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Contents
- What is counselling?
- Recommended reading
- Business resources for professional counsellors
1. What is counselling?
- Different types of therapy (BACP)
- What therapy can help with (BACP)
Your relationship with your therapist is generally more important than the approach they use.
– BACP
the concept of counselling, the role of a counsellor,
the skills required

2. Recommended reading
Relationships

- How Therapy Helped Me Find the Right Relationship
- How to deal with relationship problems post-lockdown
- The secrets to sustaining a strong sexual connection over the long haul
- The 8 Worst Things You Can Do During An Argument With Your Partner
- The 5 Phrases That Could Rescue a Relationship
- How Attachment Style Changes Through Multiple Decades of Life
- Yep, we’re all fighting with our partners right now
- 9 Better Ways to Handle Relationship Disagreements, According to Experts
- 6 terrible reasons to get married (and 5 beautiful signs that you should)
- How To Get Closer Than Ever During Your Engagement (Without Wanting To Kill Each Other Before The Wedding)
- A Maintenance Plan for Your Marriage
- Every successful relationship is successful for the same 10 exact reasons
- How to Build Trust in Your Relationship
Anxiety / Anger
- It Feels Like Anger, but Is It Really Anxiety?
- Coping Skills for Anxious Times
- Helping Children With Anxiety: What to Say to Children When They Are Anxious
- 14 Easy Ways to Feel Way Less Anxious at Work
- 32 Mantras That Help People Get Through Anxiety
- 17 ‘Small,’ but Significant, Lifestyle Changes That Help People With Anxiety
- Feeling Stuck or Anxious? Change Your Story to Move Forward
- A Simple Way to Calm Yourself When Feeling Strong Emotions
- 6 Ways the Most Emotionally Intelligent People Handle Anger
Self-care / Resilience

- Talks for when you feel totally burned out
- Our best bet against burnout is self-care, just not the kind you think
- The truth about burnout: It doesn’t look how we expect it to
- Self-esteem
- How to recognise, prevent and deal with burnout in a creative job
- Mindfulness meditation may ease anxiety, mental stress
Neuroscience / Emotions
- Here are 24 cognitive biases that are warping your perception of reality
- Group Drumming Better Than Prozac, Study Suggests
- Should you live near the ocean? 5 benefits of living near the beach
- The Neuroscience of Why Gratitude Makes Us Healthier
- How Nature Rewires the Brain for Happiness
- How The Brain Shapes Pain And Links Ouch With Emotion
- Yes, Impostor Syndrome Is Real. Here’s How to Deal With It
- Too scared to speak up? How to be more confident
- What your reaction to the COVID-19 outbreak says about you
- The ‘Emotion Chart’ My Therapist Gave Me That I Didn’t Know I Needed
- The 5 different types of tiredness
- The 7 Types of Rest You Need to Actually Feel Recharged
- Why Self-Compassion Works Better Than Self-Esteem
- The Hippies Were Right: It’s All about Vibrations, Man!
- Just Because You’re A High Achiever Doesn’t Mean Mental Health Is Not For You
- Why Winter is SAD for some
- It’s Not All Love and Light: Why We Can’t Ignore the Dark and Just “Be Positive”
Trauma
- Why Are Memories of My Past Trauma Coming Back Now?
- Mental Health First Aid – what is it and how can I do it?
- The Benefits of Yoga for Trauma Treatment and Mind-Body Wellness
- Can Music Heal Trauma? Exploring the Therapeutic Powers of Sound
- Love and Connection: How Trauma Can Bring Us Closer Together
- Trauma Treatment: What’s Your Body Got to Do with It?
- Big T and Little t Trauma and How Your Body Reacts to It
- 7 ways to practice emotional first aid
- How Trauma Is Carried Across Generations
Grief
- The messy, complicated truth about grief
- Woman Shares The “Ball In The Box” Analogy Her Doctor Taught Her To Help Deal With Grief
- Understanding Grief
- How to Speak to Someone About an Unspeakable Loss
- 4 Things You Need to Know about ‘Moving On’ from Grief
- Dealing with Loss and Grief: Be Good to Yourself While You Heal
Infertility
- My wife and I struggled with infertility for 7 years – here’s what I learned through the process
- What Accepting Childlessness Means to Me
- Helping patients cope after a failed cycle
- Getting the right support: How specialist fertility counselling can help
- My IVF life: the science experiment to make a baby – from a partner’s view
- The lasting trauma of infertility
3. Business resources for professional counsellors

- Resource Library
- Example P&L for a self employed counsellor
- Example cash flow for a self employed counsellor
- Tax made easy for counsellors
- A guide to expenses for counsellors
- How to Market Your Private Practice
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