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Jonny Ward is a therapist, a first responder, and watch manager for the Fire and Rescue Service, who is also known as The Anxious Firefighter. Bringing 16 years of experience in the fire service, he talks to Nicola Banning about his work educating others, and what he hopes to bring to the BACP Workplace division as he joins the Executive Committee. BACP Workplace, October 2023

Anxious & absent: How therapists can support the rising numbers of parents dealing with emotionally based school avoidance // Supporting resettled refugees // Growing up with dual heritage // Biphobia and bi-erasure // Diagnosis as a route to care. Therapy Today, June 2025

Open article: Donna Taylor knows what it’s like to suffer a mental breakdown and spend time in a psychiatric hospital. She talks to the journal about her experience. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, April 2025.

A framework for developing the knowledge and skills required to deliver PCE-Cfd

‘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

Rakhi Chand explores racially minoritised women, misogynoir and the emotional and psychic costs of leadership. BACP member blogs.

Pete English discusses the important role of school counsellors for children's mental health

‘That’s so gay!’: Why does LGBT bullying happen and what can we do to make our counselling spaces safe, LGBT+ inclusive environments? // Throw of the dice // Gloriously unready // More doing, less being // Under the eyes of a thousand stars...

News and resources from the BACP research team. Therapy Today, February 2023

We're calling for Governments across the UK to overhaul opportunities for investment in employee mental health support