Individual Psychotherapy Books
Creating a Meaningful Life: A Practical Guide for Counselors, Therapists, and Other Helping Professionals
Creating a Meaningful Life builds on the tenets of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) to answer some of life’s basic questions, such as "How do I create a meaningful, purposeful life?" and... (more)
Treatment for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors: An Integrative Psychodynamic Approach
Treatment for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors is the first book to establish the theory and practice of a psychodynamic approach to treating body-focused repetitive behavior disorders (BFRBDs),... (more)
Beyond Empathy: A Therapy of Contact-in-Relationship
Written by leaders in the field of relational integrative psychotherapy, this book offers trainees and experienced therapists a methodology for assisting people in rediscovering their ability to... (more)
The Gifts We Receive from Animals: Stories to Warm the Heart
The Gifts We Receive from Animals is a book guaranteed to brighten a reader’s day. Professionals engaged in therapy work as well as those who have companion animals at home will enjoy learning about... (more)
Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Initiating Individuation and Enabling Liberation
This book details a five-phase model of the process of forgiveness and reconciliation, exploring how it can be understood as a threshold experience with the potential to offer profound emotional... (more)
Principles of Counseling and Psychotherapy: Learning the Essential Domains and Nonlinear Thinking of Master Practitioners
Principles of Counseling and Psychotherapy: Third edition, helps students in introductory counseling courses prepare for practice with real clients by learning to think in a new way, rather than... (more)
Motherhood and Mental Illness: A Relational Treatment Approach
Motherhood and Mental Illness offers an in-depth, comprehensive relational psychotherapeutic framework to provide effective treatment for those experiencing maternal mental illness.
This book... (more)
Transforming Emotional Pain: An Emotion-Focused Workbook
Transforming Emotional Pain presents an accessible self-help approach to mental health based on Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT).
Based on the principles of EFT, and developed by clinicians and... (more)
The Compassionate Mind Approach to Difficult Emotions: Using Compassion Focused Therapy
Emotions bring purpose, pleasure and meaning to our lives. However, for many people, they are synonymous with distress, pain and suffering. Anger and rage can wreck relationships and cause problems... (more)
CFT Made Simple: A Clinician's Guide to Practicing Compassion-Focused Therapy
Created by world-renowned psychologist Paul Gilbert, compassion-focused therapy (CFT) is extremely effective in helping clients work through painful feelings of shame and self-criticism. However, the... (more)
The Compassionate Mind Approach To Postnatal Depression: Using Compassion Focused Therapy to Enhance Mood, Confidence and Bonding
It is well-known that having a baby can be a time of joy but also one of anxiety and even depression for new mothers. Indeed it is very common for new mothers to experience a short period of distress... (more)
The Compassionate Mind Workbook: A step-by-step guide to developing your compassionate self
There is good and increasing evidence that cultivating compassion for one's self and others can have a profound impact on our physiological, psychological and social processes. In contrast, concerns... (more)
Integrating Spirituality into Counseling: Methods and Practices
- A broad, concise and practical overview of the field
- Inspirational ways of understanding topics related to spirituality and counseling through an interdisciplinary lens
- Short but... (more)
Therapy and the Postpartum Woman: Notes on Healing Postpartum Depression for Clinicians and the Women Who Seek their Help
Written by a pioneer and continuing advocate for perinatal health, this book remains remains an enduring reference for any therapist working with pregnant or postpartum women and their families... (more)
Making Sense Together: The Intersubjective Approach to Psychotherapy
As in raising children, in which each unique parent and child pair emerges from the ongoing, mutually influencing relationship, so it is with therapists and patients. Peter Buirski argues that... (more)
The Strength-Based Clinical Supervision Workbook: A Complete Guide for Mental Health Trainees and Supervisors
Supervision is the cornerstone of clinical training across all types of mental health providers. It facilitates the growth of mental health trainees and maintains the integrity of the field of mental... (more)
The Bodily Roots of Experience in Psychotherapy: Moving Self
This book explores the significance of movement processes as they shape one’s experience through life. It provides a comprehensive, practical understanding of how we lose the wonder and curiosity we... (more)
The Language of the Soul in Narrative Therapy: Spirituality in Clinical Theory and Practice
The Language of the Soul in Narrative Therapy uniquely bridges the gap between narrative therapy and spirituality to describe how the theory and practice of narrative therapy may be expanded and... (more)
Self-in-Relationship Psychotherapy: A Complete Clinical Guide to Theory and Practice
In this innovative book, the authors set out their theory of Self-in-Relationship Psychotherapy (SIRP), advocating for the integration of relational, self, and physical intimacy needs in the... (more)
Physical Touch in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Transforming Trauma through Embodied Practice
This groundbreaking book presents a new model for incorporating the human body, and specifically physical touch, into psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, particularly for patients who have experienced... (more)
A Study of Malignant Narcissism: Personal and Professional Insights
A Study of Malignant Narcissism offers a unique insight into malignant narcissism, exploring both its personal and professional aspects and constructing a theoretical framework that renders its... (more)
Video Games in Psychotherapy
Video Games in Psychotherapy provides the reader with a practical session-by-session framework for using video games, interactive media, and gaming metaphors to help make the process of psychotherapy... (more)
Inspiration for the Weary Therapist: A Practical Clinical Companion
Inspiration for the Weary Therapist is a companion for the modern practitioner. Addressing a diverse audience and written by a master clinician and supervisor, Inspiration for the Weary Therapist... (more)
If Only…: Finding Freedom from Regret
It’s hard to envision a life without some regrets.You imagine what might have been if you had taken a different path at some key juncture, whether about a past relationship, a missed job opportunity,... (more)
Faith-Based ACT for Christian Clients: An Integrative Treatment Approach: Second Edition
Faith-Based ACT for Christian Clients balances empirical evidence with theology to give mental health professionals a deep understanding of both the "why" and "how" of acceptance and commitment... (more)
Empathy and Mental Health: An Integral Model for Developing Therapeutic Skills in Counseling and Psychotherapy
Empathy and Mental Health shows mental health professionals how to employ a deeper understanding of subjective, objective, and interpersonal modalities of empathy in their practice.
Chapters are... (more)
Safeguarding the Quality of Forensic Assessment in Sentencing: A Review Across Western Nations
This edited collection provides an interdisciplinary and cross-national perspective on safeguarding the quality of forensic assessment in sentencing offenders.
Taking an in-depth look at seven... (more)
Diversity and Marginalisation in Forensic Mental Health Care
This book explores the ways in which diversity and experiences of marginalisation are present in forensic mental health care settings around the globe and suggests ways of moving... (more)
Don’t Turn Away: Stories of Troubled Minds in Fractured Times
Over the course of her 40-year career, psychiatrist and psychotherapist Penelope Campling has worked with patients from all walks of life, from survivors of abuse to ICU doctors struggling under the... (more)
Risk Assessment in Forensic Practice
Risk Assessment in Forensic Practice sets out a concise critical review of the way in which risk is assessed in current forensic practice. Setting the area in its historical context, this text... (more)