Our response to autumn budget News Published 27 Nov 2025 More Neighbourhood Health Centres are welcome but omission of targeted mental health measures is concerning
Benefits of school counselling highlighted in Westminster debate News Published 14 Oct 2024 Sojan Joesph, Labour MP for Ashford, highlighted our campaign asks in his Westminster debate on World Mental Health day
Contracting between client and counsellor News Published 30 Apr 2025 Sarah Millward explains why contracting between a client and counsellor is so important and a topic that people often ask about. BACP Get help with counselling concerns blog
Cancer About therapy What will help you get through cancer treatments, deal with the anxiety and face the future? Our member Jessica Mitchell talks about how counselling can help people and those who support them.
Government must act now to avoid children and young people's mental health crisis News Published 5 Feb 2025 We support mental health charities' research based call for urgent Government action on children and young people’s mental health services
It changed my life Journals Published 21 Oct 2025 Open article: ‘Therapy helped me finally see myself differently’. Therapy Today, November 2025.
NICE Guideline for depression in adults consultation: Our response News Published 18 Jan 2022 We've raised concerns about the guideline in our response to the consultation
Working in the NHS: the state of children’s services Research Published 1 Jan 2017 Updated 1 Oct 2019 Report of research conducted by BACP, the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP), the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) and the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). PDF download.
Update on the NICE depression in adults guidelines News Published 23 Mar 2018 Further delays to the publication of the NICE guidance
Wrapping up 2025: highlights from our final Board meeting News Published 19 Dec 2025 Season's greetings from all of us at BACP!