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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.

BACP and the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP) have a connection with each other’s counsellor and psychotherapist accreditation schemes.

Extra £7 million funding announced for children and young people’s community mental health services

Training to be a therapist helped Kat Moran process the impact of her dad’s transition. Therapy Today, April 2023

If we want to support our clients to think about their relationship with food, we should perhaps first explore our own experience of eating, writes Gerrie Hughes. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, July 2023

Open article: When working with suicide risk, therapists in private practice have the freedom to define much of their own practice, writes Andrew Reeves. Private Practice, December 2024.

And does it deter clients from seeking help? asks Sasha Bates. Therapy Today, March 2023

Changing the way she referred to herself was key to accepting her neurodivergence, says Liz Driscoll. Therapy Today, November 2023

Bereavement counsellors and therapists have shared how grief can impact people in different and surprising ways

Applying for course accreditation requires clear evidence that you meet all the criteria, followed by a quality assurance visit.