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Answers to members' most commonly asked questions about the AGM.

To enable previous or current senior accredited members (awarded prior to 2023) to move to our revised senior accredited membership category, where they have the skills, knowledge and training to do so.

BACP and the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP) have a connection with each other’s counsellor and psychotherapist accreditation schemes.

Good Practice in Action fact sheet on placements. Last reviewed April 2024. PDF download

Good Practice in Action fact sheet on placements. Latest reviewed April 2024. PDF download

Good Practice in Action clinical reflections for practice resource on fitness to practise. Last reviewed December 2023. PDF download

Growing cross-party support for our policy priorities ahead of the Senedd election

'There is a deeply unhelpful myth that counselling consists of nice people saying kind things to sad people'. BACP Children, Young People and Families, March 2024

"There has always been concern that the cost of training precludes many good candidates from becoming counsellors. Efforts to make the profession more inclusive have long been jeopardised by this." Regular column from Sue Kegerreis. BACP Children, Young People and Families, March 2023

"...empowering identifications with peers can help a young person to forge new connections beyond the inevitable hierarchies of their relationships with adults." Regular column from Lucy-Jean Lloyd. BACP Children, Young People and Families, March 2023