Individual Psychotherapy Books
Sacred Therapies: The Kundalini Yoga Meditation Handbook for Mental Health
A simplified version, for consumers, of yoga protocols for optimal mental health.
This comprehensive handbook presents Kundalini yoga protocols that cover all of the major and common psychiatric... (more)
The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy
For decades Allan Schore has been a leader in developing an overarching model of people’s social and emotional development, integrating work from psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, attachment... (more)
The Transactional Analyst in Action: Clinical Seminars
This book represents a synthesis of more than thirty years dedicated to the spreading and teaching of transactional analysis, and will be useful to students, directors and professors of the schools... (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 Awareness and Personal Development: Resources for Counsellors and Psychotherapists
In counselling and psychotherapy, the professional's self understanding strongly governs the healing potential of the therapeutic relationship.Grounded in humanistic, psychodynamic and integrative... (more)
Manual of Panic-focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Extended Range
This manual presents a carefully researched, detailed psychodynamic treatment program for the alleviation of a transdiagnostic range of primary Axis I anxiety disorders, including panic disorder,... (more)
Gender in the Therapy Hour: Voices of Female Clinicians Working with Men
This edited book looks at how a variety of female therapists understand men's issues in the context of their clinical work. Each chapter is written by a female mental health professional and explores... (more)
Emotion Regulation in Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide
Highly practical and accessible, this unique book gives therapists powerful tools for helping patients learn to cope with feared or avoided emotional experiences. The book presents a menu of... (more)
Core Competencies in the Solution-Focused and Strategic Therapies: Becoming a Highly Competent Solution-Focused and Strategic Therapist
In the Solution-Focused and Strategic Therapy field this is a landmark book, the first to address all of the core and clinical competencies involved in running a practice, including learning and... (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)
Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy: Understanding and Addressing the Sacred
From a leading researcher and practitioner, this volume provides an innovative framework for understanding the role of spirituality in people's lives and its relevance to the work done in... (more)
Mindfulness and Hypnosis: The Power of Suggestion to Transform Experience
In recent years mindfulness has become integrated into many clinicians' private practices, and become a staple of hospital and university based treatment programs for stress reduction, pain, anxiety... (more)
Theory and Practice of Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
The book opens with an introduction to and history of the experiential dynamic therapies (EDT) including the groundbreaking Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) of Habib Davanloo and... (more)
Transforming Clinical Practice Using the MindBody Approach: A Radical Integration
This book assumes that it is no longer tenable to work in healthcare without considering the person as a whole being constituted by a rich weaving of mind, body, culture, family, spirit and ecology.... (more)
Therapeutic Encounter: A Cross-modality Approach
The therapeutic relationship is at the core of counselling training and practice, regardless of therapeutic approach. This book usefully introduces a cross-modality approach to the therapist-client... (more)
On Becoming a Psychotherapist: The Personal and Professional Journey
Psychotherapists have long debated about the personal and educational experiences that best prepare one for success in their profession. Does some precise combination of genetic endowment and... (more)
Vital Signs: Psychological Responses to Ecological Crisis
‘"Vital signs" are, of course, the basic physiological measures of functioning which health practitioners use to assess the gravity of a patient’s predicament. This anthology focuses not so much on... (more)
Psychological Therapies for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
Brings together contributions from leading proponents of psychological therapies for people with intellectual disabilities, which offer key information on the nature and prevalence of psychological... (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)
Despair and the Return of Hope: Echoes of Mourning in Psychotherapy
When unmourned experiences of helplessness and disavowed desires turn into a passive fatalism, people stop hoping for the best and fear the worst, despairing that the real world has anything good to... (more)
How to Incorporate Wellness Coaching into Your Therapeutic Practice: A Handbook for Therapists and Counsellors
Wellness coaching is an emerging and vibrant area of healthcare. It takes healing beyond the curing of symptoms and empowers clients to take their health back into their own hands. This book provides... (more)
Group and Individual Work with Older People: A Practical Guide to Running Successful Activity-based Programmes
Being active is fundamental to a person's sense of physical and mental wellbeing, and the need to engage in purposeful and meaningful activity does not diminish with age. However, common effects of... (more)
Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Relational Approach
This is an accessible and user friendly guide to the theory and practice of relational counselling and psychotherapy. It offers a meta-theoretical framework for the integration of the three most... (more)
Client Issues in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Person-centred Practice
This is the first book to focus on commonly occurring client issues and explore how to work with them from a person-centred perspective. Extensive case studies translate person-centred theory into... (more)
Legal Issues Across Counselling and Psychotherapy Settings: A Guide for Practice
This book provides practical examples and applications of the law as it applies to therapists in the many different contexts of their work. Helping practitioners move between different practice... (more)
The Pocket Guide to Therapy: A 'How To' of the Core Models
Trainees in all mental health professions need basic knowledge of the key therapeutic approaches in counselling and psychotherapy. The Pocket Guide to Therapy is therefore the essential companion,... (more)
Understanding Counselling and Psychotherapy
Focuses on common problems such as anxiety and depression, exploring how different therapeutic approaches understand and work with them. Counselling and psychotherapy are considered within the wider... (more)
Treating ADHD and Comorbid Disorders: Psychosocial and Psychopharmacological Interventions
Children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) frequently experience co-occurring problems with aggression, mood swings, tics, anxiety, or depression. Organized around... (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)
Masters of Narrative and Collaborative Therapies: The Voices of Andersen, Anderson and White
Tom Andersen, Harlene Anderson, and Michael White have shaped the landscapes of dialogical, collaborative, and narrative therapies. All three share a common curiosity for meaning making as a... (more)