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Research by Nicola Bain

For counsellors and psychotherapists in further and higher education. The quarterly professional journal of BACP Universities and Colleges division.

Regular column from Michael Lilley. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, October 2016

We organise professional conferences, CPD events and networking opportunities around the UK and online, covering many different aspects of counselling and psychotherapy.

Open article: We don’t like to talk about endings or goodbyes at work. But executive leadership coaches, Lizzie Bentley Bowers and Alison Lucas and authors of Good Bye: leading change better by attending to endings, think we need to get better at it.

'The proposed strategy recommits to reducing the number and rates of suicide deaths in Wales, as well as establishing clearer pathways of care for people who self-harm and improving support for people bereaved by suicide.' Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, April 2024.

'Each new cohort of students who we welcome in September will have been affected at a different time in their emotional development...' Regular column from Mary Jones. University and College Counselling, March 2023

BACP offers bursaries for the 2026 Research Conference, covering fees and travel to support early career researchers, trainees and people with lived experience.

"I find that a useful early focus in a coaching programme is to look with the client at their strengths, and I usually do this using values in action resources." Coaching Today, April 2020