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How important are first impressions? Erik de Haan observes that the opening moments of a coaching session can reveal a wealth of information about our clients – and the relationship we have with them. Coaching Today, January 2020

Are there lessons we could learn from our elders at this critical time? Nicola Banning talks to Helen Kewell, a therapist, writer and organisational consultant, about what she’s learnt from working with older people. BACP Workplace, July 2020

Does the therapy profession attempt to overcompensate for its subjective methods by loading up practitioners with a wall of extra checks and balances? Private Practice, June 2020

Open article: We don’t like to talk about endings or goodbyes at work. But executive leadership coaches, Lizzie Bentley Bowers and Alison Lucas and authors of Good Bye: leading change better by attending to endings, think we need to get better at it.

Stories from new mums highlighting how therapy has helped them

Sharon Watt describes how she managed her first placement client alerting her to a potential terrorism risk. Therapy Today, May 2023

Bruno Condé describes a technique from transactional analysis to give clients agency over the maturing process of their inner child. Therapy Today, December 2023

Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, April 2020

Working an allotment emphasises for me the importance of the community of growers, just as our community as a specific division of BACP enables us to grow our own practice as therapists who coach. Coaching Today, January 2020

Our member Danuta Lipinska discusses dementia and explains how counselling can help both people who have been diagnosed and their family and friends.