The Coalition for Inclusion and Anti-Oppressive Practice brings together organisations with a shared mission to improve diversity within the counselling, psychotherapy and psychological therapy professions.

Race is complicated - a toolkit for psychological therapies training

Following consultation with trainers and training providers in February 2021, the Coalition partners agreed to commission and deploy a toolkit to support the development of skills, knowledge and understanding for delivering inclusive counselling and psychotherapy training across a range of learning organisations.

With an initial focus on race and ethnicity, the primary objective of the toolkit is to help the counselling and psychotherapy sectors better understand and address race and diversity. The toolkit provides support on three areas of course provision: the institution, the training programme, and the individual tutor.

Download Race is Complicated Toolkit

Launch event

The Coalition for Inclusion and Anti-Oppressive Practice hosted an online launch event on Thursday 19 October 2023 at Place2Be's London office.

Watch the the authors discuss how to use the toolkit, how it came to be, and the intended impact of the toolkit in challenging the whole sector to be more inclusive and anti-oppressive. 

• MC Myira Khan, author of Working Within Diversity - Anti-Oppressive Practice in Counselling, Therapy, Supervision, Coaching & all Therapeutic Practice
• authors of the Race is complicated toolkit Marcelline Menyié and Danielle Osajivbe-Williams from Routes Therapeutic Consultancy.

The online launch event included a question and answer session with the authors.

Watch the launch event

Use the passcode to watch the launch event: Z^99pLwj

Coalition joint statement 

Our current focus is promoting inclusive and anti-oppressive professional training as part of a greater vision to address further barriers to inclusive practice, particularly in relation to supporting racially and ethnically minoritised communities.  

Coalition members

• Association of Christian Counselling and Linked Professions (ACC)
• Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP)
• British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
• British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT)
• Contemporary Institute of Clinical Sexology (CICS)
• College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists (COSRT)
• Muslim Counsellor and Psychotherapist Network (MCAPN)
• National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS)
• Place2Be
• Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility (PCSR)
• UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)

For further information, please contact coalition@place2be.org.uk.