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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

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.

We are very excited to announce our annual conference which will be held online, and hosted by the University of South Wales and Online Events. If you are interested in presenting please find more information regarding submissions here

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.

Pluralistic Therapy Cards, by Shirley Brennan

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 (11)
  • CBT (1)
  • Children (1)
  • Co-production (3)
  • CPD (2)
  • Critiques (5)
  • Cultural diversity (3)
  • Cultural resources (6)
  • Deliberate practice (2)
  • Epistemology (1)
  • Gender (1)
  • Goals (3)
  • Groups (4)
  • Information and Updates (13)
  • Inner plurality (1)
  • Integrative and Eclectic Practices (1)
  • Leadership (2)
  • Measures (1)
  • Networking (2)
  • Older adults (1)
  • Online (4)
  • Person-centred (8)
  • Personal (22)
  • Philosophy (15)
  • Policy (2)
  • Politics (5)
  • Practice (30)
  • Preferences (11)
  • Research (10)
  • Shared decision making (15)
  • Spirituality (1)
  • Strengths and Resources (2)
  • Supervision (2)
  • Therapeutic approaches (8)
  • Training (17)
  • Young people (2)

Recent Posts

  • Creativity Gathering 27th March 2021: Storytelling April 9, 2021
  • Do Clients Want What They Want? Understanding Preferences Through the Directional Framework April 8, 2021
  • Reflections on Using the Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences (C-NIP): Confronting Early Dropout April 1, 2021
  • 2021 Conference Announcement – Save the Date! March 29, 2021
  • Emotioncubes: A New Psychotherapy Tool March 26, 2021
  • Working Pluralistically with Parts of Self: The Principles of Inner Pluralism March 24, 2021
  • The Creativity Gathering March 24, 2021
  • Pluralistic Practitioners Network: Creativity and Challenge February 5, 2021
  • Pluralistic Practitioners Network: Creativity and Storytelling Gathering January 18, 2021
  • The Strength that We Find in Our New Everyday January 5, 2021

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