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Videos, FAQs and resources to support members in working with this section of the Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions

To enable previous or current senior accredited members (awarded prior to 2023) to move to our revised senior accredited membership category, where they have the skills, knowledge and training to do so.

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

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: Coach and supervisor Pearl Tran demonstrates how the use of drawing in her practice has transformed her sessions with clients and supervisees. Coaching Today, October 2025

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