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

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.

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

Open article: Therapeutic coach Ali Pember explains why understanding matrescence (the transition to motherhood) is vital if we are to truly support mothers through coaching. Coaching Today, July 2024.

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

Open article: Andy Cross and Tessa Tilbe write about the development of ‘climbing for wellbeing’, otherwise known as ‘bouldering therapy’, at the University of Cumbria. University and College Counselling, March 2025.

For registered members who’ve successfully completed core training that meets the eligibility for individual accreditation but haven’t completed either a BACP accredited course or a BACP accredited or approved progression training course aligned to column B of the SCoPEd framework since initial qualification.