Jeffrey A. Kottler
Jeffrey A. Kottler is professor, Department of Counseling, California State University, Fullerton. He is the author or co-author of more than eighty books. He is also head of the Madhav Ghimire Foundation, which provides scholarships for at-risk girls in Nepal.
What You Never Learned in Graduate School: A Survival Guide for Therapists
Therapists are struggling to adapt both to the changing landscape of their profession, and to the demands on their profssional and personal success. This book explores many issues which are rarely... (more)
Exploring and Treating Acquisitive Desire: Living in the Material World
This book demonstrates how what we own can control us - the terminal stage of the social disease of acquisitive desire for material things. Topics covered include: what acquisitive desire means in... (more)
Making Changes Last
Based on original research conducted by the author over the past 20 years, this book is an investigation of enduring change. Therapists, change agents and people who have either self-initiated... (more)
Bad Therapy: Master Therapists Share Their Worst Failures
This volume offers a rare and revealing glimpse into the mindset and actions of some of the profession's most seasoned and well-known authors, theoreticians and leaders. Kottler and Carlson guide us... (more)
The Client Who Changed Me: Stories of Therapist Personal Transformation
Although the impact that clients can have on therapists is well-known, most work on the subject consists of dire warnings: mental health professionals are taught early on to be on their guard for... (more)
Their Finest Hour: Master Therapists Share Their Great Success Stories
Therapists on the cutting edge of their profession detail their most professionally rewarding cases and share what they learnt from them. These outstanding therapists define achievement in their... (more)
Creative Breakthroughs in Therapy: Tales of Transformation and Astonishment
In Creative Breakthroughs in Therapy, well-known authors Kottler and Carlson have invited some of the world's most creative therapists and researchers to share stories that have resulted in... (more)
The Assassin and the Therapist: An Exploration of Truth in Psychotherapy and in Life
Many therapists have likely worked with a client who has caused the therapist to confront his most cherished beliefs, or has changed the therapist in ways that forever altered the way he performs... (more)
Introduction to Counseling: Voices from the Field: 7th Revised Edition
This student-centered overview of the counseling profession exposes you to real challenges faced by experienced practitioners and gives you an unparalleled look at what your professional future may... (more)
Duped: Lies and Deception in Psychotherapy
In this book, Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson turn their well-polished therapy microscopes onto the subjects of lying, falsehood, deceit, and the loss of trust in the counseling room. What do clients... (more)
Theories of Counseling and Therapy: An Experiential Approach: Second Edition
A core text for courses on Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy, this book represents an experiential approach to understanding and applying theory. It is written in a student friendly style that... (more)
The Therapist's Workbook: Self-Assessment Self-Care and Self-Improvement Exercises for Mental Health Professionals: Second Edition
Mental health professionals spend their days helping others, but who is there to help them when stress and burnout threaten their own well–being? Filled with self–assessments, journaling exercises,... (more)
Helping Beyond the 50 Minute Hour: Therapists Involved in Meaningful Social Action
Mental health professionals are held to a high standard of advocating for their clients and communities, and possess unique skills that can be used for good. Yet, many practitioners and academicians... (more)
On Being a Master Therapist: Practicing What You Preach
Learn from master therapists and bring your skills to the next level. Bringing a breath of fresh air to the therapy profession, this compelling and thoughtful resource urges readers to move from... (more)
The Therapist in the Real World: What You Never Learn in Graduate School (but Really Need to Know)
Graduate school and professional training for therapists often focus on academic preparation, but there's a lot more that a therapist needs to know to be successful after graduation. With warmth,... (more)
Therapy Over 50: Aging Issues in Psychotherapy and the Therapist's Life
Traditional training in counseling and psychotherapy makes minimal distinctions on the ages of the client and therapist in the treatment process. Therapy Over 50: Aging Issues in Psychotherapy and... (more)
Doing Better: Improving Clinical Skills and Professional Competence
This volume is intended to help practicing therapists and counselors, as well as students of these professions, to explore more fully and systematically the processes of self-improvement in their... (more)
On Being a Therapist
For more than thirty years, On Being a Therapist has inspired generations of mental health professionals (and their clients) to explore the most private, confusing, and sacred aspects of helping... (more)