ABSTRACT
The development of pluralistic therapy has taken place at a time when governments, health organisations and increasingly, clients, have highlighted the importance of the principle of evidence-based practice (EBP): the requirement that therapy should be informed by the best research evidence that is currently available. For the most part, EBP guidelines have been dominated by a tendency to favour empirically validated therapies that are supported by evidence from randomised controlled/clinical trials (RCTs). At the present time, and for many years, the field of psychotherapy research has been highly productive, generating many thousands of studies. Pluralistic therapists develop a capacity to move backward and forward between different ways of knowing. There is a strong emphasis in pluralistic therapy on working collaboratively, finding ways to harness the strengths and insights of both the therapist and client. This principle extends to the domain of research-informed practice. It is important to regard the client as an active researcher into their own condition.
