One Story, Many Issues

The news of a sex therapist whose appeal against his sacking by Relate over a clash between his religious beliefs and his refusal to counsel a gay couple features on both the BBC and Guardian websites today (as many news stories often do). What strikes me in reading both presentations of the story is the [...]

BBC + BNP = OK?

The growing controversy around the BBC’s invitation for British National Party leader Nick Griffin to appear on its Question Time politics forum programme this evening has many interesting angles. Essentially boiling down to people’s right to free speech, I’m interested in the assumptions that are being made about the capacities of the people involved (including [...]

Cat Registered as Hypnotherapist

Okay, so it’s a deliberately shocking headline, but it’s an investigation with a serious point, raising some valid considerations about professional standards of registration for therapists in the UK. Read the BBC story here (but please also go and read further! I’m not endorsing the BBC’s article as the full story!) www.wayforwardcounselling.co.uk