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Read our members' experiences and your stories of how counselling can help you through pregnancy, miscarriage and being a new parent.

A framework and curriculum to support training and practice in online and phone therapy (formerly telephone and e-counselling competences and curricula)

Student mental health problems have almost tripled, study finds: around one in six undergraduates now report experiencing mental health challenges. University and College Counselling, March 2024

Krystal Scott shares findings from her research about the therapist’s use of congruence in counselling with children and young people. BACP Children, Young People and Families, June 2020

People with disabilities are employed in all areas of life, yet, sharing her own lived experience, Elaine Davies ponders if and why academics may appear reluctant to disclose their disabilities. University and College Counselling, March 2024

Elizabeth Cotton shares the results of a survey that looked at employment conditions in the therapeutic professions. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, January 2020

Open article: Ragini Jha makes the case for how counsellors must consider the challenges of racism, as well as social and financial barriers, when supporting international students. University and College Counselling, May 2025.

What is obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)? How do you know if someone has OCD? Our member Tracie Holroyd explains how counselling can help if you have OCD.

Counselling can help clients who have fled to the West for safety to understand their complex attachments to their homelands, says Sofia Chanda-Gool. Therapy Today, February 2024

Samoon Tasmim reflects on the dialogues that led to his academic collaborator, Andrzej Jastrzębski, writing a holistic model for integrating spirituality in counselling, and his subsequent experience of piloting his colleague’s model with clients. Thresholds, January 2023