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Open article: How should we respond to changing client expectations about therapy? Sally Brown investigates. Therapy Today, February 2026.

Ahead of Parent Mental Health Day, our therapists share what you can do to make it easier and more enjoyable.

We believe that a paid counsellor should be available in every primary, secondary school, academy and FE college in England.

Open article: Dr Sonya Kurzweil integrates a range of therapeutic models in her guidelines for creating positive endings in child therapy. BACP Children, Young People and Families, December 2025.

Videos, FAQs and resources to support members in working with this section of the Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions

To enable previous or current senior accredited members (awarded prior to 2023) to move to our revised senior accredited membership category, where they have the skills, knowledge and training to do so.

BACP and the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP) have a connection with each other’s counsellor and psychotherapist accreditation schemes.

Research by Ella Lusted

Guidelines for members on the interview process

A recognition of prior learning (RPL) route that’s temporarily available for previous senior accredited members (awarded prior to 2023), now accredited members, who were unable to apply for our revised senior accredited membership category during the SCoPEd transition period.