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'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

Poster presentation by Professor Thomas Schroder and Soumya Choudhary

One in five therapists say they’ve seen an increase in clients talking about friendship issues

Open article: ‘Therapy stopped me trying to win every argument’. Therapy Today, July-August 2026.

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.

'I have developed a great deal of loyalty to the service; we do a good job in what at times is a challenging environment'. University and College Counselling, May 2023

Alan Phillips, Vishakha Tripathi and Charlotte Tomlinson explore how genetic counsellors and therapeutic counsellors can work together with individuals referred for testing for inheritable diseases. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, July 2016

Open article: We don’t like to talk about endings or goodbyes at work. But executive leadership coaches, Lizzie Bentley Bowers and Alison Lucas and authors of Good Bye: leading change better by attending to endings, think we need to get better at it.