ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates school-based counselling (SBC) in Wales. It also investigates the therapeutic helpfulness of creative and symbolic methods (CSMs), and whether a “talking only” paradigm was enough for the relationship to flourish in SBC. A preliminary review of the literature revealed four interconnecting areas that portrayed a critical picture of the SBC profession. These were: a critical analysis of the SBC field; an intrinsic “young-person-centred approach” to SBC; CSMs in SBC; societal views/perceptions in modern society. The chapter explores the experiences of current counselling practitioners in Wales who work in SBC in order to examine their individualistic approach. It also explores their use of CSMs and the potential outcome and usefulness that this might have had on the therapeutic relationship. When exploring the concept of an effective therapeutic relationship in SBC, all participants seemed to be in harmony when highlighting several facets of the psychological conditions in the person-centred approach.
