Articles & Guides

This comprehensive guide explores the key changes in the transition from ICD-10 to ICD-11, specifically focusing on updates relevant to mental health professionals. It highlights new categories, reclassification efforts, and implications for diagnosis and treatment, offering practical steps for implementing these changes in clinical practice.

Discover the essentials of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) under ICD-11 code 6B00. Learn to identify key symptoms and explore effective treatment strategies. Read this comprehensive guide tailored for mental health professionals.

Explore the impact of technology on counselling and psychotherapy. Discover the pros and cons of using online platforms, from finding clients to ensuring data protection. Learn how to leverage modern tools while safeguarding your clients' privacy. Read more to navigate the digital landscape effectively.

Discover best practices for streamlining appointment scheduling in mental health clinics. Learn how to balance face-to-face and remote sessions, set healthy work boundaries, and use automated booking systems. Enhance your clinic’s efficiency and focus more on patient care.

Effective communication is essential in healthcare. This article offers key strategies for psychologists, psychotherapists, and counsellors to enhance their skills. Learn how active listening, empathy, and clear language can build trust and improve patient outcomes. Read more to elevate your practice and connect better with your patients.

During COVID-19, many counsellors were forced by government regulations to practice online or telephone counselling to prevent the spread of the disease. As those previous years might be a thing of the past and counsellors returned to face-to-face sessions, many therapists realised the benefits and drawbacks of providing teletherapy to clients and decided to adopt this new style of working, making teletherapy a more permanent fixture in their counselling practice.

In an engaging Q&A session, we sit down with Catherine Asta, a therapist and author of the book "Rediscovered." Catherine shares her experience with practice management tools and how Konfidens has significantly transformed both her professional and personal life.

Explore essential strategies for managing patient records in mental health practices. Learn best practices in data protection, client onboarding, session note-taking, and utilizing verified online platforms for secure record-keeping.

Part two of our complete guide to starting a private practice. Learn how to navigate the complexities of starting your own private mental health care practice with expert guidance from Tom Bulpit MBACP. In this comprehensive two-part guide, discover essential steps to establish your practice, from legal considerations to setting boundaries and determining session fees.

What is in a pronoun? Someone’s gender, their identity, their sex, their outlook on life? In every walk and aspect of my life pronouns come up and not just because I use them, but because they are a topic of conversation, something that needs to be checked, or enquired over and sometimes argued and fought over.

This is my honest account of the rocky journey transitioning from a secure corporate counseling job to diving headfirst into private practice. I spill the beans on the doubts, struggles with finding clients, financial worries, and the unexpected perks I stumbled upon. Remaining anonymous, I delve into embracing the challenges and unexpected rewards of this new counselling path.

I’m Tom Bulpit, and I’m the Managing Director of The Empathy Project CIC. We’re a small community team of counsellors working together to deliver low cost and accessible counselling to the people of Southampton and the Isle of Wight. We’ve partnered with Konfidens to make that mission a reality.