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Working with strikes: How should you respond? Also in this issue: The interview: My workplace... Talking menopause... Conversations: How are you working?

Therapy for the third act: Empowering later-life clients...plus...Making the most of training supervision // Are we failing families post-adoption? // Why we have to take self-care seriously // The taboo of maternal ambivalence

Our Anxiety is... campaign aims to help people find a trained professional who can give them support

We provided a briefing ahead of the discussion on the Mental Health and Wellbeing Plan

Our members share tips on coping with children growing out of Christmas traditions

A member of our Universities and Colleges division looks at the realities of practising within a college counselling service, and how counsellors must work with clients with common mental health problems as well as more complex needs.

Open article: Therapeutic gardening can help reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, loneliness, social isolation and stress. And there are no side effects, as Ben Thomas explains. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, October 2025.

What is trauma? What is PTSD? What are the signs? Why do they develop, and how can counselling help? BACP-accredited therapist and trauma specialist Dee Johnson shares her insight.

Open article: ‘Therapy was the first place I learned that I didn’t have to keep myself small’. Therapy Today, March 2026.

Our member Lou Baker explains what social anxiety is, how you can overcome a fear of social situations and how counselling can help you cope.