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What is chronic pain? How does pain affect your mental health? Can counselling help and what types of therapy are best for chronic pain? Our member Elizabeth Turp explains.

Val Watson of BACP Coaching division talks to higher education consultant and integrated coach-therapist, Géraldine Dufour, about how a coaching approach in university counselling is benefitting students’ mental health. University and College Counselling, November 2023

Featuring 'People Not Pathology: freeing therapy from the medical model', Pete Sanders and Janet Tolan (eds); 'Madness at the Movies: understanding mental illness through film', James Charmey(Johns Hopkins University Press); 'The Mystery of Emotions: seeking a theory of what we feel', RD Hinshelwood (Phoenix); 'Music Psychotherapy and Anxiety: social, community and clinical contexts', Rebecca Zarate(Jessica Kingsley Publishers); 'Supporting Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy: qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research', Sofie Bager-Charleson and Alistair McBeath; 'Man Kind: tools for mental health, well-being, and modernizing masculinity', Zachary Gerdes. Therapy Today, November 2023

For registered members who have completed a BACP accredited core training course aligned to column C of the SCoPEd framework or a BACP accredited or approved column C progression training.

Sue Pattison and Maggie Robson, joint Chairs of BACP Children, Young People and Families division, ask you to support our campaign for a paid counsellor in every secondary school, academy and FE college in England

Stories from new mums highlighting how therapy has helped them

How can resilience-based clinical supervision help a team of chaplains working in an NHS hospital to stay well in their work? Sarah Markham, clinical psychologist and Clinical Team Lead at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust hospital shares her experience. BACP Workplace, April 2024

Beneath the surface: Illuminating the radical and beautiful mess of real transformation. Plus... Pioneering spirit: therapeutic coaching in the USA. Working with difference in supervision. Beyond technique: knowing ourselves as coaches. Coaching Today, July 2025. Coaching Today, July 2025

Open article: Recent years have seen a marked increase in digital coaching platforms, many engaging thousands of coaches and becoming billion-dollar businesses. Industry insiders Professor Jonathan Passmore and Dr David Tee explore this new market, offering insights on the leading providers and advice for coaches and therapists choosing a platform. Coaching Today, July 2023

Coaching comes of age: Are coach-therapists leading us towards a bright new world?.. plus How do we manage professional self-doubt?.. Mick Cooper argues that therapists are changing the world... Ethical responses when a client reveals sex addiction... Is phone counselling more intimate?