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Some people feel such a strong compulsion to help others that they are unable to acknowledge their own needs. Jess Baker and Rod Vincent call it super-helper syndrome – and therapists are particularly prone. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, January 2023

News from the BACP Spirituality division. Thresholds, April 2023

Open article: Alix Fox explores perceived problematic pornography use: the issues, the arguments and how to respond. Therapy Today, November 2025.

Body dysmorphic disorder... Domestic abuse... Non-dual psychotherapy

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We asked our members what stress is, why it happens and what you can do to help.

Discounted courses for BACP counsellors and psychotherapists informed by our Online and Phone Therapy (OPT) competency framework.

Open article: We don’t like to talk about endings or goodbyes at work. But executive leadership coaches, Lizzie Bentley Bowers and Alison Lucas and authors of Good Bye: leading change better by attending to endings, think we need to get better at it.

"Are we brave enough to let our clients know when we are not a match?" Regular column from Judy Stafford. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, October 2020

Our members share tips and advice on how to manage your winter wellbeing