A New Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy: Embedding Context, Diversity, and Equity into Practice [Paperback]

This pioneering textbook serves as an authoritative and practical introduction to counselling and psychotherapy while also systematically embedding the implications of client in context into the foundational pillars of therapeutic knowledge and practice: self-development, theory, relationship, skills, and ethical fair practice.

Mamood Ahmad?a psychotherapist, lecturer, speaker, and?Whole Person DEI consultant, as well as the founder of The Anti-Discrimination Focus community. Established in 2020, this community aims to promote equity by design within the educational foundations of therapeutic practice. As a UKCP Psychotherapist with over a decade of experience in private practice, with specialisms in trauma, multicultural competence and social change, his primary focus now is professional standards change, which is the central rationale for this book.

'There is a gaping hole in (most) psychotherapeutic training and practice where the integration of systems, history, culture, identity, knowledge, power and privilege should be acknowledged but is not. This book pulls us out of that hole and places personal context, intersectionality and embodiment front and centre. To call this book an introduction is to do it a disservice, and to keep it only for trainees is to deny the rest of us so many valuable opportunities to grow our thinking. Monumental in size, scale and significance, this is the book the therapy world has been waiting for.' 

Jeanine Connor, psychodynamic psychotherapist, supervisor, editor and author of (among other things) Youre Not My F*cking Mother and other things Gen Z say in therapy and Stop F*cking Nodding and other things 16 year olds say in therapy

'This is an essential read for anyone involved in therapeutic training anl#Ö