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Counselling and psychotherapy can support you in understanding yourself better, your emotions, your relationships, and how your past may be impacting your present. By engaging with psychotherapy, you can manage mental health issues, relationships, and behaviour and thought patterns in a safe, confidential and empathetic setting.

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The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy is a professional body for members of the counselling and psychotherapy professions in the UK.
United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy is a professional association of psychotherapy organisations and practitioners in the United Kingdom. It is restricted to registered clinical psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors.
Counselling DirectoryThe Counselling Directory is a website which helps individuals find counsellors and helps counsellors find supervision and events and advertise their services.
UK Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners (UKAHPP)The UK Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners is an independent member organisation of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). UKAHPP is a professional membership and accreditation organisation for humanistic psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors.
Play Therapy UK (PTUK)Play Therapy UK (The United Kingdom Society for Play and Creative Arts Therapies Limited) exists to further the good practice of therapeutic work with children. This includes improving children’s emotional literacy as well as alleviating behaviour and mental health problems.
British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC)The British Psychoanalytic Council is a professional association for the psychoanalytic profession and a Professional Standards Authority accredited Register.
British Association of Play Therapists (BAPT)The British Association of Play Therapists is a member-led organisation with charitable status, ensuring its members are trained to a high level, follow professional practice and offer Play Therapy based on our three theoretical principles of actualisation, the need for positive regard and that play is a child’s main form of communication.
UK & Ireland Counsellor Directory UK & Ireland Counsellor Directory lists over 6,000 qualified counselling practitioners working in the UK and Ireland. The directory was an attempt to redress the balance that meant practitioners providing low-cost and free counselling also tended to be those least able to afford to advertise.
Neurodivergent Practitioners DirectoryA directory of Neurodivergent, neuro-affirmative practitioners hosted by Autistic-led nonprofit Thriving Autistic
National Register of Psychotherapists and Counsellors (NRPC)The National Register of Psychotherapists and Counsellors is a professional member organisation that works for the purpose of maintaining high professional standards within the Counselling and Psychotherapy industry, within the United Kingdom and internationally. They also help the general public find safe, ethical and well-trained therapists.
Association for Counselling and Therapy Online (ACTO)The Association for Counselling and Therapy Online promotes, maintains, improves and advances online counselling and psychotherapy as a recognised method of therapeutic delivery within the mental health professions. ACTO is the association for therapists and counselling working online therapeutically.
Foundation for Psychotherapy and Counselling (FPC)The Foundation for Psychotherapy and Counselling is the professional home for psychodynamic psychotherapists, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, and group analytical therapists.
Hub of HopeThe Hub of Hope is a mental health support database. It is provided by the national mental health charity, Chasing the Stigma, and brings local, national, peer, community, charity, private and NHS mental health support and services together in one place.
Youth AccessYouth Access is a national membership organisation for Youth Information, Advice and Counselling Services (YIACS) across the UK. They provide young people with access to free, high-quality, community-based advice and counselling services.
Black Minds Matter UKBlack Minds Matter UK is a fully registered charity connecting Black individuals and families with free therapy by qualified and accredited Black therapists.
NHSIf you live in England and are aged 18 or over, you can access NHS talking therapy services for anxiety and depression.
UK Counsellors DirectoryThe UK Counsellors Directory is a counsellors campaign group run by qualified counsellors from Counsellors Together UK (CTUK).
National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCS)The National Counselling Society was first set up in 1999 by a group of counsellors to support and promote counselling and counsellors, psychotherapists, hypnotherapists and psychologists.
Psychology TodayPsychology Today’s Therapy Directory lists clinical professionals, psychiatrists and treatment centres that provide mental health services internationally.
Leone CentreLeone Centre provides a supportive environment for couple and relationship counselling, systemic family therapy, individual psychotherapy and corporate coaching at South West London locations in Fulham, Putney, Chelsea, and Wimbledon.
Findatherapist.co.ukFindatherapist.co.uk is a free resource for people to help them find a psychological therapist. It verifies accredited/chartered/registered statuses monthly via the official websites of the professional bodies which grant them.
BetterHelpBetterHelp is a mental health platform that provides online mental health services directly to clients. Online counselling and therapy services are provided through web-based interaction as well as phone and text communication.

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