Individual Psychotherapy Books
Emotional Well-Being and Mental Health: A Guide for Counsellors and Psychotherapists
Well-being is an important topic for many different professions. From health professionals to politicians, a number of fields seek to research, understand and promote wellbeing. As a concept at the... (more)
Effective Psychotherapy for Individuals with Brain Injury
Combining scientific expertise with psychotherapeutic acumen, this book is highly accessible and packed with clinical tools. Part I provides essential information on how acquired brain injury affects... (more)
The Trauma Therapies
It is well recognized that those who go through a major trauma can go on to experience psychological problems. Many seek psychological help and there is a now a range of psychotherapies specifically... (more)
Anxiety and Depression: Effective Treatment of the Big Two Co-Occurring Disorders
Anxiety and depression are two of the most common complaints in therapy, and its not unusual for clients to suffer from both simultaneously. But spotting the co-occurrence is not easy. When one... (more)
Doing Practice-Based Research in Therapy: A Reflexive Approach
Learning how to use critical self-reflection creatively when practising therapy is an important component of training. This level of self-awareness is, however, often neglected in research, despite... (more)
Mindfulness for Therapists: Practice for the Heart
In order to help clients use mindfulness practices in their own lives, therapists need to have more than just an intellectual understanding of the field. Mindfulness for Therapists helps therapists... (more)
Cyclical Psychodynamics and the Contextual Self: The Inner World, the Intimate World, and the World of Society and Culture
Paul Wachtel is widely regarded as the leading advocate for integrative thinking in personality theory and the theory and practice of psychotherapy. He is a contributor to cutting edge thought in the... (more)
The Art of BART: Bilateral Affective Reprocessing of Thoughts as a Dynamic Model for Psychotherapy
The Art of BART (the Bilateral Affective Reprocessing of Thoughts) is a practitioner’s introduction to an innovative psychotherapy model that draws on and integrates well-proven therapies (such as... (more)
Behavioral Health: Integrating Individual and Family Interventions in the Treatment of Medical Conditions
The emergence of behavioral health, how it is practiced, and how it will be practiced is at the heart of this book. Len Sperry, a prominent author and educator, is one of the first to describe and... (more)
Progressive Counting Within a Phase Model of Trauma-Informed Treatment
Clinicians recognize trauma and loss as a prominent source of clients' problems. Progressive counting (PC) is a significant advance in trauma treatment because it is about as efficient, effective,... (more)
Managing Difficult Endings in Psychotherapy: It's Time
This book is about the difficulty of endings, but it is also about learning from the endings that we know have gone wrong as well as those that have worked well. It sets out how the psychological... (more)
The Essentials of Counselling and Psychotherapy in Primary Schools
The book is targeted at all practitioners in the helping and enabling professions working with children and young people, and is essential reading for anyone undertaking training where elements of... (more)
Metaphoria: Metaphor and Guided Metaphor for Psychotherapy and Healing
This is the comprehensive guide for all those wishing to explore the fascinating potential of metaphor. Conducting a systematic analysis of the effectiveness of metaphor, this work examines: the... (more)
Social Panoramas: Changing the Unconscious Landscape with NLP and Psychotherapy
Why am I unhappy with my social life? How can I improve my relationships? Why do I feel bullied and intimidated? The answers to all these questions are to be found in your social panorama. Social... (more)
Body Sense: The Science and Practice of Embodied Self-Awareness
Embodied self-awareness is the ability to feel our emotions and movements in the present moment, without the influence of judgmental thoughts (such as: Am I doing this right?). Body Sense offers a... (more)
The Art and Science of Motivation: A Therapist's Guide to Working with Children
The authors' groundbreaking approach to working with children and their parents or carers places motivation at the heart of all encounters and therapeutic activities.
The book provides readers... (more)
Solution-Focused Therapy: Third Edition
Struggling with the intricacies of Solution-Focused theory, skills or practice? Wanting to learn more about providing brief, practically-based solution-focused interventions across many therapeutic... (more)
Dynamic Psychotherapy with Adult Survivors: Living Past Neglect
Dynamic Psychotherapy with Adult Survivors: Living Past Neglect by Lori Bennett examines the aftereffects of emotional neglect in order to help clinicians to better serve survivors. Bennett makes an... (more)
The Importance of Suffering: The Value and Meaning of Emotional Discontent
n this book James Davies considers emotional suffering as part and parcel of what it means to live and develop as a human being, rather than as a mental health problem requiring only psychiatric,... (more)
Animal-Assisted Brief Therapy: A Solution-Focused Approach: Second Edition
This book provides therapists with concrete examples of how to appropriately implement Animal Assisted Activities/Therapy (AAA/T) to cultivate positive effects in treatment. It explains how this... (more)
Qualitative Research Methods in Mental Health and Psychotherapy: A Guide for Students and Practitioners
This book provides a user-friendly introduction to the qualitative methods most commonly used in the mental health and psychotherapy arena. Chapters are written by leading researchers and the editors... (more)
Therapeutic Communication: Knowing What to Say When: Second Edition
A uniquely practical guide and widely adopted text, this book shows precisely what therapists can say at key moments to enhance the process of healing and change. Paul Wachtel explains why some... (more)
Introduction to Feminist Therapy: Strategies for Social and Individual Change
Focuses on the practical application of feminist theory to clinical experience. Whereas other books in the area tend to focus on specific clinical issues encountered by women (such as sexual abuse or... (more)
The First Year and the Rest of Your Life: Movement, Development, and Psychotherapeutic Change
The movement repertoire that develops in the first year of life is a language in itself and conveys desires, intentions, and emotions. This early life in motion serves as the roots of ongoing... (more)
Counting Our Losses: Reflecting on Change, Loss, and Transition in Everyday Life
This text is intended to be a resource for clinicians who work with clients dealing with non-death and ambiguous losses (those that are not the result of a death, but of events that are difficult to... (more)
The Emergence of Somatic Psychology and Bodymind Therapy
Somatic psychology and bodymind therapy examine the body and the mind as a whole, emphasising the reciprocal relationships between the two. This branch of psychotherapy focuses on the body, body... (more)
Techniques of Hypnotic Induction
One of the most challenging parts of the practice of clinical hypnosis is the creation and use of hypnotic inductions. The therapy phase of the hypnotic process can consist of a story, an age... (more)
Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person: Improving Outcomes for That Minority of People Who are the Majority of Clients
In Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person, Dr Elaine Aron redefines the term highly sensitive. She dispels common misconceptions about the relationship between being sensitive and other... (more)
Complete Mental Health: The Go-to Guide for Clinicians and Patients
Complete Mental Health is a handy desk reference for the clinician, and an illuminating overview of common mental health problems for anyone.
John Ingram Walker takes the reader through causes,... (more)
Risk Assessment and Management in Mental Health Nursing
Explores how nurses can enhance their skills, and improve their practice so that risk is assessed and managed safely and effectively. This book also explores issues including context and definitions... (more)