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A pathway to private practice: Setting up, developing and maintaining a career in counselling. Plus... Loneliness: society’s most pressing issue... Therapists who self-harm... Setting up in practice outside the UK. Private Practice, March 2025

Clients with extreme intelligence may struggle to build relationships, even in the therapy room, says Sonja Falck. Therapy Today, November 2023

‘Integrating justice, equity, diversity and inclusion into coaching is not only a professional imperative but a moral one'. Plus...What’s the role for AI in coaching?...Therapeutic coaching: your questions answered... Free to choose: existential coaching. Coaching Today, April 2024

'Each student has a complex individual connection to the training'. Regular column from Sue Kegerreis. BACP Children, Young People and Families, September 2023

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

What is seasonal affective disorder (SAD)? What are the signs for SAD? How can counselling help with SAD? Our members Lina Mookerjee and Glenda Roberts explain.

Open article: "For many individuals and groups in the workplace, reacting to single events or changes as they occur and calling that resilience simply isn’t enough any more..." Regular column from Kate Anthony. Counselling at Work, Spring 2015

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

The rise of portfolio working: Is this the key to making private practice sustainable?...plus... What you need to know about working with ADHD // Helping new client narratives take root Is therapy failing victims of domestic abuse? // Processing pandemic birth trauma

This resource considers some of the complaints we've received around competence and fitness to practise, and explores their implications for practice