Skills in Gestalt Counselling & Psychotherapy, Third Edition is a practical guide to a Gestalt approach looking at each stage of the therapeutic process. It has already helped thousands of trainee practitioners understand the skills needed at these stages. Focusing on skills that arise out of Gestalt theory as well as those invoked by the therapeutic relationship, it guides the reader through practice issues such as setting up the therapeutic session, creating a working alliance, assessment and treatment direction, managing risk, making the most of supervision, adopting a research approach and managing difficult encounters. This revised edition includes: - a new chapter explaining a gestalt approach to managing and working with trauma, incorporating techniques that can be integrated from other approaches (such as sensory motor therapy; mindfulness; EMDR) - new developments in the treatment of some of the most common client-presenting issues (including anxiety and depression) - new perspectives on transference and countertransference - major rethinking about modifications to contact and contacting styles. This is an ideal text for use on counselling and counselling skills courses, and provides a useful overview of how to understand and manage the whole process of therapy, especially those training in or practising Gestalt. Phil Joyce teaches at Metanoia Institute, London and a Gestalt practitioner and supervisor in private practice. Charlotte Sills is a practitioner and supervisor in private practice, tutor at Metanoia Institute and Ashridge College.