Loss and Hope: 25 Years in Humanistic Psychology

Self & Society, December 2023. Personal reflections on my time working in counselling and psychotherapy.

First Steps in Counselling - An Introductory Companion (5th Edition, 2021)

Co-authored with Pete Sanders and Paula J Williams, an update to this introductory textbook for student counsellors and other helpers. Available here from PCCS Books.

What’s Haunting SCoPEd?

Critical analysis of the SCoPEd competency framework project, published in 2021 at the Alliance for Counselling & Psychotherapy blog.

Staying Afloat: Hope and Despair in the Age of IAPT

Chapter 7 in The Industrialisation of Care: counselling, psychotherapy and the impact of IAPT (eds. Jackson C & Rizq R), PCCS Books: 2019. The impact of NHS therapy on counselling, psychotherapy and our understanding of psychological distress.

Carl Rogers: Absence and Presence in the Contemporary Therapy Landscape

Chapter 11 (pp. 149-159) in Humanistic Psychology: Current Trends & Future Prospects (eds. House R, Kalisch D & Maidman J), Routledge: 2018. One of Carl Rogers' formative experiences as a therapist is sketched as an allegory for the current challenges facing the therapy professions.

Introductory commentary

Counselling, Class and Politics: Undeclared Influences in Therapy (second edition) by Anne Kearney, PCCS Books: 2018. Commentary chapter for the second edition of Kearney's classic text on class and politics in therapy.

Person-Centred Therapy and the Regulation of Counsellors & Psychotherapists in the UK

Chapter 21 (pp. 376-387) in The Handbook of Person-Centred Therapy & Mental Health (ed. Stephen Joseph), PCCS Books: 2017. Co-authored with David Murphy, the chapter sets out the conflicts between the Person-Centred Approach and systems of state regulation.

Standing on the Edge

Therapy Today, September 2017, pp. 30-33. Investigates the closure of the University of East Anglia's internationally renowned post-graduate training course in person-centred therapy. Edited version of a longer article published on the Alliance for Counselling & Psychotherapy blog: UEA Course Closures - An Attack on Values.

Ethical Dilemmas & Dialogues (Column editor 2012 to 2015)

Quarterly column for Self & Society - An International Journal for Humanistic Psychology, exploring ethical dilemmas in counselling and psychotherapy.

Talking Point: All need not always have prizes

Therapy Today, May 2014. Reflecting on the personal and political issues around the practice of voluntary working.

Talking Point: Back to the future

Therapy Today, February 2012. A look at the resurgence in student protests, from the perspective of a counsellor and one-time student protester myself.

The Bad Faith of Evidence-Based Practice: Beyond Counsels of Despair

Therapy Today, July 2011, pp. 26-29. Co-authored with Jennifer Maidman and Richard House, the article challenges the call for more randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in therapy research.

Inside Outsider (2008 to 2010)

Quarterly column for the journal ipnosis.

'Dare We Do Away with Professionalism?'

Therapy Today, May 2009, pp. 26-29. The person-centred case against the proposed statutory regulation of counsellors and psychotherapists by the Health Professions Council.