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

Counsellors Matthew Leavesley and Deborah Shakespeare describe their fight for equal pay with their CBT colleagues. Therapy Today, April 2023

Open article: ‘Through therapy I learned to be curious, experience joy and see colour’. Therapy Today, May 2025.

Beverley Costa describes a model for training non-clinicians to facilitate reflective practice support. Therapy Today, February 2023

'Patterns of life and work for humanitarian workers have been likened to addiction'. Therapy Today, September 2023

Legislation to ban conversion therapy and to reform the Mental Health Act was first promised five years ago

Janina Fisher, pioneer of trauma-informed therapy, talks to Catherine Jackson about developments in trauma treatment over the past three decades, and what trauma-informed really means. Therapy Today, September 2023

Lack of specialist training means that people who have experienced domestic abuse have poor experiences within general counselling, says Jeannette Roddy. Therapy Today, March 2024

Despite being at increased risk of addiction, depression and anxiety, there is little backstage mental health support for those who tour, says Tamsin Embleton. Therapy Today, April 2024