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How we are run and governed - our Board of Governors and Senior management team.

While welcoming 'Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision: a green paper', BACP, BPC and UKCP raise serious concerns about its ambition and its ability to deliver the support needed for our children and young people.

BACP Coaching is a focus for coaches and coaching within BACP. Our members are counsellors and psychotherapists who work with a variety of models to integrate coaching and counselling.

BACP Spirituality is for counsellors, psychotherapists, pastoral carers, chaplains and related professionals whose work is informed by a spiritual perspective.

What is an eating disorder? What are the signs? Why do they develop, and how can counselling help? BACP-accredited therapist and eating disorders specialist Harriet Frew shares her expertise.

Krystal Scott shares findings from her research about the therapist’s use of congruence in counselling with children and young people. BACP Children, Young People and Families, June 2020

Good Practice in Action legal resource covering working with children and young people. Last reviewed August 2025. PDF download

Open article: Counselling people who have experienced domestic abuse requires a structured approach that understands the risks, challenges and complexities, writes Dr Craig Newman. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, July 2025.

Therapists share how social media use affects young people’s sleep and what you can do to help

BACP’s work to protect the public and to maintain public confidence in the profession is at the heart of everything we do.