Relational Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counselling Private Practice: Solidarity, Compassion, Justice [Hardcover]

This book explores the ethics around everything connected with setting up and running a therapy private practice.

This is a truly engaging and accessible book, an essential text for therapists at any stage in their private practice journey. The landscape of therapy has changed considerably in recent years, not least due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and Binstead & Sarantakis address wide ranging issues from the basics of contracting and finding our target market through to working online and the use of social media in a contemporary context. As such it is as valuable for trainee therapists and those just beginning to consider setting up in private practice as it is for practitioners such as myself who have been established for many years. Appropriately for a book about relational ethics it explores the various topics experientially, using thought-provoking case studies and exercises to prompt the reader to consider their own responses to ethical issues, rather than providing binary solutions. Solidarity, Compassion, Justice are themes throughout the book and I felt held by the authors commitment to those tenets. A long-overdue book in my view, one I highly recommend to anyone interested in the ethics of therapeutic work, not just those in private practice.

Susan Utting-Simon, senior accredited counsellor, psychotherapist & supervisor in private practice, former Chair of BACP Private Practice Division

This book offers a very comprehensive, in depth and thorough exploration of the different intersecting layers that make up private practice. A text which will be of benefit to new practitioners, this book offers a wide ranging exploration of just how one can construct the private practice environment within which our work can flourish and also within which our clients can feel safe, contained, and therefore feel met. There is another lalãy