Navigating Relational Ethics in Day-to-day Practice: Working Ethically in the Counselling Professions

The first in a new series on ethics in the counselling professions, Navigating Relational Ethics in Day-to-Day Practice contextualises the series and provides a practical ‘how to’ guide for bringing the theoretical concepts of ethics into practice.

Lynne Gabriel and Andrew Reeves provide a compelling explanatory narrative on the importance of translating ethical concepts into meaningful pragmatic practice and practitioner tools. They set out key theories, concepts, and contemporary challenges in practice ethics, offering multiple lenses through which to make meaning of complex practice or risk scenarios and settings. Importantly, the book considers contemporary concepts associated with social justice including working in anti-oppressive ways. The chapters feature an array of engaging material, including a round table dialogue on working ethically in day-to-day practice, a ‘toolkit’ for working ethically across multiple contexts and presenting issues, and a rich collection of case examples from the authors’ lived experience.

This text supports trainees and practitioners in taking ethical frameworks into their direct work with clients and in their wider role in practice.

Lynne Gabriel is a British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) Accredited and Registered Counsellor and Psychotherapist. She is Founder-Director of the York St John University Communities Centre and founder of the associated Training, Research and Counselling Clinic Consortium (TRaCCs). In 2023, Lynne was appointed President of BACP.

Andrew Reeves is a BACP Senior Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist and an EMCC Senior Accredited Coach and Coach Supervisor. He has worked as a practitioner for nearly 40 years in a full range of working settings, including adult mental health crisis intervention. His research area is working with risk in the helping professions, and he has published widely in this area.