Counselling Unit staff are at the forefront of national and international developments in the counselling and psychotherapy research field, with a specialisation in person-centred/experiential and humanistic-existential approaches to therapy and to research methods . The Counselling Unit is the only counselling training centre in the UK with two research-active Professors, and we have extensive links with other national and international centres of research and training.
Research work within the Unit is organised around a number of specific themes:
- Person-centred/experiential therapy: process and outcomes
- Existential therapy: process and outcomes
- Pluralistic framework
- Social anxiety: person-centred/experiential approaches
- Counselling in schools
- Relational depth
- Measure development: person-centred/experiential approaches
- Practice-based research
Full details are available on the Counselling Unit Website