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We’ve responded to latest NHS data on mental health

This resource considers some of the complaints we've received around boundaries and explores their implications for practice

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.

Angelique da Silva on the unspoken grief of endings in therapy and the marks they leave. BACP member blogs.

13 new accreditation routes now available.

Online communities can raise awareness of mental health issues. But generalised messages often fail to address the complexity of individual experiences, writes Andrew Reeves. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, April 2024.

Open article: Donna Taylor knows what it’s like to suffer a mental breakdown and spend time in a psychiatric hospital. She talks to the journal about her experience. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, April 2025.

Report highlights flexibility of community-based counselling services and the growing demand pressures they face

Sarah Millward explores what therapists are required to record, your rights to access therapy notes, and what happens if notes are destroyed or not kept. BACP Get help with counselling concerns blog