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Good Practice in Action fact sheet covering accountability and candour. Last reviewed January 2024. PDF download

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

A fair slice... Will mental health get the funding it needs from the new Government? // Working with suspected coercive control // Do you allow enough silence in the room? // Success strategies for private practice // Why self-exploration is not just for trainees

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

Online resources exploring bereavement, loss and grief. CPD hub+.

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

Sign our petition calling for an emergency resilience fund to pay for vital counselling provision now

Counselling: Too much choice 'In the counselling room, when I see a child who is not rushing to pick up an activity, or one that seems unable to make a decision, I take a step back and ask, ‘What is going on for this child?'. BACP Children, Young People and Families, December 2023

Open article: ‘Therapy gave me back my life’. Therapy Today, December 2025/January 2026.

The new Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions 2026 has been launched and will become mandatory on Tuesday 3 November 2026. This page will help you prepare for the transition by providing information about the review process, as well as feedback which helped shape the new framework and supporting resources.