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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

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.

What is stress? How do you deal with stress? BACP member Hansa Pankhania explains how counselling can help.

It’s a question many people of all ages carry secretly: ‘How bad does it have to be before I reach out for therapy?’ BACP member blogs.

Emma Wallen explores why Black clients calculate risk before reaching out to therapy and what genuine cultural competence demands from therapists and services. BACP member blogs.

Man Soo Kim explores the idea that effective therapeutic change begins by restoring a client’s emotional and psychological state before exploring their thoughts, experiences, expectations and values. BACP member blogs.