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A framework and curriculum to support training and practice in online and phone therapy (formerly telephone and e-counselling competences and curricula)

Open article: Victoria Penfold asks all therapists to consider an embodied practice. Therapy Today, December 2025/January 2026.

Making sense of symptoms. Plus... Keep talking: Dementia patients can benefit from IAPT services, according to a study... Pain prevention: Could pre-operative counselling be the key to preventing chronic pain?... In circles: How talking circles help healthcare workers recover from moral injury

Reframing masculinity: Reimagining support systems that welcome men... Male student mental health: Responding to the barriers... Mind your mind: Prioritising staff wellbeing... Learning and unlearning: Lessons from a first career. University and College Counselling, September 2025.

My mental health. Plus... Ins and outs: People with respiratory diseases need psychological support // Wake up! Why sleep problems should be at the forefront of client work // Compass points: A therapeutic model to help men navigate their mental health

Archive of online articles and pdf copies of the BACP Children, Young People and Families journal, the quarterly journal of BACP Children, Young People and Families division

‘That’s so gay!’: Why does LGBT bullying happen and what can we do to make our counselling spaces safe, LGBT+ inclusive environments? // Throw of the dice // Gloriously unready // More doing, less being // Under the eyes of a thousand stars...

Jeremy Bacon focuses on the challenges of community-based counselling services amid cost-of-living crisis: Insights from BACP's Policy team. BACP staff blog

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

Bringing together practitioners, researchers and trainers to develop the evidence base and improve the effectiveness of school and community based counselling services for children and young people.