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Pete Sanders argues that counselling can only change lives when it is freed from the medical model. Therapy Today, February 2023

Good Practice in Action contracting for adults in the counselling professions. Published May 2024. PDF download

Good Practice in Action clinical reflections for practice resource. Last reviewed November 2024. PDF download

The wounded healer: How personal pain shapes compassionate practice. BACP member blogs.

In The Gift of Sensitivity – The extraordinary power of emotional engagement in life and work, author and advocate for human emotional potential, Elena Amber offers new perspectives on what it means to be a human in an age of AI. She talks to Nicola Banning about her research, how she came to write her book, and why the world needs our hidden gifts of sensitivity more than ever. BACP Workplace, April 2024.

BACP therapists highlight the symptoms of depression in men and explain how therapy can help. Download our booklet or read our online guide.

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Good Practice in Action fact sheet on working online in the counselling professions. Last reviewed March 2025. PDF download

Artistic and therapeutic practice are twinned in important ways, sharing sensibilities and techniques aimed at making use of what Winnicott called the ‘potential space’, required for human development. For Dominic McLoughlin, creativity is at the heart of the work, allowing for an emphasis on difference, and active meaning-making between the therapeutic couple. University and College Counselling, March 2023

Private practice toolkit - all member resource. PDF download