Individual Psychotherapy Books
The Student Guide to Counselling and Psychotherapy Approaches
This pocket guide to modality approaches in counselling and psychotherapy is a one-stop-shop for trainees on introductory counselling courses. It describes 12 models of therapy, as well as... (more)
The LGBT Casebook
Even in today's more enlightened society, it takes courage for many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals to "come out of the closet" and embrace their sexual orientation and... (more)
Circular Therapeutics: Giving Therapy a Healing Heart
Internationally-recognized as elder healers, psychotherapists and authors, Hillary and Bradford Keeney invite therapists to open their hearts and journey back in time to discover ancient and... (more)
Schema Therapy in Practice: An Introductory Guide to the Schema Mode Approach
Schema Therapy in Practice presents a comprehensive introduction to schema therapy for non-specialist practitioners wishing to incorporate it into their clinical practice.
* Focuses on the current... (more)
Counselling and Spiritual Accompaniment: Bridging Faith and Person-centred Therapy
Counselling and Spiritual Accompaniment presents the key spiritually-focused writings of Brian Thorne, one of the most influential thinkers on the convergence of spirituality with counselling, along... (more)
Mindful and Effective Employees: A Training Program for Maximizing Well-Being and Effectiveness Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Workplace stress is a major employment issue which, left unchecked, eats into profits, reduces efficiency and leads to good staff handing in their notice. The benefits of reducing it are innumerable... (more)
Beckett and Bion: The (Im)Patient Voice in Psychotherapy and Literature
This book focuses on Samuel Beckett’s psychoanalytic psychotherapy with W. R. Bion as a central aspect both of Beckett’s and Bion’s radical transformations of literature and psychoanalysis. The... (more)
Preventing Boundary Violations in Clinical Practice
What do you do when you run into a patient in a public place? How do you respond when a patient suddenly hugs you at the end of a session? Do you accept a gift that a patient brings to make up for... (more)
The Cultural Context of Sexual Pleasure and Problems: Psychotherapy with Diverse Clients
Using rich case material and research presented by distinguished authorities in the fields of sex, couple, family, and psychotherapy, this edited book contributes to our efforts to help individuals... (more)
Motivational Interviewing in the Treatment of Anxiety
This wise and practical book provides effective strategies for helping therapy clients with anxiety resolve ambivalence and increase their intrinsic motivation for change. The author shows how to... (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)
The Therapist's Answer Book: Solutions to 101 Tricky Problems in Psychotherapy
Therapists inevitably feel more gratified in their work when their cases have better treatment outcomes. This book is designed to help them achieve that by providing practical solutions to problems... (more)
The Developing Practitioner: Growth and Stagnation of Therapists and Counselors
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the professional development of counselors and therapists over the career lifespan. Drawing on their own extensive experience as psychotherapists,... (more)
Handbook of Counseling and Psychotherapy in an International Context
Many factors in the world today, such as globalization and a rise in immigration, are increasing the need for mental health practitioners to acquire the ability to interact effectively with people of... (more)
Managing Depression, Growing Older: A Guide for Professionals and Carers
Even when he's grey around the muzzle, the black dog of depression can still deliver a ferocious bite. Depression can strike at any age, and it may appear for the first time as we get older, as a... (more)
The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation
How much of our identity or 'self' is truly representative of our own wants, needs, and goals in life and how much does it reflect the desires and priorities of someone else? Are we following our own... (more)
Refocused Psychotherapy as the First Line Intervention in Behavioral Health
Written by father-daughter psychologists Nick and Janet Cummings, this text provides proven patient-responsive interventions by practitioners who together have nearly a century of hands-on practice... (more)
A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis
Inspired by the progressive and humanistic origins of psychoanalysis, Lewis Aron and Karen Starr pursue Freud's call for a psychotherapy for the people. They present a cultural history that focuses... (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)
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)
Listening with Purpose: Entry Points into Shame and Narcissistic Vulnerability
This manual has been written for a wide range of dynamic practitioners involved in treating patients with narcissistically-infused issues. The treatment model and case material presented in Listening... (more)
Sexual Boundary Violations: Therapeutic, Supervisory, and Academic Contexts
Sexual boundary violations are considered the most series ethical infraction in the mental health profession, as well as in higher education and pastoral counseling. Recognized as unethical due to... (more)
Working from the Heart: A Therapist's Guide to Heart-Centered Psychotherapy
When therapists work in a heart-centered way, they feel freer to be both professionals and loving human beings. Working from the Heart advocates for a deeper understanding that the therapist's... (more)
Women Psychotherapists: Journeys in Healing
This book describes the real-life journeys of women psychotherapists: why each woman chose this profession and what she learned about others - and most importantly, about herself - in this choice.... (more)
Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy and Recovery
Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy and Recovery includes a unique mosaic of theoretical and practical clinical information, rich case studies, research findings, and a wealth of evidence-based practice... (more)
Presence and the Present: Relationship and Time in Contemporary Psychodynamic Therapy
Presence and the Present: Relationship and Time in Contemporary Psychodynamic Therapy offers salient points learned from the author's forty years of practice and teaching, and applies psychodynamic... (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)
Yoga Skills for Therapists: Mood-Management Techniques to Teach and Practice
Drawing on her study of multiple traditions and lineages from ancient yoga practices to current neuroscientific research on yoga benefits and contraindications Weintraub presents a compendium of... (more)
Clinical Intuition in Psychotherapy: The Neurobiology of Embodied Response
A systematic look at the role of "gut feelings" in psychotherapy.
What actually happens in psychotherapy, outside the confines of therapeutic models and techniques? How can clinicians learn to... (more)
Body Psychotherapy: History, Concepts, and Methods
Body psychotherapy, which examines the relationship of bodily and physical experiences to emotional and psychological experiences, seems at first glance to be a relatively new area and on the cutting... (more)