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Our response to Spring Budget

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

Open article: BACP’s Third Sector Lead, Jeremy Bacon, explains some of the implications for counselling and palliative care, and psychotherapist Kamalyn Kaur invites therapists to reflect on the ethical considerations. Thresholds, January 2026.

Counsellors Matthew Leavesley and Deborah Shakespeare describe their fight for equal pay with their CBT colleagues. Therapy Today, April 2023

Open article: As the UK faces strike action not seen since the 1980s, Nicola Banning explores what worker dissent and unrest could mean for therapists working with employees, employers and EAPs. BACP Workplace, January 2023

‘We’ve made progress in the work we’re doing to bring more therapists into the NHS’. Therapy Today, December 2023

‘The trajectory of the counselling professions is constantly being directed by political influences’ Therapy Today, May 2024

Open article: What’s behind the rise in children not attending school, and how can therapists help? asks Heidi Scrimgeour. Therapy Today, June 2025.

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

Lisa Holley asks for counsellors to have the opportunity to be able to help children process and understand their changing lives