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A competence framework to recognise and support the roles of workplace counsellors and enhance professional standards

Four of our General Election key policies have been reflected in Scottish party manifestos published this week

Our round-up of the latest events, news and research. Coaching Today, January 2024

Celebrating the achievements of student counselling services. University and College Counselling, May 2023

“Children will pay the price of this failure to fully invest in their educational recovery”

Open article: Emmy van Deurzen offers an existential perspective on trauma and posttraumatic growth. Thresholds, April 2025.

Chris Athanasiadis makes the case for a greater role for psychodynamic psychotherapy in the NHS. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, July 2016

This resource considers some of the complaints we've received around client confidentiality and explores their implications for practice

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Feeling the clientʼs pain. Plus... Trauma work: Helping clients recover from traumatic events... Head space: Support for families of brain injury survivors... Mind’s eye: Meeting the needs of clients with aphantasia