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What are phobias and how can you overcome them? Counsellor Lorraine Collins examines what causes phobias, the symptoms  and how counselling can help.

…is it OK to afford an exotic holiday and not pay more than the bare minimum (just into double figures) for therapy? Private Practice, March 2023

Develop your business skills with free online business courses for members, specially selected from OpenLearn, a learning platform delivered by The Open University.

Open article: Marilyn McGowan considers the benefits of radio-controlled cars in counselling with boys who have experienced trauma. BACP Children, Young People and Families, March 2023

Open article: ‘Therapy was the first place I learned that I didn’t have to keep myself small’. Therapy Today, March 2026.

…I find Sally’s sense of entitlement staggering. I glance through the window at her car, a newish hybrid – a gift from her parents. Private Practice, June 2023

As part of our commitment to demonstrate the importance of counselling and its wider impact, we’re excited to share our Year of impact report.

What is sexual abuse? How can you overcome the trauma of abuse? Our member Jayne Booth explains how therapy can help survivors.

Counselling can help clients who have fled to the West for safety to understand their complex attachments to their homelands, says Sofia Chanda-Gool. Therapy Today, February 2024

A new year calls for some new thinking, and the question I’ve been pondering is: how well is our profession making hybrid working work? BACP Workplace, January 2023