13/02/2026
This week, I was recognised as a Senior Accredited Member of BACP, aligned to SCoPEd Column C, and I want to name both the gratitude and the joy in that.
I know SCoPEd has landed in a mixed way across our profession. For many, it’s stirred uncertainty, frustration, and questions about identity, worth, and belonging. That makes sense. This work is deeply personal, and any framework that looks like it might rank or divide was always going to touch tender places; especially in a profession already tired and stretched. So I’m holding this recognition carefully.
Column C isn’t about being “better than”. It’s about senior-level responsibility: years in the work, holding complexity and risk, making nuanced clinical decisions, and staying ethically accountable as the work deepens. It’s recognition that isn’t automatic or assumed, it’s earned over time.
For me, this moment feels less like an endpoint and more like a quiet acknowledgement of a path already walked.
I’m deeply grateful to those who’ve supported me along the way; my supervisors, my own therapists, my trainers, colleagues, and, of course, the clients who trusted me with their stories and shaped me as a practitioner far more than any framework ever could.
I’ll pause. I’ll smile. I’ll let myself feel pleased.
Then, as always, I’ll return to the work....grounded, relational, and human.
— Sarah x
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