Employment In the context of a challenging employment market, driving growth in paid opportunities and bringing employers closer to our professions is a key priority for BACP.
Private Practice, June 2024 Journals Published 19 Jun 2024 Shared experience: The impact of the pandemic on therapy. Plus... Counselling older people... The future of AI... Setting out in private practice
Promoting your membership Guidelines on how to use your designatory letters, logos and certificates (previously members' advertising policy).
It changed my life Journals Published 9 May 2025 Open article: ‘Through therapy I learned to be curious, experience joy and see colour’. Therapy Today, May 2025.
PCE-CfD competences and curricula A framework for developing the knowledge and skills required to deliver PCE-Cfd
Online and phone therapy CPD courses Discounted courses for BACP counsellors and psychotherapists informed by our Online and Phone Therapy (OPT) competency framework.
Supervision competence framework and training curriculum A competence framework and training curriculum for delivering effective counselling and psychotherapy supervision practice and training
Embracing the mess, the meaning, and the human: transformative coaching as living inquiry Journals Published 28 Jul 2025 Open article: Founder of Animas Centre for Coaching, Nick Bolton, explores coaching as a lived philosophy that mirrors humanity in all its complexity. Coaching Today, July 2025.
Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions The Ethical Framework sets out the expected ethical principles, values and good practice standards for BACP members. All members commit to complying with the Ethical Framework as part of their terms and conditions of membership..
Good Practice in Action resources Good practice Published 1 Aug 2017 Supplementary resources, based on current research and evidence, to help you implement the Ethical Framework in your practice. Include commonly asked questions, fact sheets, legal resources and research overviews.