Counselling Books
Supporting People Through Loss and Grief: An Introduction for Counsellors and Other Caring Practitioners
What are the different theories of grief? What skills do you need for effective counselling? How can you support people experiencing loss and grief? This handbook provides a comprehensive guide to... (more)
Assessing and Treating Culturally Diverse Clients: A Practical Guide: Fourth Edition
Now in its Fourth Edition, Assessing and Treating Culturally Diverse Clients offers effective, practical guidelines in working with culturally diverse clients. Author and clinician Freddy A. Paniagua... (more)
Practical Counselling and Helping Skills: Text and Activities for the Lifeskills Counselling Model: Sixth Edition
This sixth edition of Richard Nelson-Jones' bestselling book provides you with a step-by-step guide to using counselling and helping skills with confidence and proficiency. The author's three-stage... (more)
A Short Introduction to Counselling
A Short Introduction to Counselling provides a clear overview of the therapy profession for those embarking on professional training. It explains what it really means to become a professional... (more)
Gestalt Counselling in Action: Fourth Edition
Petruska Clarkson's classic text is the definitive introduction to Gestalt therapy. This fourth edition, updated by Simon Cavicchia, covers the latest in Gestalt theory, research and practice.... (more)
Mindful Counselling and Psychotherapy: Practising Mindfully Across Approaches and Issues
This book breaks new ground by relating mindfulness to all of the other therapeutic approaches, across all the common presenting problems in counselling and psychotherapy. Mindfulness is increasingly... (more)
Therapy with Children and Young People: Integrative Counselling in Schools and Other Settings
Counselling with Children and Young People provides a distinctive focus on child therapy in school settings, addressing in a unique level of detail. The authors adopt a broad ecosystematic,... (more)
Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide
Questions of sexuality and gender affect everyone and therefore have an inevitable relevance in the consulting room. Yet with interpretations and manifestations of both varying greatly from person to... (more)
What You Really Need to Know About Counselling and Psychotherapy Training: An Essential Guide
Becoming a counsellor or psychotherapist is a transformative and life-changing experience. Some trainees manage this process well, while others struggle to come to terms with the personal impact of... (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)
School Counsellors Working with Young People and Staff: A Whole-School Approach
What is it like to work as a counsellor in schools? What relationship might a counsellor have with staff? How can a counsellor become a positive, integral part of school life? In this book, Nick... (more)
Personal Consultancy: A Model for Integrating Counselling and Coaching
Making the case for an integrated approach to the practices of counselling, psychotherapy and coaching, Personal Consultancy provides a coherent and systematic framework for working with clients.... (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)
Telephone Counselling: A Handbook for Practitioners
The use of the telephone as a tool for counselling is increasingly appealing, providing clients with a service that combines accessibility and convenience. But how can practitioners ensure the same... (more)
The Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Counselling: Second Edition
Building on the success of the first edition, this substantially revised and extended new edition is set to remain the most in-depth and wide-ranging book available on person-centred psychotherapy... (more)
Finding Love in the Looking Glass: A Book of Counselling Case Stories
Never has there been such a hunger to understand relationships, both with our self and with others, and this book contains valuable insights into the fascinating and dynamic dialogues between clients... (more)
Counselling Skills For Dummies: Second Edition
Discover the practical skills for helping others. Whether you are considering becoming a counsellor, have to provide some form of counselling as part of your job, or are simply interested in... (more)
Being and Relating in Psychotherapy: Ontology and Therapeutic Practice
Clients who seek therapy often feel they are struggling with their whole being: their emotional, physical, relational and social selves. Understanding this is crucial to developing a successful... (more)
Understanding Research in Counselling
Many counselling courses have a strong research element built into the modules and students are expected to gain a thorough understanding of research issues early on in their studies. This accessible... (more)
Transactional Analysis Counselling in Action: Fourth Edition
An unrivalled introduction to the core concepts and basic techniques of Transactional Analysis (TA). Each chapter takes the reader through the successive stages in using TA to create therapeutic... (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)
Narrative Counseling in Schools: Powerful and Brief: Second Edition
Narrative counselling in schools is based on the premise that stories, rather than hard-nosed realities, shape our lives. By changing the stories that negatively label and define students, we help... (more)
Mental Health Law: A Practical Guide: Second Edition
Completely updated to reflect current changes in the law and in practice, Mental Health Law: A Practical Guide is a concise and approachable handbook to mental health law for students and... (more)
Effective Supervision for Counsellors: An Introduction
Supervision is an essential part of counselling training and ensuring you get the very best supervision is important to all students, at all levels. This book introduces both 'new' and 'in-training'... (more)
Spirituality in Counseling and Psychotherapy: An Integrative Approach That Empowers Clients
Spirituality and Religion in Counseling and Psychotherapy offers a practical approach that utilizes thematically based, personally accessible notions of spirituality and an integration of various... (more)
Transformation Through Journal Writing: The Art of Self-reflection for the Helping Professions
Transformation through Journal Writing is a grounded guide to self reflection through journaling for those in the helping professions. Journals are shown to be an effective method of self-care and... (more)
Working with Drug and Alcohol Users: A Guide to Providing Understanding, Assessment and Support
Working with Drug and Alcohol Users provides an accessible guide to substance use and working with substance users. Using transactional analysis theory, the author explains why some people use... (more)
Spiritism and Mental Health
Practiced in community centers and psychiatric hospitals throughout Brazil, Spiritist therapies are gaining increasing recognition internationally for their ability to complement conventional... (more)
The Life of Things: Therapy and the Soul of the World
What would psychology look like if we took the planet seriously? Ecopsychologists are, on the whole, more interested in our relations with the earth than our relations with each other. They find... (more)
Carl Rogers: The China Diary
In 1922, at just 20 years of age, farm boy Carl Rogers embarked on a journey halfway around the world. His China diary provide an intimate portrait of a young man exploring his faith, his purpose,... (more)