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Online resources exploring issues and topics that are useful to student and trainee counsellors. CPD hub+.

To enable previous or current senior accredited members (awarded prior to 2023) to move to our revised senior accredited membership category, where they have the skills, knowledge and training to do so.

'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

We’re re-opening our equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) mentoring scheme for student members and trainees.

Cultural competence in student support: Meeting the unique needs of international students... International student counselling: Structural and social barriers... College counselling: Navigating the tensions... The future of HE support: Visibility and cross-collaboration... Facing the cost-of-living crisis: Students vs. financial pressure. University and College Counselling, May 2025.

Reading Joan Didion’s Private Diary: A reflection on ethics, legacy, and literary boundaries. BACP Student blogs.

Embracing authenticity: How Bluey illustrates the paradoxical theory of change in parenting and counselling. BACP member blogs. BACP student blogs

'My own doctoral research found that resources within student counselling are not suitably matched with clinical services in healthcare...' Regular column from Afra Turner. University and College Counselling, March 2023

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.

Trainee journalist Jodie Wood interviews a student who, because of the drinking culture during Freshers’ Week, struggled to cope with longer-term alcohol misuse. University and College Counselling, March 2024