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What's the difference between coaching and counselling? What are the different types of coaching? The BACP Coaching executive explains what you can expect from coaching and how it can help.

"I have huge respect for my clients as I believe it takes extreme bravery to face the fears attached to the traumas they have experienced." Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, April 2020

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"... being an effective container is an odd mixture of things. On the one hand, it requires a solid presence... On the other, if the containment is to be authentic, then it needs to be porous." Regular column from Ryan Lowe. BACP Children, Young People and Families, September 2020

The bookshelf review compiled by Jeanine Connor. Therapy Today, December 2023

Mike Moss shares his work with Normal, an adolescent on the road towards self-actualisation, and describes the use of music in therapy. BACP Children, Young People and Families, September 2020

Your feedback on Therapy Today articles. Therapy Today, May 2023

Dr Nicole Schnackenberg discusses the use of the voice dialogue approach to explore underlying feelings of shame in clients with body dysmorphic disorder. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, April 2024.

'We are keen to identify training needs … and want to encourage divisional members to let us know what’s missing … we will be looking to create new ways for young people to have a voice within BACP and across the profession'. BACP Children, Young People and Families, September 2023

Bereavement counsellors and therapists have shared how grief can impact people in different and surprising ways