Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy

Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Textbook is an engaging and comprehensive guide to integrative counselling, providing an explanation of the theoretical ideas underpinning person-centred, interpersonal, cognitive-behavioural (CBT) and hypnotherapeutic modalities.

Basia Spalek is a Visiting Professor in Conflict Transformation at the University of Derby. She is also a BACP accredited counsellor, working within the student counselling services at the University of Leicester, with also her own private practice. Mark Spalek is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, NLP Practitioner and Brief Solution Focussed Therapist. He is also a Lecturer in Music Technology at Leicester College and De Montfort University.

Introduction 1. Presence for Mental Health and Wellbeing; an integrative approach 2. Processing Emotional and Psychological Distress Integratively 3. Attachment as an Integrative Concept 4. Thinking, through an Integrative Therapeutic Lens 5. Working Integratively with our Unconscious and Conscious Minds 6. Working Integratively with Bereavement and Loss 7. Working Integratively with Anxiety 8. Working Integratively with Depression 9. Working Integratively with Relationships 10. Working Integratively with Shame and Guilt Conclusion