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How music heals. Plus... Body dysmorphia: Exploring the client's underlying feelings of shame... Transgender lives: Is hostility creeping into the therapy room?... Risk awareness: The impact of social media on our mental health

Is working with psychedelics the future of therapy?... plus... Championing the person-centred approach... Lessons learned from working with addiction... The ethics of working with clients abroad... Exploring what makes a good ending

Challenging misrepresentation - A call for cultural awareness... Using our imaginations - Visualisation in empathy... Holy wisdom - Embodied presence

Our Anxiety is... campaign aims to help people find a trained professional who can give them support

Our members share their best strategies for coping with grief

'Humans like to be in control and we all crave certainty. The environment in which we are finding ourselves during winter 2023 is one of almost intolerable uncertainty and helplessness.' Regular column from Sandi Mann. BACP Workplace, January 2023

BACP Private Practice is for members who are working independently or for trainees who have yet to establish their counselling direction and are interested in private practice.

A central pillar of our campaign work has been to better understand the negative mental health impact of the ongoing cost-of-living crisis on our members, counselling services, clients and the wider population.

Our Third Sector Lead Jeremy Bacon discusses the importance of psychological support for people with long-term physical health issues

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.