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Open article: Emily Alter explores the role of social media in young people’s self-diagnosis, and as a gateway to therapy. BACP Children, Young People and Families, June 2025.

Open article: For those thinking about starting out in private practice, Rick Hughes reflects on the process he went through to evolve his counselling career. Private Practice, March 2025.

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Invest to unlock: mobilising Wales’s counselling and psychotherapy workforce to address unmet need during the Senedd Election 2026.

Open article: Donna Taylor knows what it’s like to suffer a mental breakdown and spend time in a psychiatric hospital. She talks to the journal about her experience. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, April 2025.

Counselling is fighting to hold onto its place in school-based mental health initiatives, says Marilyn McGowan. Therapy Today, November 2023

Analysing the experiences of characters in films can help clients and trainees explore difficult themes, say Jenny Hamilton and Helen Kemp. Therapy Today, February 2024

Jane Moffett explores the cycles of life experienced by women when it comes to the career and life choices they make. Looking at career life cycle through a different lens, she suggests it’s time that employers did too. BACP Workplace, January 2024

Just over a year ago, Juliette Moxham wrote an article for BACP Workplace about why she stepped back from being a headteacher of a primary school in Gloucestershire to retrain as a counsellor. Now a newly qualified counsellor, she is working with the public sector workforce and establishing her private practice. She talks to Nicola Banning about finishing her training and starting out in the profession. BACP Workplace, January 2024

‘Many of the clients I meet tend to criticise themselves for asking for therapy in the first place.’ Therapy Today, March 2023