost its voice?... Safeguarding issues in older clients... Racial misidentification in therapy... Working with unexpressed emotions

Our members Sarah Urwin and Tracie Holroyd explain what animal-assisted therapy involves and how it can help

What is seasonal affective disorder (SAD)? What are the signs for SAD? How can counselling help with SAD? Our members Lina Mookerjee and Glenda Roberts explain.

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.

Our membership fees are increasing from 1 April 2025

“We must move beyond treating mental health as a productivity problem”

Our new scheme aims to encourage underrepresented groups into the counselling and psychotherapy professions by providing financial support for training