Sandra McKeever & Traci Postings 
A Student′s Guide to Therapeutic Counselling [PDF ebook] 

Introduction
Part I: Training to be a counsellor
Chapter 1: Working ethically and safely as a counselling professional
Chapter 2: The therapeutic relationship
Chapter 3: Working with client diversity in counselling work
Chapter 4: A User-centred Approach
Chapter 5: Working with self-awareness
Chapter 6: Counselling Skills and theory
Chapter 7: Working self reflectively
Part II: Practice Issues
Chapter 8: The counselling training placement
Chapter 9: Placement supervision
Chapter 10: Agency requirements
Chapter 11: Personal therapy requirements
Chapter 12: Trainee self-care and avoidance of burnout
Chapter 13: Writing a case study
Chapter 14: Recording a counselling session and analysing a transcript
Part III: Professional Issues
Chapter 15: What If?
Chapter 16: What Next?

Kelly is an experienced person-centred counsellor, supervisor and tutor. She has worked at CPCAB, the UK’s only awarding organisation specialising in counselling and psychotherapy, since 2017. In her role as Chief Professional Standards Officer, she oversees the valuable work of the qualification service to maintain the standards and relevance of CPCAB qualifications. Prior to this she spent many years working in substance misuse agency settings and also private practice work. She is passionate about high quality counselling education and championing the importance of human connection in training. She is an advocate for inclusive vocational training pathways towards becoming a counsellor and enabling students to flourish and gain self-understanding through their training. She has a particular interest in supporting practitioners taking their first steps into the field of counselling and found her years teaching diploma programmes hugely inspirational.