A New Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy

This pioneering textbook serves as an authoritative and practical introduction to counselling and psychotherapy while also systematically embedding the implications of "client in context" into the foundational pillars of therapeutic knowledge and practice: self-development, theory, relationship, skills, and ethical fair practice.

Mamood Ahmad a psychotherapist, lecturer, speaker, and Whole Person DEI consultant, as well as the founder of The Anti-Discrimination Focus community. Established in 2020, this community aims to promote equity by design within the educational foundations of therapeutic practice. As a UKCP Psychotherapist with over a decade of experience in private practice, with specialisms in trauma, multicultural competence and social change, his primary focus now is professional standards change, which is the central rationale for this book.