Latest release: Les Greenberg: working with current and historical trauma

Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) involves providing an empathic and emotionally attuned therapeutic relationship in which the therapist has their finger on the client’s pulse moment by moment.

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Transforming Emotional Pain: An Illustration of Emotion-Focused Therapy

In an engaging Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) session, Dr. Ladislav Timulak helps the client, Claire, to explore the emotional impact of a very traumatic experience associated with the birth of her daughter.

Les Greenberg: working with core emotion

In this film Les works on getting to the dis-ease underlying the client’s symptomatic presentation, based on the notion that you have to arrive at a place before you can leave it.

Understanding Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

This film demonstrates how the theory and skills of CBT can be successfully applied in counselling practice. The film takes you through several sessions with a role-played client presenting with anxiety. After each session counsellor Caroline Waite identifies and discusses with Stuart Rose the CBT skills being used.

Understanding Emotion-Focused Therapy

Robert Elliott describes and demonstrates some of the key elements of this contemporary, research-informed humanistic approach in a collection of exceptionally informative videos.

Understanding Person-Centred Counselling

In this introduction to Person-Centred Counselling Barry Kopp demonstrates how, by working with the three core conditions of empathy, unconditional positive regard and congruence, he is able to develop the counselling relationship.

Addictions Counselling

An emotionally powerful counselling session with a woman (played by an actress) in early recovery from drug addiction. Within a safe space she is able to explore her past in relation to the present and also to begin to understand the role addiction has had throughout her life.

Bereavement and loss counselling

A case study of Kate who is trying to cope with four major experiences of bereavement and loss. The video contains a counselling session in which the counselling psychologist Anthony Crouch helps Kate to begin to tolerate her pain, develop a spark of hope for the future and identify key therapeutic goals.

Experiencing Counselling

Six people share their experiences which led them to seek counselling. Maureen Moore, an experienced counsellor and psychotherapist, talks about counselling and explores some of the issues relating to what counselling is and how we go about choosing a counsellor.

The Need to Belong

A short therapy session with a young woman who is exploring her feelings in relation to her search for ‘belonging’. During the process of her search she encounters a number of barriers and contradictions, all of which lead to her feeling different from the local community and experiencing a sense of exclusion.

Inside the therapeutic relationship: Ending Therapy

This video is full of opportunities for discussion and explores many of the issues related to ending counselling. It demonstrates, in two sessions, the process of ending a long-established therapeutic relationship with the same client.

When Someone Dies

These real life stories include an in-depth account of a widow's reaction to her husband's shocking and untimely death, look at how a widower coped with the desolation he felt after his wife died, and chronicle the agonising experience of a mother losing her young child.

Introducing Listening and Counselling Skills

A portrayal of a day in the life of a mother (Mary) and her 19 year old son (Sean) where the relationship between them has broken down and neither is listening to the other. The day starts with an argument over breakfast.

Listening and Counselling Skills: a how not to guide

This video illustrates - in a humourous way - that effective listening and responding is as much about not doing as it is about doing. Which is, perhaps, the most basic skill that the student needs to learn: the good listener stops doing things in order to listen.