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Find out what counsellors and psychotherapists do, where they work and how you can become a therapist.

Our members Sarah Urwin and Tracie Holroyd explain what animal-assisted therapy involves and how it can help

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

Open article: ‘Group therapy taught me how to trust myself and others’. Therapy Today, September 2025.

Jess Foster explores championing CYP counselling standards across her multi academy trust. BACP policy

Role description for a Contract Assessor at BACP is to ensure that accreditation decisions are fair, consistent, transparent and defensible.

Counsellors and psychotherapists should be at the centre of plans to increase the NHS mental health workforce

Representation matters - The gypsy, roma, and traveller therapist network. BACP member blogs

Open article: An NHS Talking Therapies service piloted walk-and-talk counselling during the pandemic. It was so successful that it’s now permanently available, as Simon Davies explains. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, October 2024.

BACP welcomes the Education and Health and Social Care Committees' damning response to the Government's green paper on Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision