Articles tagged with "counsellor"

ACC's best-practice guidelines for identifying cases of sexual abuse are not credible.

As a counsellor and psychotherapist also trained in science and in scepticism I have been disappointed in the apparent lack of depth to the sceptical analysis of counselling that seems to be present from time to time in the NZ Skeptic. This lack of rigour in analysis goes back some way. In June 1995, for example, an article appeared in this publication saying counselling was no use. This judgement was based on a single study conducted in 1939.

Some problems cannot be resolved by just "getting it all out of your system", reports Nigel Hawkes.