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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.

Open article: If we are to support people living with Parkinson’s disease, we must understand the importance not only of the motor symptoms but also of the psychological effects, as Deirdre Daly explains. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, January 2026.

It’s a vital part of our commitment under the Ethical Framework – yet how much do we really think about what true self-care means? asks Geraldine Meadows. Therapy Today, April 2024

The data provides a clearer picture of the partners' members.

Psychotherapist and writer, Matthew Johnston, asks difficult questions about race, power and silence in the therapy room.

A competence framework and curriculum to develop professional standards for coaching practitioners

Promoting the skills, experience and value of counsellors and psychotherapists within the NHS, while combating further marginalisation of counselling and psychotherapy, is a priority for BACP.

We’ve joined a campaign to change the Victims and Prisoners Bill

A framework and curriculum to support training and practice in online and phone therapy (formerly telephone and e-counselling competences and curricula)

BACP accreditation is a well-recognised and valued quality status for practitioners, services and training courses.