ABSTRACT
In the UK, ‘Counselling for Depression’ (CfD) is an approach to therapy approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and as such is available as a treatment within the framework of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme (see Sanders 2013: 21). It is an integrative model drawing on classical client-centred and emotion-focused therapy (EFT) and developed specifically for working with people who experience depression. It is intended to be delivered in up to twenty sessions. While in the context of person-centred therapy as a whole limitations to the number of sessions offered is often seen as antithetical; arguments as to the practicality of ‘brief person-centred therapy’ have often been made (see, for example, Tudor 2008: 1–5, 13–28).
