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We believe that a paid counsellor should be available in every primary, secondary school, academy and FE college in England.

When time is of the essence: Working at relational depth in short-term therapy... Extremist ideas: Navigating misogyny in the room... Professional development: The restorative power of nature... Setting up from scratch: Profile of an FE head of service. University and College Counselling, November 2025.

Suicide risk when working in the counselling professions. Updated April 2023. PDF download

Good Practice in Action contracting for adults in the counselling professions. Published May 2024. PDF download

Role description for an Associate Editor with Counselling and Psychotherapy Research journal.

The power of words: When books become mirrors... Bibliotherapy: Therapeutic literature... Complex issues: How counsellors manage... Nightline: For students, by students. University and College Counselling, November 2024.

"I felt a pressing need to be with him in person. I leaned into my laptop, craning my neck, seeing us both alone in our separate little windows." Regular column from Lucy-Jean Lloyd. BACP Children, Young People and Families, September 2020

In her new book, Online Counselling: an essential guide, author Sarah Worley-James talks to Nicola Banning about her love of working online and why she wrote a nuts-and-bolts guide to help our profession do it better. BACP Workplace, January 2023

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

Artistic and therapeutic practice are twinned in important ways, sharing sensibilities and techniques aimed at making use of what Winnicott called the ‘potential space’, required for human development. For Dominic McLoughlin, creativity is at the heart of the work, allowing for an emphasis on difference, and active meaning-making between the therapeutic couple. University and College Counselling, March 2023