Why are there so many approaches and new theories that proliferate in the world of counselling and psychotherapy? There are over 500 different types of psychotherapy in existence. Yes, that’s 500, not 5, or even 50. In addition, when you look at the adverts for continuing professional development (cpd) courses there is a whole host of new seemingly ‘sexy’ themes in course content such as trauma informed, neuroscience informed, parts based plurality, embodiment this and that, mindfulness approaches, somatic connecting and so on. All of these potentially exciting new approaches can be intent on chasing new insights, and potential silver bullet knowledge and information that could represent the missing ingredient in bringing about greater therapeutic change in the consulting room. The core ingredients for how therapeutic change occurs can appear to be less ‘sexy’. Who, for example, responds favourably to a cpd advert that refers to empathy in the title?
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