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A member of our Universities and Colleges division looks at the realities of practising within a college counselling service, and how counsellors must work with clients with common mental health problems as well as more complex needs.

It’s a question many people of all ages carry secretly: ‘How bad does it have to be before I reach out for therapy?’ BACP member blogs.

Our policy on publishing professional conduct decisions

We’re talking to employers about counselling and mental health at a major national conference

Open article: Dixon Chibanda shares an excerpt from his book about harnessing the wisdom of grandmothers to deliver therapeutic healing. Thresholds, July 2025.

What is bullying? What can you do if you, or a loved one, are being bullied? Our members Emma Cullinan and Kemi Omijeh explain how counselling can help both victims and bullies.

'As Chair of HUCS, I have been privileged to be invited to join a number of networks, committees and more recently, the Department for Education’s Higher Education Mental Health Implementation taskforce' University and College Counselling, March 2024

Promoting the skills, experience and value of counsellors and psychotherapists within the NHS, while combating further marginalisation of counselling and psychotherapy, is a priority for BACP.

We’ve hit back at a new report and comments by MP Jeremy Hunt

A central pillar of our campaign work has been to better understand the negative mental health impact of the ongoing cost-of-living crisis on our members, counselling services, clients and the wider population.