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Members and counselling organisations can help shape future of Welsh mental health and wellbeing services

COVID-19 can be overwhelming for therapists and lead us to ask, ‘am I doing enough?’ Cindi Bedor reflects on our profession’s response to the crisis and how we respond to overwhelm in our organisations. BACP Workplace, July 2020

Emma Loker suggests that hide-and-seek is a powerful resource in the counselling room which illustrates a child’s early attachments and offers opportunities for reparation. BACP Children, Young People and Families, December 2023

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These routes will enable accredited members to move to our senior accredited membership category, where they have the skills, knowledge and training to do so.

We’ve joined with other counselling and mental health organisations to issue a joint statement in support of NHS staff for World Mental Health Day

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"...interviewees are sometimes taken aback that the focus is so much more on their own personal development than their academic achievements or work experience". Regular column from Sue Kegerreis. BACP Children, Young People and Families, June 2020

For registered members who have completed a BACP accredited core training course or a BACP accredited or approved column B progression training.

A pathway to private practice: Setting up, developing and maintaining a career in counselling. Plus... Loneliness: society’s most pressing issue... Therapists who self-harm... Setting up in practice outside the UK. Private Practice, March 2025