What is counseling and how does it work? Counselling in a Nutshell provides the answers to these questions and more, as part of an step-by-step guide to the counseling relationship and the therapeutic process. Focusing on the commonalities within the main theoretical approaches - psychodynamic, person-centred, and cognitive-behavioral - author Windy Dryden describes a framework which underpins all counseling, irrespective of the approach being used. Key features of the framework include: bonds between counselor and client, goals and tasks of counseling, stages of the therapeutic process, core therapeutic conditions, counselling in a Nutshell provides a concise introduction to core components of the therapeutic relationship and process and is suitable for counselors of all orientations.