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Open article: ‘After years of being silenced, I found someone who wanted to listen’. Therapy Today, March 2025.

Alan Phillips, Vishakha Tripathi and Charlotte Tomlinson explore how genetic counsellors and therapeutic counsellors can work together with individuals referred for testing for inheritable diseases. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, July 2016

‘The ongoing war in Gaza has allowed many of my clients to reflect on their own experiences’. Therapy Today, April 2024

Anxiety is the appropriate response to any relationship tension, given that relationships are so fundamental to our survival, writes Jenny Collard. Private Practice, December 2023

'When I joined the counselling service at Cardiff University, it was providing all the psychological support for students and staff. Over the next few years, the scope of the service gradually evolved to the point that several new teams have been developed to complement or complete tasks that are outside of the core therapeutic work.' A conversation with Sarah Worley-James. University and College Counselling, November 2023

We asked our member Katerina Georgiou what Gestalt therapy is and how it can help

An annual woodland retreat offers an innovative intervention for sufferers of obsessive compulsive disorder, says Stuart Ralph. Therapy Today, April 2023