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At Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust, an acute hospital, a pilot training was designed to helpline managers support healthcare professionals with their mental health. The authors, Simon Pestell, Sarah Markham, Teresa Jennings, Kerri Featherstone and Gail Richardson share their findings. BACP Workplace, October 2023

Mental health practitioners can improve their effectiveness by practising self-compassion, write Dr Elaine Beaumont and Noah Sisson-Curbishley. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, April 2020

Emma Palmer shares her experience of living with chronic illness. Thresholds, October 2020

Open article: Therapeutic gardening can help reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, loneliness, social isolation and stress. And there are no side effects, as Ben Thomas explains. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, October 2025.

Open article: With growing research into their effectiveness, could psychedelics provide an answer to the overuse of antidepressants? asks Catherine Jackson. Therapy Today, July/August 2023

Coaching and occupational psychologist Charlotte Housden shares the genesis and development of a new practice model for helping clients and practitioners through the process of change, and the research that inspired it. Coaching Today, October 2023

Open article: Penelope Campling draws on her experience with frontline clinicians in the NHS to suggest how we can offer psychological support to healthcare workers. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, July 2023

Caroline Georgiou introduces a multi-sensory sound healing modality. Thresholds, April 2024

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

Open article: Fred Ehresmann takes a solution-focused approach to navigate the tidal wave of suffering and hold hope for those in despair at the state of our planet. Private Practice, June 2023