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A fair slice... Will mental health get the funding it needs from the new Government? // Working with suspected coercive control // Do you allow enough silence in the room? // Success strategies for private practice // Why self-exploration is not just for trainees

In The Gift of Sensitivity – The extraordinary power of emotional engagement in life and work, author and advocate for human emotional potential, Elena Amber offers new perspectives on what it means to be a human in an age of AI. She talks to Nicola Banning about her research, how she came to write her book, and why the world needs our hidden gifts of sensitivity more than ever. BACP Workplace, April 2024.

BACP accreditation is the mark of a high quality, professional practitioner training course. It guarantees a standard of training accepted for BACP membership, registration and accreditation. Our course accreditation scheme is temporarily closed and we’re not accepting any new applications at this time.

Further delays to the publication of the NICE guidance

Why do one in four women in the UK need to leave their jobs due to the menopause? In a new series of conversations about the menopause at work, Helen Kewell explores what lies behind this statistic and finds potential for growth and regeneration. BACP Workplace, January 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?

I work for a local counselling service and have been referred a new client who would like to come for help with issues around loss of identity, low mood and anxiety after having a baby. Our Ethics team and Therapy Today readers consider this month’s dilemma. Therapy Today, September 2023

In her new book, Ageing Upwards, author Berit Lewis explores how, instead of resisting ageing, we might embrace later life and take responsibility for our own ageing process. She talks to Nicola Banning about how it might look and feel if we did. BACP Workplace, April 2023

'Each new cohort of students who we welcome in September will have been affected at a different time in their emotional development...' Regular column from Mary Jones. University and College Counselling, March 2023

Open article: Social media platforms open new ways for private practitioners to connect across the country, and the world, argue Caz Binstead and Nicholas Sarantakis. Private Practice, June 2025.