Author: Emily Bridges

The Partnership of Counselling and Psychotherapy Bodies (PCPB) has begun the search for a new independent chair, as the current chair, Paul Buckley, prepares to step down after five years in the role.

The Partnership of Counselling and Psychotherapy Bodies (PCPB) has published its first shared dataset that helps to map the demographic profile of the profession.

The Partnership of Counselling and Psychotherapy Bodies (PCPB) has written to Baroness Merron, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Patient Safety, Women’s Health and Mental Health, to raise concerns around unregulated therapy services being delivered from overseas to clients in the UK.

We are excited to announce a major milestone in our ongoing commitment to advancing professional standards in the counselling and psychotherapy profession. As part of our evolution, the partners who developed the Scope of Practice and Education (SCoPEd) framework now have a new partnership name.

The SCoPEd partnership welcomes the publication of ‘Staying Safe from Suicide’ by NHS England.

Students taking part in a landmark project which fully funds postgraduate psychotherapeutic training within NHS services have now started their third and final year.

The six SCoPEd partners are providing this update on the important work currently underway with regards to the SCoPEd framework implementation, governance and impact assessment.

Five SCoPEd partners have reached an agreement with NHS Talking Therapies to accredit a new NHS postgraduate training pilot.