"Many counsellors who work in primary care find it difficult to explain to colleagues in the primary care team what they actually do with clients behind the closed door of their room "? provides excellent insights into the many issues and challenges that are part of the work undertaken by therapists and counsellors in the primary care setting. ? the book is sensitively written and challenges the reader to reflect on key issues involved in the counselling process."-Nursing Standard, 2003 "? stresses the importance of supervision and support? However, the most useful concept? is understanding how much can be achieved in counselling sessions for a short period of time."-RCGP Beds & Herts Faculty News letter, 2004 "This innovative text explores and explains a current popular trend in primary care - ie that of 'time limited' counselling therapy. Increasingly we are finding services that start out by stating that therapy will be limited - usually to six sessions. The author presents this reality? in the form of taking a client through each mock session. Throughout the text there are 'explanatory' boxes which allow further consideration of particular issues."-Journal of Community Nursing, December 2004