For counsellors who define themselves as person-centred but who have had no substantial training, it should be compulsory reading' -" British Journal of Guidance & Counselling

"Dave Mearns has drawn on the lived experiences of both trainers and trainees to demonstrate the potential range and importance of training in this field.

Represents a contribution to the development of the person-centred approach. This title is intended for teachers and students of counselling and psychology and those who consider themselves to be person-centred in their approach to helping clients.

How hard it is to find a book to recommend to trainees, which will give them an insight into what counselling (and psychotherapy too, for that matter) is really like. This book does exactly that... This is a book which would be equally useful to the humanistic practitioner and the more orthodox one. The breadth of sympathy is admirable in dealing with what is common to all orientations. This is one of those rare books which does justice both to the human experiences involved in counselling and psychotherapy, and to the theory which might explain those experiences' - "Changes

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What is...

Looking in depth at the therapeutic meeting between therapist and client, this now includes an updated preface, new content on recent research and new developments and debates around relational depth, and new case studies.