Individual Psychotherapy Books
Person-Centred Therapy: 100 Key Points: Second Edition
Person-centred therapy, rooted in the experience and ideas of the eminent psychotherapist Carl Rogers, is widely practised in the UK and throughout the world. It has applications in health and social... (more)
Healing the Heart and Mind with Mindfulness: Ancient Path, Present Moment
Healing the Heart and Mind with Mindfulness is a practical book that provides strategies using mindfulness to manage stress, anxiety and depression, as well as ways to cultivate psychological... (more)
Psychotherapy: New Research
This book explores new research in psychotherapy including dyadic developmental psychotherapy and its primary components; hope-focused couple enrichment (HFCE) analysis; body-psychotherapy and... (more)
From Psycho-Analysis to Culture-Analysis: A Within-Culture Psychotherapy
From Psycho-Analysis to Culture-Analysis confronts the barriers that face the cross-cultural application of western psychotherapy. It puts forward an argument for applying culture analysis, in which... (more)
Mental Health in the Digital Age
The internet can now be reached by a fingertip on a smart phone and has changed our lives on a fundamental level. However, is mental health enhanced or diminished by this digitisation of our world?... (more)
Psychotherapy: A Very Short Introduction
Psychotherapy and counselling are now widely available to help people overcome emotional and psychological difficulties in their lives. They involve spending time with a professional in an... (more)
101 Solution-Focused Questions Series Set
This 3-book set offers step-by-step guides to conducting successful solution-focused therapy for common client problems.
This series of short guidebooks invites professionals to help clients... (more)
Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy: Mindfulness-Based Practices for Healing and Transformation
This lucidly written guide integrates cutting-edge neuroscience with mindfulness and traditional Buddhist practices to show mental health professionals how they can help clients develop a more... (more)
The Therapist in the Real World: What You Never Learn in Graduate School (but Really Need to Know)
Graduate school and professional training for therapists often focus on academic preparation, but there's a lot more that a therapist needs to know to be successful after graduation. With warmth,... (more)
Nutrition Essentials for Mental Health: A Complete Guide to the Food-Mood Connection
A major component of a client's clinical profile is diet, which can greatly influence mental well-being. For example, dietary changes can alleviate anxious and depressive symptoms. But few therapists... (more)
Researching Lesser-Explored Issues in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Peter Madsen Gubi and Valda Swinton have brought together important research into little-explored topics that are applicable to the field of counselling and psychotherapy. Each contributor has... (more)
Psychotherapy Essentials to Go (6 Book Set)
Shrink-wrapped set of six titles in the Psychotherapy Essentials to Go series.
Rigorously field-tested by on-the-ground clinicians, these practical guidebooks provide easy-to-use, evidence-based... (more)
The Recovered Voice: Tales of Practical Psychotherapy
What happens in psychotherapy and when it is helpful? With twelve case reports covering the most frequent disorders requiring psychotherapy, the prominent psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and... (more)
False Bodies, True Selves: Moving Beyond Appearance-Focused Identity Struggles and Returning to the True Self
False Bodies, True Selves explores the phenomenon of growing numbers of people in western society and beyond completely embedding their sense of identity in their appearance. Unlike other books which... (more)
Person-Centred Practice at the Difficult Edge
This book presents accounts of the practice of the person-centred approach (PCA) with people suffering from a range of severe and enduring conditions. Comprehensively refuting the notion that... (more)
Values and Ethics in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Understanding values and ethics is a core part of any counselling training and students need to develop an ethical awareness that they can apply throughout the counselling process. Gillian Proctor... (more)
Handbook of Emotion Regulation
Reviewing the state of the science in a dynamic, thriving field, this influential handbook integrates knowledge from multiple psychological subdisciplines. Foremost experts address the... (more)
The Therapeutic Relationship in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Unravelling the issues surrounding the therapeutic relationship, this book highlights the importance of the relationship itself, of the client as a proactive agent in the process, and of the need for... (more)
Making the Most of Counselling and Psychotherapy Placements
Struggling to secure the right counselling or psychotherapy placement for you? Unsure of how to deal with complex challenges or how to make sure you get the most out of your placement? Then you have... (more)
The Beginner's Guide to Counselling and Psychotherapy: Second Edition
Are your students interested in the field of counselling and psychotherapy or just starting out in their training? If they are trying to get to grips with the many different approaches and decide... (more)
Thrive: The Power of Psychological Therapy
A ground-breaking argument for better treatment of mental health from Richard Layard (author of Happiness) and David M. Clark. Britain has become a world leader in providing psychological therapies.... (more)
Breathing as a Tool for Self-Regulation and Self-Reflection
The book describes how to use breathing as a medium for self-regulation and self-reflection and how balanced breathing thus helps to promote mental and physical health and alleviate symptoms... (more)
The Quest to Feel Good
Emotions, rather than simply being the result of random or disordered biochemical processes, are adaptive mechanisms that are often overly relied upon as a function of basic learning processes. The... (more)
In Search of Aphrodite: Women, Archetypes and Sex Therapy
What does it mean to be in search of Aphrodite? For most women, sex is complex, and more than a juxtaposition of body parts. Women sense the possibility of depth, meaning, even transcendence, but in... (more)
The Creative Therapist: The Art of Awakening a Session
In The Creative Therapist, Bradford Keeney makes the case that creativity is the most essential aspect of vibrant, meaningful, and successful therapy. No matter what therapeutic orientation one... (more)
Therapy and the Postpartum Woman: Notes on Healing Postpartum Depression for Clinicians and the Women Who Seek Their Help
This book provides a comprehensive look at effective therapy for postpartum depression. Using a blend of professional objectivity, evidence-based research, and personal, straight-forward suggestions... (more)
Psychotherapist Revealed: Therapists Speak About Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy
In this edited volume, the real dialogue begins. Therapists speak openly and honestly about their self-disclosure practices, decisions and clinical dilemmas. Bloomgarden and Mennuti bring together... (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)
Cyberbullying: From Theory to Intervention
The study of cyberbullying has exploded since its first appearance in a peer-reviewed journal article in 2005. Cyberbullying: From Theory to Intervention aims to make clear and practical sense of... (more)
When Psychological Problems Mask Medical Disorders: A Guide for Psychotherapists: Second Edition
Widely regarded as a standard clinical resource, this book helps practitioners think outside the mental health box and recognize when a client may urgently need a medical evaluation. Part I provides... (more)