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"By integrating mindfulness into supervision sessions, my supervisees and I have unlocked a felt sense of the client that has supported the counsellor to engage with rich reflections or identify their own blocks." Regular column from Elizabeth Holt. BACP Children, Young People and Families, March 2023

The Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions 2018 is being reviewed, and we want to make sure that members are involved in the process.

Our Anxiety is... campaign uses AI images to illustrate the symptoms of anxiety and aims to help you find a trained professional who can give you support

Open article: Dwight Turner helps a trainee recognise the psychologically wounding impact of colonisation. Therapy Today, March 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

In her blog, Editor Nicola Banning reflects that the one certainty in life is change as she introduces the April issue of our BACP Workplace journal. BACP journals blogs

"...it seems as though the ‘new normal’ means constant hypersensitivity to risk, relentless threat-scanning and living in fear." Regular column by Sandi Mann. BACP Workplace, October 2020

'Working with Intersectionality in Student Mental Health’ (November 2023), Dr Michael Priestly presented findings from co-produced research, collected during the development of the University Mental Health Charter.' University and College Counselling, March 2024

How important are first impressions? Erik de Haan observes that the opening moments of a coaching session can reveal a wealth of information about our clients – and the relationship we have with them. Coaching Today, January 2020

Counselling: Too much choice 'In the counselling room, when I see a child who is not rushing to pick up an activity, or one that seems unable to make a decision, I take a step back and ask, ‘What is going on for this child?'. BACP Children, Young People and Families, December 2023