Integrative and Eclectic Practices – Pluralistic Practice

Pluralism: Beyond Therapeutic Integration?

Helen Smith, John McLeod, Brian Rodgers The following email dialogue, from the pluralistic practice network, explores some key questions about the nature of pluralism in therapy and its relationships to integrative and other practices. It begins with a question from a trainee: Helen Smith (18/5/2022) There was discussion about pluralism…

The Metatherapeutic Current in Pluralism

March 31, 2022 Arts therapies Co-production Critiques Integrative and Eclectic Practices Metatherapeutic communication Person-centred Preferences Therapeutic approaches Training 4 Comments

Nicola Blunden, BSc Person-Centred Pluralistic Counselling, Metanoia Institute, London Terry Eagleton, one of my favourite philosophers, has written that, ‘For much of the time, our intellectual and other activities bowl along fairly serenely, and in this situation no great expenditure of theoretical energy is usually necessary. But there may come…

The Creativity Gathering: Multilingualism and Creativity in Pluralistic Practice (May 29, 2021)

July 14, 2021 Arts therapies Groups Information and Updates Integrative and Eclectic Practices Networking Practice No Comments

Tatiana Stoyko, pluralistically-minded integrative counsellor, MBACP, www.counsellingnest.com Hello and welcome to the Creativity Gathering! I am writing this with an incredible sense of belonging to the community of people passionate about creative approaches to therapy. The group draws together therapists from different theoretical orientations and promotes openness and curiosity to…

What is the pluralistic approach, and how is it different from integrative and eclectic practices?

July 15, 2019 Integrative and Eclectic Practices Philosophy 6 Comments

Mick Cooper, Professor of Counselling Psychology, University of Roehampton The pluralistic approach to therapy is something that John McLeod and I first started to articulate back in 2007, with our first book in 2011, and a handbook with Windy Dryden in 2017. John and I both came from person-centred backgrounds,…