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Pluralistic Practice

Celebrating diversity in therapy

  • Home
  • About
    • How Pluralistic Therapy Works
    • Introduction to Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy
    • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on the pluralistic approach
    • Writing a Blog for Pluralistic Practice
  • Training
    • Degree Courses
    • Master’s Courses
    • Doctoral Courses
  • Research
    • Research Initiatives
    • Evidence to Support Pluralistic Practice
    • Research News
  • Publications
  • Tools and Measures
  • Videos
  • Events
    • Network Meetings
    • Pluralistic Conference 2020
    • Past Networking Events
  • Blog

Welcome

Pluralistic Therapy Cards, by Shirley Brennan

Welcome to our pluralistic practice website. We hope you find it an interesting and valuable resource for developing pluralistic thinking and practice in the counselling and psychotherapy field.

Pluralistic counselling and psychotherapy is based on two key principles:

  • There’s no ‘best’ way of doing therapy: different clients need different things at different times. 
  • If therapists want to find out the best way of helping clients, they should talk to them about it. 

This doesn’t mean that clients will always know what they want, or that what clients want is what they need; but that any views that clients have on how best to do therapy should be actively elicited, respected, and engaged with.

Pluralism in counselling and psychotherapy can be both an attitude towards therapy and a specific practice. 

  • Pluralistic attitude: a general respect for different approaches, and a willingness to help clients find the right therapy for them. That means that therapists who practice ‘pure form’ therapies—like person-centred counselling or CBT—can still consider themselves pluralistic. 
  • Pluralistic practice: a form of therapy in which the practitioner draws on a range of methods and understandings to try and tailor the therapy to the individual client—based on what they and the client think may be most helpful.
What is the pluralistic approach to therapy? Tamsin Cavaliero did this fantastic graphic translation of a recent talk by Mick Cooper introducing pluralism. Click here to listen to the presentation.

This Pluralistic Practice website is the central hub for information and resources about the pluralistic approach, developed by the leading people in the field. It is primarily orientated towards counsellors and psychotherapists who identify with, or are interested in, the pluralistic approach; but it is also accessible to clients and other interested laypeople.

If you are interested in contributing to the website we welcome blog posts. You can also join our Facebook discussion group @pluralisticpractice , or see our posts on Twitter @PluralPractice , or Instagram @pluralisticnetwork .

You can also email us with your comments and ideas.

Marc Johnson, Abertay University, has developed a fantastic new video on developing a timeline map.

Blog Post Categories

  • Arts therapies (7)
  • CBT (1)
  • Children (1)
  • Co-production (3)
  • CPD (2)
  • Critiques (5)
  • Cultural diversity (3)
  • Cultural resources (5)
  • Deliberate practice (2)
  • Epistemology (1)
  • Gender (1)
  • Goals (3)
  • groups (2)
  • Information and Updates (10)
  • Integrative and Eclectic Practices (1)
  • Leadership (2)
  • Networking (1)
  • No Category (2)
  • Older adults (1)
  • Online (1)
  • Person-centred (6)
  • Personal (21)
  • Philosophy (14)
  • Policy (2)
  • Politics (5)
  • Practice (24)
  • Preferences (10)
  • Research (9)
  • Shared decision making (12)
  • Spirituality (1)
  • Strengths and Resources (1)
  • Supervision (2)
  • Therapeutic approaches (7)
  • Training (17)
  • Young people (2)

Recent Posts

  • Pluralistic Practitioners Network: Creativity and Storytelling Gathering January 18, 2021
  • The Strength that We Find in Our New Everyday January 5, 2021
  • Survey of Pluralistic Practice: Key Findings December 17, 2020
  • Pluralistic Therapy Cards: Playing with Potential November 26, 2020
  • Personal and Professional Development Groups in Counselling and Psychotherapy Training: A Pluralistic Perspective November 23, 2020
  • Focus: Finding my Strengths in Pluralistic Practice October 30, 2020
  • How Do You Ask Clients About Their Preferences? October 19, 2020
  • Metamodernism and Pluralism October 9, 2020
  • Pluralistic Practice Network: Creativity and Storytelling Gathering October 7, 2020
  • Moving from Busyness to Retirement and Older Age: Can Pluralistic Counselling Help? September 8, 2020

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