BACP
The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) is the largest psychotherapy organisation in Europe with nearly 30,000 individual and organisational members.
It is a charity dedicated to promoting the interests of therapy to clients by providing verifiable standards of training and accountability among therapists. It does not sell any therapy services as such. It tells you what standards member therapists have achieved.
It is also the watchdog organisation which – in the absence of formal statutory regulation of the talking therapies – provides a complaints’ procedure for clients and an overall Ethical Framework for practitioners.
The website can be found at www.bacp.co.uk and for the past five years I have been BACP’s Media Consultant and Chief Spokesperson. I conduct about 80 interviews a month – radio, tv, press and magazines – on behalf of BACP and help produce and manage the annual surveys we conduct to inform about the state of opinion concerning counselling and psychotherapy. If you visit the Media Section of BACP’s website, you can read the text of many of these interviews.
