The Single-Session Counselling Primer

This bestselling series presents unparalleled, comprehensive descriptions of key counselling approaches in the twenty-first century. Ideal for students requiring a theory bridge between introductory, intermediate and diploma courses or focused input for comparative essays and integrative theory assignments. In The Single-Session Counselling Primer: principles and practice, Windy Dryden outlines the why, what and how of single-session counselling and the evidence that supports it. He makes a powerful case for its wider availability alongside other forms of therapy. Where it is appropriate, focused, agreed and there is the possibility of further sessions (if need dictates), it can massively increase access to talking therapies and enable clients to take their own steps to effect real change in their lives.

Author Biography

Windy Dryden is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmith’s, University of London, and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society. He has authored or edited more than 230 books. His current interests are in single-session and very brief interventions within a therapy and coaching context. He has run training courses in single-session counselling in the UK and abroad and has contributed to its provision in university and college counselling throughout the UK. His goal is to disseminate single-session therapy throughout the NHS in the hope that it will provide immediate access to psychological therapies at the point of need.