Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy : A Relational Approach

This is an accessible and user friendly guide to the theory and practice of relational counseling and psychotherapy. It offers a meta-theoretical framework for the integration of the three most popular counseling and psychotherapy modalities: humanistic, psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral including mindfulness and compassion based approaches.

This exciting new text outlines the history of integration in the field of psychotherapy and counseling, including clarifying the nature of psychotherapeutic integration, defining different models of integration, and providing a detailed guide to working with the Relational-Integrative Model (RIM) for a range of professional issues, including ethics, research, supervision, therapist self-care and personal development.

Brimming with vivid case examples, mind-maps and therapeutic dialogue, this invaluable book will help develop the theoretical knowledge and skills base of students, trainers and practitioners alike.

′In this solid, well-researched book, Faris and van Ooijen explain their Relational Integrative Model (RIM) ′ a holistic and relational model that honours the perspectives from different theories′ (p1). Faris and van Ooijen come from very different theoretical perspectives and so bring to the book a wide, inclusive and varied knowledge of therapy. This is an academic text, not light reading - a truly meaty read underpinned with extensive background research. But it will be accessible to any therapist, irrespective of their training′ -
Therapy Today

′Initially sceptical about yet another therapy ′approach′ or ′model′, this book quickly won me over with its copious wisdom rooted in a mature engagement with intersubjectivity, and with leading-edge pluralistic postmodern and contemplative perspectives. It is a major, integrating contribution to developing an alive, ′new paradigm′ approach to therapy that transcends schoolist parochialism, and challenges the worst excesses of overly ′modernist′ therapeutic ideologies and practices′ -
Dr Richard House, Research Centre for Therapeutic Education, Roehampton University; author of Therapy Beyond Modernity and In, Against and Beyond Therapy