Welcome to Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility

PCSR is a not-for-profit organisation. Our members are therapists, counsellors and other professionals and individuals engaged in supporting our ethos.

We are committed to


  • locating counselling and psychotherapy in its social, political, ecological, and economic context
  • recognising the impact of the political dimension on the client-therapist relationship
  • developing ideas about how social, economic, political, ecological and cultural issues can be integrated into theory and practice
  • identifying and challenging adverse discrimination at all levels within our profession and in the wider world
  • generating action, launching campaigns, and seeking to influence political processes

Latest events

Examining Whiteness: white identity and racism

23 Mar 2024

This group is open to people from all backgrounds, heritages and ethnicities who want to actively address the injustices and inequalities of racism through personal and collective work on White identity, power, privilege and complicity....

Examining Whiteness: white identity and racism

2 Dec 2023

This group is open to people from all backgrounds, heritages and ethnicities who want to actively address the injustices and inequalities of racism through personal and collective work on white identity, power, privilege and complicity....

Launch of 'Coalition for Inclusion and Anti-Oppressive Practice' toolkit

19 Oct 2023

A ground-breaking toolkit for psychological therapies training is being launched by the Coalition for Inclusion and Anti-Oppressive Practice, to help the UK counselling and psychotherapy sectors better understand and address race and diversity....


Latest resources

Celebrating Activism Videos from PCSR conference May 2021

12 Dec 2021

Susan Cousins, therapist, author of 'Overcoming Everyday Racism' and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Project Officer at Cardiff University and Mel Ciavucco community video...

PCSR Anti-Racism Action Group Manifesto

22 Nov 2021

The purpose of this manifesto is to lay out the aims of our ARAG and how this will work in the wider PCSR membership, and what action we would like to take in the Counselling and Psychotherapy community....

Statement in response to Palestinian NGOs being designated terrorist organisation

28 Oct 2021

The Israeli Ministry of Defence has designated six leading Palestinian civil society associations as “terrorist organisations”....


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