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Our response to reports of planned cuts and closures across NHS mental health services in England

Open article: How should we respond to changing client expectations about therapy? Sally Brown investigates. Therapy Today, February 2026.

What is redundancy and why does it happen? How can it affect your mental health? BACP registered Simon Coombs shares his insights and explains how counselling can help.

How music heals. Plus... Body dysmorphia: Exploring the client's underlying feelings of shame... Transgender lives: Is hostility creeping into the therapy room?... Risk awareness: The impact of social media on our mental health

Commitments to improve mental health support in schools and on the NHS are featured

Chris Athanasiadis makes the case for a greater role for psychodynamic psychotherapy in the NHS. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, July 2016

Open article: Trainee therapist, Ruqaiyyah Najib calls for the therapy profession to prioritise culturally competent training. Thresholds, October 2024.

'How many forms of discrimination are present in our profession without us being aware of them?' Therapy Today, April 2024

We’ve issued a statement about an article for our BACP Workplace journal

Investment in early-intervention and prevention: Addressing the unequal partnership between third sector counselling services and the NHS.