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A quick guide to the UK General Data Protection Regulation and Data Protection Act 2018.

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

'The proposed strategy recommits to reducing the number and rates of suicide deaths in Wales, as well as establishing clearer pathways of care for people who self-harm and improving support for people bereaved by suicide.' Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, April 2024.

We’ll be submitting evidence to the inquiry about the need for a counsellor in every school

These routes will enable accredited members to move to our senior accredited membership category, where they have the skills, knowledge and training to do so.

Open article: Psychosis typically emerges for the first time in young adulthood. Dr George Salaminios explores the importance of early intervention in college and university counselling and the rationale for therapeutically targeting dysfunctions in mentalizing. BACP University and College Counselling, March 2026.

Sue Steer shares the ways she uses both traditional and creative methods to help children tell their stories. BACP Children, Young People and Families, March 2024.

'Our clients usually come to us because they want something to change. It might be their outlook, their responses or their self-perception’ Regular column from Judy Stafford. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, July 2023

Therapists must be wary of pressing their point of view about what’s going on in someone’s life in ways that could be experienced… as overbearing…' Regular column by Sarah Van Gogh. Private Practice, June 2023

Richard Tyler explores how poetry can transform the therapy process. BACP member blogs.