National Association For Professional Counselling and Psychotherapy

Training and Education Resources

BACP Online and phone therapy (OPT) competence framework

User guide and training curriculum. Raising training and practice standards in counselling and psychotherapy.

How to do counselling online

This continuing professional development (CPD) course has been jointly developed by The Open University and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy as a response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The aim of the course is to offer a primer on working online as a counsellor or psychotherapist. Course completion will boost your knowledge and confidence, and will support counsellors and psychotherapists to offer technology-based counselling safely and effectively.

Children and young people (CYP) competences and curricula

Raising training and practice standards in counselling and psychotherapy. A competence framework for delivering effective humanistic counselling with children and young people.