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

BACP Coaching is a focus for coaches and coaching within BACP. Our members are counsellors and psychotherapists who work with a variety of models to integrate coaching and counselling.

We’re encouraging members to write to their MP and help shape NICE guidance

We’ve responded to a new Work and Pensions Committee report

Here you can find answers to some commonly asked questions about progression training courses

The Scope of Practice and Education (SCoPEd) framework is a ground-breaking shared standards framework, which sets out the core training, practice and competence requirements for counsellors and psychotherapists working with adults.

What you can do if your accreditation application is deferred or unsuccessful and our processes.

For registered members who also hold current membership with ACC, BPC, NCPS or UKCP aligned to column C of the SCoPEd framework.

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.

The BACP Register is a public record of therapists who meet our standards for registration