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Guidance for members taking the online CoP assessment

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

Francine Beadsworth explores the ethics of working with clients with a dementia diagnosis. Therapy Today, May 2024

Open article: Therapists on social media platforms can inadvertently find themselves becoming mental health influencers, says Ella White. Therapy Today, April 2025.

Open article: The rise of AI in the workplace is not just a technological shift, but a psychological one. Sue Christy considers the role of therapists in supporting our clients. BACP Workplace, April 2026.

‘It’s time to say my goodbyes and express my appreciation to some important people’. Therapy Today, March 2024

Counselling: Too much choice 'In the counselling room, when I see a child who is not rushing to pick up an activity, or one that seems unable to make a decision, I take a step back and ask, ‘What is going on for this child?'. BACP Children, Young People and Families, December 2023

Time to flex? Thinking beyond the weekly 50-minute therapy session... plus What we can learn from resilient clients... How to talk about sex in the therapy room... Do we have to change supervisor?.. Pete Sanders on resisting medicalisation

Open article: ‘Therapy gave me back my life’. Therapy Today, December 2025/January 2026.

If we want to support our clients to think about their relationship with food, we should perhaps first explore our own experience of eating, writes Gerrie Hughes. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, July 2023