COUNSELLING & PSYCHOTHERAPY
Are you confused about the many approaches to counselling and psychotherapy? Unsure about which form of therapy to enter as a client or trainee? You are not alone! Many people do not understand the difference between the many therapies on offer. Sometimes it is difficult to obtain unbiased information.
This website provides information about twenty three approaches to counselling and psychotherapy.
Each approach is summarised in one page for your ease. If you wish to obtain further guidance about counselling or psychotherapy, visit the useful links page which includes a number of professional organisations that hold registers of practitioners.
The information on this website has been taken from the recently published book:
INTRODUCTION TO COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE
Edited by Professor Stephen Palmer PhD and published by Sage, London, 2000.
An abridged version by Professor Stephen Palmer PhD and Professor Shima Satoru MD is now published in Japanese through the Tuttle-Mori Agency, Tokyo, 2001.