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Ben Kay joins leaders, organisations, practitioners and policymakers from across the mental health sector at this year's conference. BACP staff blogs.

Poster presentation by Shinette Brown, Laura Fontanet, Pedro Magalhães Lino, Johnny Scratchley and Rahim Nas

Featuring 'People Not Pathology: freeing therapy from the medical model', Pete Sanders and Janet Tolan (eds); 'Madness at the Movies: understanding mental illness through film', James Charmey(Johns Hopkins University Press); 'The Mystery of Emotions: seeking a theory of what we feel', RD Hinshelwood (Phoenix); 'Music Psychotherapy and Anxiety: social, community and clinical contexts', Rebecca Zarate(Jessica Kingsley Publishers); 'Supporting Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy: qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research', Sofie Bager-Charleson and Alistair McBeath; 'Man Kind: tools for mental health, well-being, and modernizing masculinity', Zachary Gerdes. Therapy Today, November 2023

A collaborative study with university and college counselling services to create a shared routine outcomes database and build evidence for the sector

I work for a local counselling service and have been referred a new client who would like to come for help with issues around loss of identity, low mood and anxiety after having a baby. Our Ethics team and Therapy Today readers consider this month’s dilemma. Therapy Today, September 2023

Open article: ‘Counselling helped me process my trauma and write my memoir’. Therapy Today, June 2025.

Counsellors and psychotherapists play a crucial role in improving the health and wellbeing of our society. Find out about training, search for jobs and placements or develop your skills working with us.

Open article: Therapy has a crucial part to play in empowering the ageing population and fighting cultural stereotypes and discrimination, says Helen Kewell. Therapy Today, April 2024

'While I was working I took further training at the Tavistock Institute and the Anna Freud Centre, which led me some years later to work primarily as a child and family psychotherapist.'. Therapy Today, April 2024