Counselling psychology in Britain: past, present and future

Abstract

In 1996, Sage published the Handbook of Counselling Psychology edited by Windy Dryden and myself (Woolfe and Dryden 1996). I wrote a chapter entitled ‘The Nature of Counselling Psychology’ (Woolfe 1996). The present paper is substantially based upon that, but attempts to bring the reader up to date with developments and to emphasize the link between past, present and future.