Practice
Children & Young People explores the unique considerations of counselling younger clients, including developmental stages, communication techniques, safeguarding, and ethical practice. This section helps you develop the skills and knowledge to provide effective and age-appropriate support.
Ethics in counselling provides the framework for professional and responsible practice, ensuring client safety, confidentiality, and integrity. This section explores ethical principles, decision-making, and professional guidelines to help you navigate complex situations with confidence and accountability.
Practice Additions explore complementary services and approaches that can enhance your counselling practice. This section covers areas such as ecotherapy, creative arts, coaching, and other integrative methods to expand your therapeutic offerings and support clients in diverse ways.
Self-Care in counselling emphasizes the importance of maintaining your well-being to sustain effective practice. This section explores strategies for managing stress, preventing burnout, and fostering resilience, helping you care for yourself while supporting others.
Self-Development in counselling focuses on personal and professional growth, including self-awareness, reflective practice, and continuous learning. This section provides insights and strategies to help you enhance your skills, confidence, and effectiveness as a practitioner.
Emma Chapman explores the use of assessments in counselling—what they are, why they matter, and how they can be both…
Boundaries in counselling define the structure and limits of the therapeutic relationship, helping to build trust and ensure safety. From…
Nicola Hughes explores how bereavement and loss affect children and young people, offering practical guidance on development, grief responses, and…
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is an ethical requirement for counsellors, ensuring safe, effective, and evolving practice.Explore CPD standards, requirements from…
Contracting sets the foundation for the therapeutic relationship by clarifying boundaries, expectations and responsibilities from the outset. A well-structured agreement…
Counselling ethics and law overlap but differ in focus. Therapists must follow legal duties (e.g. GDPR, safeguarding, disclosure limits) while…
Struggling to connect with resistant clients? Discover how to navigate barriers, build trust, and use psychoeducation to create genuine therapeutic…
Mamood Ahmad explores why race, culture and anti-discrimination competence is vital in therapy, with practical insights and reflective tools. Carry…
Whether planned or unexpected, endings can stir emotion—but also offer rich opportunities for growth. With preparation and reflection, both counsellor…
Counselling ethics guide practice, confidentiality, and professional conduct. Ethical bodies like BACP set standards, offer support, and handle complaints. Conflicts…
Counsellor and trainer Emma Chapman explores how beliefs, values and attitudes shape who we are – and why recognising them…
Sally-Anne Armitage explores how to recognise and work with sceptical clients in therapy. You'll learn to respond with immediacy, reassurance,…
Dr. Anna Louise Fry discusses minority stress and its impact on mental health, focusing on LGB individuals. Learn about societal…
Note-taking in counselling is more than memory aid—it supports ethical practice, supervision, and legal protection. Discover what to record, how…
Ethics guide what’s right; confidentiality protects what’s shared. Counsellors in the UK aren’t legally regulated, but professional bodies uphold standards.…
Barriers to communication in counselling include lack of understanding, personal pride, or accessibility issues. Overcoming these requires flexibility, awareness of…
BACP-accredited counsellor Josephine Hughes explores the psychology of procrastination, outlining common patterns and strategies to overcome them. You'll identify personal…
Personal development enhances self-awareness, helping you work ethically and effectively as a counsellor. This section explores self-reflection, personal growth methods,…
Professional counselling practice requires ethical adherence, clear boundaries, supervision, and cultural awareness. Student counsellors must understand legal frameworks, note-taking, referrals,…
Referrals are part of ethical counselling practice. When clients present issues beyond the counsellor’s remit—such as medical, legal, or substance…
Sometimes the best support we can offer is to know when we’re not the right fit. This guide explores the…
Reflexivity in counselling is about turning self-awareness into intentional action. By drawing on their inner responses, a therapist can make…
Professor Windy Dryden – one of the UK’s leading CBT trainers – introduces single session therapy as a mindset and…
Associate columnist and ‘reporter at large’ Barry Heap reminds us that having a unique personal identity is fine , however being…
Supervision is a vital part of counselling practice, offering space to reflect, learn, and ensure ethical standards are met. It…
Exploring how the teenage brain develops, this session with Kairen Griffiths highlights how neurological changes impact mood, behaviour, and relationships.…
The therapist’s use of self involves drawing on personal awareness, presence, and authenticity to deepen connection and support growth in…
Vicarious trauma can affect counsellors working closely with traumatised clients, leading to burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary trauma. This guide…
Chloe Foster explores what LGBTQ inclusion really means in therapeutic work, sharing personal insights, unpacking key terms, and offering seven…
Thinking of counselling children or teens? It’s a whole different ball game. From attachment to creativity, legalities to resilience—this essential…
Catherine Knibbs explores the distinct needs of children and young people in therapy. You'll gain insight into developmental stages, communication…
Maintaining professional competence is crucial to ensuring effective and ethical practice in counselling and psychotherapy. This article explores the concept…