Learning zone

Student column

We’ve always been told throughout the counselling course that the journey each of us will follow during training will change us Read more

Dilemmas – Breaking up is hard to do

This month's dilemma: Cameron gets on well with his therapist. They have developed a quasi-supervisory relationship during his counselling training and now he thinks she might be an ideal supervisor Read more

Counselling and Psychotherapy Research (CPR)

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Hindsights

Why I became a counsellor

What makes a good therapist? What values do you hold dear? Former nurse Els van Ooijen wanted to be able to help her patients emotionally, but also to understand and heal herself Read more

Inside latest issue

Raising our game

BACP will shortly roll out a national voluntary registration scheme that will bring better safeguards for clients and higher standards for counselling
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Holding and being held

Sculpting workshops can reach the loneliness that is often at the root of people's depression, argues Madeleine Böcker
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Measuring the immeasurable

Elizabeth Freire, Robert Elliott and Graham Westwell have developed a scale to measure competence in person-centred and experiential therapies
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Behind the pictures

Adam Hancher depicts the emotional states of his characters through their surroundings

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In conversation

In conversation with

Colin Feltham interviews May Therapy Today contributor Madeleine Böcker about loneliness and why therapists should take it more seriously Read more

In the news

Report says DWP failed to prevent back-to-work fraud

The Department for Work and Pensions could have done more to prevent fraud in its employment programmes, a report from the National Audit Office says Read more

Government pledges to improve maternity care

The Government has pledged to radically improve maternity care to combat postnatal depression Read more

Free home care available to fewer elderly people

Fewer older people are getting free home care from their local authority and charges have risen by 10 per cent in the past two years, a survey reveals Read more

Relationships

The Wednesday Group

Continuing our fictional group therapy series – episode 13: Loving and hating  Read more

Too much information?

Richard Bryant-Jefferies continues our monthly column with an exploration of the consequences for Mary’s supervisory relationship with Sophia of an unguarded comment on her blog Read more

From the archive

Addiction: is counselling sufficient?

Clients with addictions can benefit from counselling, so don’t automatically refer them on, advise Sue Wilders and Sam Robinson in this article from March 2006 Read more