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

Information for BACP members

How to offer support and where to get advice.

Phoebe Johnson discusses confidentiality dilemmas in her work with risky adolescents, Young People and Families, December 2023

The CPD hub is our online learning platform to support you in your practice.

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

Understanding when the criminal justice system can request therapy notes - and when therapists can refuse // Working with misogyny // A veteran's recovery // Supporting HIV positive clients // Our profession post-pandemic. Therapy Today, December 2025/January 2026

Janet Toulson Sayers looks back on more than 50 years as an NHS psychologist. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, October 2023

John Cowley argues that student counselling services must be delivered by trained, qualified and professionally accountable staff

Find out how counselling works, what therapists do and what happens in a therapy session.