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• The May issue of Therapy Today contains a piece of synchronicity that should not pass without comment. In her client column, Emma Munro notes that her ‘“problems” may be in large part spiritual’. She attempts to share her interest in spiritual issues with her therapist so he can ‘understand where I’m coming from’ but ‘he doesn’t seem to see it as being something to work with’. She concludes her piece by noting that behavioural change is not enough for her, she wants ‘change in [her] soul’.
  
  Later in the same issue, my APSCC colleague Salma Khalid is the subject of the ‘Day in the life’ interview. She focuses on embracing spirituality and says of her work with the APSCC executive, that she is working ‘towards changing perceptions of spirituality within the profession’.
  
  The experience that Emma Munro describes, of raising spiritual issues in therapy but them not being taken up, is one I hear about on a regular basis, both in my own client work and research, and through APSCC (www.apscc.org.uk), BACP’s division focussing on spirituality. BACP recently adopted, among its Policy and Position Statements, the following: ‘BACP encourages high standards of training and awareness in spirituality and especially in its relationship to counselling and psychotherapy’; ‘BACP encourages counsellors and psychotherapists to engage with the aspects of faith and culture if their clients bring these to counselling/psychotherapy.’
  
  Members who would like to know more about how to turn these encouraging words into action, to the benefit of clients like Emma Munro, may wish to make contact, subscribe to our divisional journal, Thresholds, or consider joining the APSCC division.

• Chris Jenkins
  PhD, MBACP, Chair APSCC, Editor of Thresholds