Counselling Books
Setting Up and Running a Therapy Business: Frequently Asked Questions
This book answers the questions that therapists frequently ask about setting up and running a business. It allows readers to successfully make the journey from being trained in how to conduct... (more)
PhotoTherapy Techniques: Exploring the Secrets of Personal Snapshots and Family Albums: Second Edition
PhotoTherapy techniques use personal snapshots and family photos to connect with feelings, thoughts, and memories during therapy and counselling sessions, in ways that words alone cannot... (more)
What Can the Matter Be?: Therapeutic Interventions with Parents, Infants and Young Children
This volume is the result of over twenty years of therapeutic interventions with families within the Tavistock Clinic's Under Fives Service. It describes in detail the process of understanding young... (more)
Out of This World: Suicide Examined
This book is intended for anyone with either an interest in suicide or suicidal behaviour. It is not aimed solely at the professional psychotherapist but at a broad range of professionals who... (more)
Counselling Children and Young People in Private Practice: A Practical Guide
With statutory CAMHS services often heavily oversubscribed, and school and college services mainly offering brief therapeutic interventions, parents are increasingly turning to private practitioners... (more)
Supervision in the Helping Professions: Fourth Edition
The latest edition of this best selling book on supervision updates and expands the previous three editions with references to the developments and writing in the field. Since the publication of the... (more)
Spirituality and Religion in Counseling: Competency-Based Strategies for Ethical Practice
Spirituality and Religion in Counseling provides mental health professionals and counselors in training with practical information for understanding and responding to clients' needs using a spiritual... (more)
Skills in Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy
This is the definitive practical introduction to a skills-based approach in existential therapy. Accessible for those without a philosophical background, it describes the concrete and tangible... (more)
An Introduction to the Therapeutic Frame
Designed for psychotherapists and counsellors in training, An Introduction to the Therapeutic Frame clarifies the concept of the frame - the way of working set out in the first meeting between... (more)
Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Second Edition
Eagerly awaited by many counsellors and psychotherapists, this new edition includes an updated preface, new content on recent research and new developments and debates around relational depth, and... (more)
Skills in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy: Second Edition
Updated in a second edition, the book includes a new chapter on neuropsychology and its implications for theory and practice, new content on working in the NHS and other settings, additional case... (more)
Person-Centred Counselling in Action: Fourth Edition
It is now 25 years since the first edition of Person-Centred Counselling in Action appeared, offering the definitive exposition of the theory and practice of the person-centred approach. Since then... (more)
Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy in Practice: Third Edition
Offering a concrete framework and practical methods for working from an existential perspective, the bestselling Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy is now in its third edition.
Central to... (more)
The Handbook of Transcultural Counselling and Psychotherapy
This fascinating book examines recent critical thinking and contemporary research findings in the field of transcultural counselling and psychotherapy. It also explores the effects of different... (more)
Self-Harm: A Psychotherapeutic Approach
This book explores the issues involved from the perspective of the psychoanalytic psychotherapist - with the conviction that there is more to the behaviour than the acts themselves. (more)
An Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy: From Theory to Practice: Second Edition
This book introduces readers to everything they need to know about counselling and psychotherapy theory, skills and practice. Drawing on years of experience as a counselling practitioner and... (more)
Counselling Young People: A Practitioner Manual
This groundbreaking book takes a humanistic approach to counselling young people, establishing humanistic counselling as an evidence-based psychological intervention. Chapters cover:
* Therapeutic... (more)
Abolishing the Concept of Mental Illness: Rethinking the Nature of Our Woes
In Abolishing the Concept of Mental Illness: Rethinking the Nature of Our Woes, Richard Hallam takes aim at the very concept of mental illness, and explores new ways of thinking about and responding... (more)
An Introduction to Psychodynamic Counselling
This exciting volume in the Basic Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy series provides an authoritative and accessible introduction to psychodynamic counselling and its basic principles. Laurence... (more)
Psychotherapy and Counselling: A Professional Business
This title concerns the stresses a psychotherapist encounters over the course of his or her professional life and how these might be addressed. Cynthia Rogers has distilled her own and others'... (more)
Egan's Skilled Helper Model: Developments and Applications in Counselling
The skilled helper model of counselling is hugely influential in the helping professions. "Egan's Skilled Helper Model" brings a number of new and challenging perspectives to bear on Egan's work and... (more)
Counselling Adults with Learning Disabilities
Taking a psychodynamic approach, Counselling Adults with Learning Disabilities describes current theoretical ideas in this area. Theories are described in an accessible way, with detailed examples... (more)
Psychodynamic Counselling in Action: Fifth Edition
This substantially revised fifth edition of a classic text includes an updated preface, new content on the therapeutic relationship, substantially revised chapters on the middle phase of counselling... (more)
Professional Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Ethics and the Law
Developing and maintaining a secure framework for professional practice is a core part of any counselling and psychotherapy training, as all therapists need to understand the key values, ethics and... (more)
Cognitive Behavioural Counselling in Action: Third Edition
This best-selling, practical, evidence-based guide to the cognitive behavioural approach takes you step-by-step through the process of counselling, from initial contact with the client to termination... (more)
Short-Term Counselling in Higher Education: Context, Theory and Practice
As demand for counselling from students across Higher Education (HE) increases year on year, counselling services are continually seeking to explore creative ways of working under the pressure that... (more)
Effective Supervision for the Helping Professions: Second Edition
Using features such as case studies, exercises and points for reflection, this is an ideal introduction to managing the supervisory relationship for both trainee and supervisor. This second edition... (more)
Counselling Skills for Working with Trauma: Healing From Child Sexual Abuse, Sexual Violence and Domestic Abuse
A practical, introductory guide to counselling survivors of child abuse, neglect, rape, sexual violence, sexual trafficking, religious sexual abuse, and domestic abuse. Written in an accessible... (more)
Hope in Counselling and Psychotherapy
It has long been understood that engendering 'hope' is at the heart of the very aims and motivations of counselling, but until now, little attempt has been made to actually explain how and why it may... (more)
The Presenting Past: The Core Of Psychodynamic Counselling and Therapy: Fourth Edition
A person's past is ever present, from infancy to old age, and it always affects the dynamics of therapy and the therapist-patient relationship. Written by one of the most-cited counselling authors in... (more)