Inside Counselling: Becoming and Being a Professional Counsellor

This innovative and creative book explores the experience of becoming and being a counsellor, and engaging in the therapeutic process.

The book enters the internal, subjective world of counselling through its characters: students, counsellors, clients, supervisors and the author himself. It weaves together their perspectives and uses `talk′ as its main medium - the talk of counselling and supervision sessions, training groups, workshops and students′ journals. In so doing, the book breaks away from traditional methods and conventions to present complex theories, difficult concepts and serious information in an engaging, focused and manageable way.

The book encourages readers to think subjectively, to question theories that come solely from outside, and to stay with and use their internal world as the main focus of counselling work. It also provides personal development exercises to help readers access long-forgotten feelings.