It changed my life Journals Published 19 Sep 2025 Open article: ‘Therapy brought me closer to my mum’. Therapy Today, October 2025.
Reflecting on 5 Years Joanna Holmes reflects on five years leading BACP’s CYPF policy work, UK achievements, and her new focus on safeguarding. BACP staff blogs.
Useful links and resources About therapy Information leaflets and links to charities, services and other associations offering support and counselling.
Workplace competences A competence framework to recognise and support the roles of workplace counsellors and enhance professional standards
BACP Register of Counsellors and Psychotherapists The BACP Register is a public record of therapists who meet our standards for registration
Employment In the context of a challenging employment market, driving growth in paid opportunities and bringing employers closer to our professions is a key priority for BACP.
The big issue: Time to dump the ‘dustbin diagnosis’? Journals Published 22 Nov 2024 Open article: Ellie Broughton asks whether a borderline personality disorder diagnosis prevents clients and especially women from getting the help they really need. Therapy Today, December 2024/January 2025.
Practice from a college perspective News Published 16 Feb 2018 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.