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Psychoanalytic and systems thinking can help us understand workplace anxiety and how the defences it creates show up in the therapy room, says Gabriella Braun. Therapy Today, February 2024

Open article: Recent research reveals that surprisingly high numbers of neurodivergent people are drawn to working in the caring professions, and may be more at risk of experiencing an extreme and debilitating form of burnout. How much do we really know about neurodivergent burnout and its long-term consequences? And, how can therapists best support neurodivergent carers who are facing burnout? Cloie Parfitt shares her findings. BACP Workplace, April 2024

Open article: For those thinking about starting out in private practice, Rick Hughes reflects on the process he went through to evolve his counselling career. Private Practice, March 2025.

Access all areas... The reasonable adjustments that we can all make to open up our practices... plus... Uncovering the real causes of burnout... Supervision and assessing fitness to practise when a client has a life-limiting diagnosis... Is it OK to work under your first name only?

Open article: When working with suicide risk, therapists in private practice have the freedom to define much of their own practice, writes Andrew Reeves. Private Practice, December 2024.

New research shows increase in children's stress

Agnieszka Sikorska is employed as a mental health facilitator in a GP surgery, supporting clients who are waiting to access NHS psychological therapies. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, October 2020

Our members highlight how therapy helps people to cope, grow and thrive

Cordelia Galgut explores how her mother’s death changed her therapeutic perspective. Thresholds, July 2023

Therapists share advice to help parents support children during exam season