A Thinking Man

How to Think and Intervene Like an REBT Therapist
Windy Dryden
Routledge 2009
ISBN 978-0-415-48795-5 (pbk) £18.99
I liked this book a lot, partly because it is straightforward and ‘does what is says on the tin’. As you would expect from arguably the UK’s most authoritative REBT practitioner and teacher, the book, like an ideal REBT session, is [...]

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I recently attended a two-day gathering of several hundred people. This large group could be divided into several sub-groups, with each sub-group thinking that they were the ones who were right, they had the real truth, they were the ‘pure and faithful ones’, they were the ones who could ‘really help’. You would think [...]

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At the moment, anyone can claim to be a counsellor or psychotherapist in the UK.  The titles are not a protected ones, like ‘doctor’. There are, of course, professional bodies that reputable practitioners will belong to. The major professional bodies (the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, for example) are careful to distinguish [...]

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The stories are horrendous. Let me give you just a few.

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I wrote this paper some time ago and decided to give it another airing here.  As the internet is being increasingly used by counsellors and clients, it raises some security issues that surround the use of computers in this area.
It Wouldn’t Go Away

It was one of those things that I thought didn’t affect me. Electronic [...]

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