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Our new scheme aims to encourage underrepresented groups into the counselling and psychotherapy professions by providing financial support for training

What is online counselling? What is telephone or phone counselling? Our member Rakhi Chand explains how online and phone counselling work.

Research is important for clients, for practitioners and politically to continue to demonstrate that counselling changes lives.

Phone therapy is intimate, accessible and offers the therapeutic asset of visual anonymity, says Sarah Hart. Therapy Today, March 2023

Open article: What might be possible if only we said 'no'? The art and science of saying 'no' is a topic that intrigues Nicola Neath. She explores why so many of us struggle to say ‘no’ at work and how therapists can best support our clients (and ourselves) to use that two-lettered word more easily. BACP Workplace, October 2024.

Open article: Jack Lynch from LGBT+ educational resource provider Pop‘n’Olly asks: Why does LGBT bullying happen and what can we do to make our counselling spaces safe, LGBT+ inclusive environments? BACP Children, Young People and Families, June 2024.

'Work is underway to transform community mental health services.' Regular column from Toby Sweet. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, January 2023

Divisional news, including updates from BACP’s CYPF Lead Jo Holmes and BACP CYPF Executive Committee chair Emma Davies. BACP Children, Young People and Families, September 2023

'We are keen to identify training needs … and want to encourage divisional members to let us know what’s missing … we will be looking to create new ways for young people to have a voice within BACP and across the profession'. BACP Children, Young People and Families, September 2023

Depression can manifest itself physically through exhaustion or lack of energy. We've some tips to help manage exhaustion.