An Update from Your NCPS Wales Representative
Please see below for an update from Cherelle Mead , NCPS Wales Representative , on her work to build connections across Wales and ensure our members’ voices…
Support for Jurors: NCPS Provides Evidence to Support the Justice & Home Affairs Committee
The Society submitted evidence in support of the work of the Justice and Home Affairs Committee in their inquiry around support for jurors. The Society would…
A Future Worth Imagining: Reframing Hope in the Context of Dementia
Hope occupies a distinctive role in therapeutic practice. Dementia introdudes complexity to this conceptualisation regarding hope. Ultimately, they may need…
On Ageing, Control and the Things We Learn to Let Go
We considered the expectations attached to different stages of life, the fear of running out of time, and the paradoxical fact that some of the changes we…
What We Gain as We Grow Older: Lessons From Listening
Years ago, while conducting research with older adults, I had the privilege of listening to people in their sixties, seventies, eighties and beyond talk about…
Thousands more young people to access help with life's biggest challenges
42 new Young Futures Hubs to open across England, reversing a decade of decline in local youth services. From Cornwall to Northumberland, mental health…
The Words, Sentences and Chapters That Shape Us
Plans shifted from celebrations abroad, to a city break, to a small gathering of friends and family in outdoor pods. I started to take stock of my life,…
Neuro-affirming practice: what counsellors and psychotherapists need to know when working with autistic clients and those with attention differences
Why this matters now More people than ever are seeking therapy as autistic people, people with attention differences, or both. Autistic people and people with…
The Myth of the Linear Path: Why Year 11 Pressure Fails Our Young People
As someone who navigated my twenties and enters my early thirties with a career path that looks nothing like the one I envisioned at 16, I can offer both…
Motherhood is complicated
A year after becoming a mother, I found myself thinking about a question I had been asked countless times: “Are you loving being a mother?” It sounds like such…
NHS launches new guidance on registration requirements for psychological professions
NHS England has published new guidance setting out the registration requirements for the psychological professions working in NHS commissioned services in…
The Weight of Uncertainty: Living Without Clear Answers
This is how uncertainty begins to take hold, not only through what is happening, but through everything that could happen. Nothing may have been confirmed, yet…
