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Our approved qualifications scheme offers awarding organisations external quality assurance that your qualification meets stringent training, practice and quality standards.

I work for a local counselling service and have been referred a new client who would like to come for help with issues around loss of identity, low mood and anxiety after having a baby. Our Ethics team and Therapy Today readers consider this month’s dilemma. Therapy Today, September 2023

Training: 'Large cohorts offer richer diversity in terms of age, class, race, ethnicity, experience and personality type. Students might range in age from 20s to 70s, with all that this implies in terms of life experience and outlook.' BACP Children, Young People and Families, December 2023

News and resources from the BACP Research team. Therapy Today, May 2024

Phone therapy is intimate, accessible and offers the therapeutic asset of visual anonymity, says Sarah Hart. Therapy Today, March 2023

News and resources from the BACP Research team. Therapy Today, April 2024

BACP accreditation is the mark of a high quality, professional practitioner training course. It guarantees a standard of training accepted for BACP membership, registration and accreditation. Our course accreditation scheme is temporarily closed and we’re not accepting any new applications at this time.

Alistair Ross writes about the tensions between darkness and light. Thresholds, July 2023

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