Individual Psychotherapy Books
Core Approaches in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Core Approaches in Counselling and Psychotherapy is a comprehensive guide to the four main psychological approaches (Humanistic, Psychodynamic, Behavioural and Cognitive) and introduces several of... (more)
What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders: Key Concepts, Insights, and Interventions
What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders is an integrated and practical approach to treating anxiety disorders for general psychotherapists. What is new and exciting is its focus on... (more)
Effortless Mindfulness: Genuine Mental Health Through Awakened Presence
Effortless Mindfulness promotes genuine mental health through the direct experience of awakened presence-an effortlessly embodied, fearless understanding of and interaction with the way things truly... (more)
Therapy with Tough Clients: Exploring the Use if Indirect and Unconscious Techniques
Whether you're fairly new to therapy or you've practiced for many years, no doubt at times you've found yourself stumped with certain clients who leave you feeling perplexed and discouraged with that... (more)
Philosophical Issues in Counseling and Psychotherapy: Encounters with Four Questions about Knowing, Effectiveness, and Truth
To become a counselor or psychotherapist, one must learn a confusing and conceptually disconnected array of theories, techniques, and ideologies. For instance, CBT, humanistic, and psychodynamic... (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)
Relational-Centred Research for Psychotherapists: Exploring Meanings and Experience
As an accessible introduction to setting up and conducting research, this book is the long-awaited answer to increasing competencies for psychotherapists and counsellors in clinical practice. (more)
Anxiety Disorders: A Guide for Integrating Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy
Anxiety Disorders: A Guide for Integrating Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy is a comprehensive reference for the psychology and psychiatry student, intern, or resident, early career psychologist... (more)
Relational Suicide Assessment: Risks, Resources, and Possibilities for Safety
Moving beyond the traditional paper-and-pencil self-report, this book offers therapists a new approach to suicide assessment. Guided by a relational understanding of the therapeutic process, it... (more)
Memory and Healing: Neurocognitive and Psychodynamic Perspectives on How Patients and Psychotherapists Remember
This book addresses the current demand to apply findings in neuroscience to a broad spectrum of psychotherapy practices. It offers clear formulations for what has long been missing in how... (more)
Introduction to Neuropsychotherapy: Guidelines for Rehabilitation of Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Patients Throughout the Lifespan
This groundbreaking volume provides a theoretical overview and clinical guidelines for the application of neuropsychotherapy. It takes a multidisciplinary approach, combining neuropsychological... (more)
Experiential Unity Theory and Model: Reclaiming the Soul
Experiential Unity Theory and Model was devised to address the current concerns dominating the field of group therapy and individual counseling. It is vital that any healing modality address the root... (more)
Maximising the Benefits of Psychotherapy: A Practice-based Evidence Approach
Maximising the Benefits of Psychotherapy critiques Evidence-Based Practice and describes other approaches to improving the effectiveness of therapy, such as Practice-Based Evidence and the use of... (more)
Still Practicing: The Heartaches and Joys of a Clinical Career
"Still practicing" has several meanings. Still practicing suggests that the balance of heartaches and joys must not deter us from pursuing a clinical practice. At the same time, still practicing... (more)
Creative Ethical Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Can I be a creative therapist without overstepping boundaries and risking complaints?
Can I practise safely and ethically whilst remaining true to my humanistic values?
This book answers... (more)
Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder (or Multiple Personality Disorder)
This book provides all of the information a practitioner needs in order to begin work with clients with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Drawing on experiences from her own practice and... (more)
Healing Intelligence: The Spirit in Psychotherapy - Working with Darkness and Light
Natural healing intelligence is one of the great mysteries of the psyche. It is inherently elusive yet lies at the core of all efforts to cure emotional wounds. Psychotherapy and counselling, when... (more)
Why Can't I Help this Child to Learn? Understanding Emotional Barriers to Learning
The book outlines theories of child development from the point of view of the kinds of relationships children make with adults and the effects of their relationships on their learning. In addition,... (more)
Exploring Therapy, Spirituality and Healing
Spirituality and healing are controversial issues in counselling and psychotherapy. This cutting edge text discusses the philosophical, practical and ethical issues involved in counselling and... (more)
In, Against and Beyond Therapy: Critical Essays Towards a Post-Professional Era
Explores some of the political, psychological and spiritual territory of working with the human condition. Collects together a series of devastating critiques examining the arguments around... (more)
Sex in Psychotherapy: Sexuality, Passion, Love, and Desire in the Therapeutic Encounter
Sex in Psychotherapy takes a psychodynamic approach to understanding recent technological and theoretical shifts in the field of psychotherapy. Lawrence Hedges provides an expert overview and... (more)
Clinical Pearls of Wisdom: 21 Leading Therapists Offer Their Key Insights
Pre-eminent psychotherapy clinicians offer advice on a variety of topics. This book collects the 'best of the best' in terms of leading therapists who are offering highlights from their years of... (more)
Crisis-Proof Your Practice: How to Survive and Thrive in an Uncertain Economy
Dealing with recession and market swings, this book explains why psychotherapy practices are especially vulnerable and how to keep them viable. It offers steps for practices in trouble, guidelines on... (more)
On the Ground After September 11: Mental Health Responses and Practical Knowledge Gained
On the Ground after September 11 is an insightful compilation of over one hundred personal and professional first-hand accounts of the September 11 experience - from the moment the first plane... (more)
Ethics for Psychotherapists and Counselors: A Proactive Approach
Utilizes positive discussions accompanied by a variety of thought-provoking exercises, case scenarios, and writing assignments to introduce readers to all the major ethical issues in psychotherapy.... (more)
Hope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicide
Few tasks are more important - and daunting - than to help someone who is suicidal to go beyond the darkness of hopelessness to the light of hope. This book is a unique resource providing fresh... (more)
Coming Out, Coming Home: Making Room for Gay Spirituality in Therapy
"Coming Out, Coming Home" increases the potential for spiritual growth and development in our society. Many books have been written and many opinions aired about gay rights and pro-gay theology, but... (more)
Culture and the Therapeutic Process: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals
While there are numerous resources for practitioners on the subject, the ambiguity remains of what actually constitutes effective multicultural counseling and psychotherapy and how it should be... (more)
Psychotherapy of Severe and Mild Depression
This work on depression offers information and conclusions drawn from case studies. The authors challenge biological reductionism in the mental health industry, but do not deny the contribution of... (more)
Research in Psychotherapy and Counselling
Introducing a range of methodologies which are used internationally in studying the outcomes and processes of therapy, the author describes different research designs and illustrates them through... (more)