Counselling in a Nutshell provides a 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; and core therapeutic conditions.