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Menopause affects half the working population. As a menopause coach, I feel it’s important that my clients are aware of the impact it can have on them, and that they don’t have to just ‘put up with it’. Coaching Today, April 2024.

BACP Healthcare news and resources. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, July 2023.

The meaning of words used within the Ethical Guidelines for Research in the Counselling Professions

Exploring the risk of inadvertent harm to autistic clients, and why I’m advocating for systemic change. BACP Member blogs.

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Research is important for clients, for practitioners and politically to continue to demonstrate that counselling changes lives.

Featuring 'The COVID Trail: psychodynamic explorations', Halina Brunning and Olya Khaleelee; 'The CBT Companion: CBT-based models and worksheets for practitioners and clients', Benjamin E Cook; 'Autistic Phenomena and Unrepresented States: explorations in the emergence of self', Howard B Levine and Jani SantamarÍa; 'Hoarding Disorder: a comprehensive clinical guide', Carolyn I Rodriguez and Randy O Frost; 'Online Counselling: an essential guide', Sarah Worley-James and 'Living with Extreme Intelligence: developing essential communication skills', Sonja Falck. Therapy Today, September 2023

In her new book, Online Counselling: an essential guide, author Sarah Worley-James talks to Nicola Banning about her love of working online and why she wrote a nuts-and-bolts guide to help our profession do it better. BACP Workplace, January 2023