Counselling for Depression: A Person-centred and Experiential Approach to Practice

This groundbreaking book takes a humanistic – person-centred and experiential – approach to counselling the most commonly presenting client issue: depression. For the first time, it establishes humanistic counselling as an evidence-based psychological intervention.

Chapters cover:

• Evidence-based practice and person-centred and experiential therapies
• The Counselling for Depression (Cf D) competence framework
• The Cf D therapeutic stance
• Working briefly
• In-depth case studies illustrating Cf D in practice
• Training, supervision and research.

The book is vital reading for those taking Cf D training or a broader counselling and psychotherapy course, and for researchers and NHS workers wishing to enhance their practice.