Critical Engagements

Critical engagements explore therapeutic approaches in considerably more depth than the overviews of individual types of counselling included here separately. The first article in this series highlights the strengths and weaknesses of each of two approaches as seen from the viewpoint of the other, as well as from the author's own individual perspective. The hope is that by setting each of these three perspectives off against the others, some creative synthesis will occur which -- while not necessarily representative of the views of anyone else at all -- might at least serve to stimulate thought about the two approaches considered as well as about other individuals' therapeutic practice or experiences as a client.

Click to read the critical engagement comparing existential and person-centred approaches.

Typically more academic in nature than other materials on this site, critical engagements assume some familiarity with the types of counselling being considered. They are written with a slightly more formal tone, and they dispense with the gender-neutral grammatical liberties taken elsewhere on the site, favouring grammatical correctness instead.