With a warm and passionate writing style, David Hutchinson demonstrates the process of becoming a counselor and developing key skills from start to finish. The author gains credibility through his real world examples and reflection activities and helps students feel less intimidated.



The book covers all the key counseling skills learned in a skills/methods course including engaging a client, lab practice activities, listening and developing empathy, and more advanced skills such as assessment, goal setting and action planning. The book comes with over 20 hours of video demonstrations of key skills in the core chapters.