• Preface


• 1. Psychotherapy and Counselling


• Part 1: Contemporary Horizons of Practice


• Introduction


• 2. Feminist therapy: theories and practices


• 3. First Nations Healing: Indigenous Approaches to Counselling.


• 4. Diagnosis gone mad: Being present at the edge of 'difference'


• 5. The ethics of touch in contemporary psychotherapy


• 6. Using Film in Counselling and Psychotherapy


• Part 2: Relational Therapies


• Introduction


• 7. Therapy that fits: Feedback informed, client directed counselling


• 8. The Relational World of Existential Therapy and Counselling


• 9. Transforming anger in a colourful life


• 10. Adaptation and change in both client and counsellor, in a sexual abuse case


• 11. Kim: A case study demonstrating recovery from complex trauma


• Part 3: Expressive Therapies


• Introduction


• 12. Play Therapy


• 13. Dance movement therapy as a specialized form of counselling and psychotherapy


• 14. Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP)


• 15. From Fragmentation to Integration: Re-storying professional identity as a narrative therapist


• Part 4: Integrative Approaches


• Introduction


• 16. Metaphor in Counsellor Training


• 17. Stories of Constancy and Change: A Narrative Odyssey


• 18. The Artistry and Therapeutic Practice of Hypnotherapy


• 19. Moving Beyond Embodiment to 'Animation'-based Psychotherapy and Counselling


• 20. In search of myself: An integrative approach to working with a transgendered woman


• Part 5: Psychodynamic Therapies


• Introduction


• 21. Embodied imagination: Working with dreams and memories to facilitate therapeutic change


• 21. Mental Illness or Complex Trauma? : From diagnosis to recovery


• 22 'Forget Me Not'- My Journey through Jungian Analysis - a Case Presentation

Professor Carolyn Noble, Inaugural Head of School of Social Work and Professor of Social Work, Australian College of Applied Psychology, PhD, Master of Social Work, Bachelor of Social Work (University of New South Wales).
Dr Elizabeth Day, Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of School in Counselling and Psychotherapy, Australian College of Applied Psychology, PhD (MU), Advanced Diploma of Relational Gestalt Psychotherapy (Gestalt Therapy Australia), Advanced Certificate in Gestalt Counselling (Gestalt Therapy Australia), Bachelor of Arts (Hons) (Melb).

With an interest in appealing to a wide readership, Counselling and Psychotherapy: Reflections on Practice, is intended to provide a balance of engaging and in-depth stories from the inside of therapy, with theoretical frameworks that inform the practices, and commentary to elucidate elements of the work. As a result readers can come away with a considerable breadth and depth of knowledge of psychotherapy and counselling as it is shaping up today in Australia, and globally.