ABSTRACT

Making the case for an integrated approach to the practices of counselling, psychotherapy and coaching, Personal Consultancy provides a coherent and systematic framework for working with clients. Nash Popovic and Debra Jinks use their experience in the area of integrative practice to demonstrate how this wider approach can be a more comprehensive way of helping clients than coaching or counselling on its own.

The authors explain how a range of techniques and approaches from various one-to-one practices can be brought together under the framework of Personal Consultancy, creating a method that is systematic, ethical and professional but not limited by any particular theoretical bias or preconceptions. With chapters by guest authors who discuss their perspectives on the approach and its application across various contexts, Personal Consultancy demonstrates that it is possible to combine the reparative work normally associated with counselling with the more proactive, goal-oriented approach of coaching. The result is a method that allows clients to have their counselling and their coaching needs met within one relationship and which allows the practitioner more flexibility and freedom than when using a single approach.

Personal Consultancy will be essential reading for practicing coaches and counsellors, especially those already integrating the two approaches or those looking to do so, as well as students and those in training.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

Personal Consultancy and integration

part I|102 pages

The Personal Consultancy framework

chapter 2|10 pages

Coaching and therapy

Integration and differentiation

chapter 3|7 pages

Why Personal Consultancy?

chapter 5|11 pages

The model

chapter 6|12 pages

The stages of the process

chapter 7|12 pages

Where are the boundaries?

chapter 8|9 pages

The process

part II|79 pages

Context and application

chapter 10|10 pages

Should we offer Personal Consultancy?

An exploratory dialogue between practitioner and organisation

chapter 11|12 pages

Below the surface

An integrative approach to leadership coaching

chapter 12|11 pages

Personal Consultancy with young people

‘Are we bothered?'

chapter 13|11 pages

Personal Consultancy with addictions

chapter 15|11 pages

A postcard from Down Under

An international perspective on practising as an integrative executive coach–therapist

part III|24 pages

Critique and future developments

chapter 18|9 pages

Areas for development