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'This book impressed me for many reasons. First, it was written by a Gestalt practitioner for professionals of every orientation... Second, while wanting to describe the criteria for competence, Gerrie does not reduce them to a formal training, or to the achieving of minimum standards... Third, it does not reduce competence, or the effectiveness of the therapist, to the ability to achieve goals and succeed in 'curing' the client. - Dr Piergiulio Poli, Figuremergenti 'Gerrie Hughes has given us an unusually comprehensive, detailed and inclusive account of what leads to competence in the practice of counselling and psychotherapy. This is as relevant to students who want to join the profession as to graduates who want to understand how to sustain their competence throughout their career, particularly by remaining thoughtful and reflective through supervision and by ensuring they do not become burnt out by ignoring their own needs. It is particularly good to see that competence in working across diverse communities is taken very seriously throughout the book.' - Dr Judy Ryde, author of Being White in the Helping Professions 'Here is a useful, well-written travel guide for exploring the practitioner's private world of work - practical, yet deep and wise too. As an accomplished and adventurous gestalt psychotherapist, Gerrie Hughes generously opens her consulting room and inner world to more public view. The book will delight and inform beginners, and established practitioners will recognise and re-think their own situations, clinical dilemmas, disappointments, and deeply-held ideals and values.' - Malcolm Parlett, former editor of the British Gestalt Journal and retired psychotherapist trainer 'My final point is to commend Hughes on the explicit acknowledgement and discussion of diversity as it relates to the therapist and how this impacts on the relationship... I am pleased to have this book as part of my personal library and would certainly recommend it to trainers and supervisees wishing to explore the vitally important area of competence and self care.' - Michelle Oldale, Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute, Open University, Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal

'Gerrie Hughes has given us an unusually comprehensive, detailed and inclusive account of what leads to competence in the practice of counselling and psychotherapy. This is as relevant to students who want to join the profession as to graduates who want to understand how to sustain their competence throughout their career, particularly by remaining thoughtful and reflective through supervision and by ensuring they do not become burnt out by ignoring their own needs. It is particularly good to see that competence in working across diverse communities is taken very seriously throughout the book.' - Dr Judy Ryde, author of Being White in the Helping Professions 'Here is a useful, well-written travel guide for exploring the practitioner's private world of work - practical, yet deep and wise too. As an accomplished and adventurous gestalt psychotherapist, Gerrie Hughes generously opens her consulting room and inner world to more public view. The book will delight and inform beginners, and established practitioners will recognise and re-think their own situations, clinical dilemmas, disappointments, and deeply-held ideals and values.' - Malcolm Parlett, former editor of the British Gestalt Journal and retired psychotherapist trainer.

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Gerrie Hughes has a private practice in Cardiff and writes both fiction and non-fiction. She trained in Gestalt psychotherapy after leaving her first career with British Gas. She has more than twenty years’ experience as a therapist, supervisor and trainer and has worked in the NHS, in education and in a number of training institutes.

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