20 best-selling nonfiction books like First Steps In Counselling: A Student's Companion for Basic Introductory Courses by Pete Sanders

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First Steps In Counselling: A Student's Companion for Basic Introductory Courses

By: Pete Sanders

4.15

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

First Steps in Counselling is essentially a book about helping and this fifth edition has been upda…

"It is in the nature of helping and counselling to be a process moving towards something rather than arriving at a state of completion."

-Pete Sanders, First Steps In Counselling: A Student's Companion for Basic Introductory Courses

"It is in the nature of helping and counselling to be a process moving towards something rather than arriving at a state of completion."

-Pete Sanders, First Steps In Counselling: A Student's Companion for Basic Introductory Courses

If you liked the nonfiction plot in First Steps In Counselling: A Student's Companion for Basic Introductory Courses by Pete Sanders , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. Chimp Paradox: How Our Impulses and Emotions Can Determine Success and Happiness and How We Can Control Them

By: None , Steve Peters

3.99

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

Leading consultant psychiatrist Steve Peters knows more than anyone how impulsive behaviour or nagg… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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2. Counselling for Toads

By: Kenneth Grahame , Robert De Board

4.29

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Over 3 million copies sold worldwide and translated into seven languages! For over 25 years Counsel… read more

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  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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3. Person-Centred Counselling in Action

By: Dave Mearns , Brian Thorne

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

The discussion of empathy, acceptance and congruence is central and should be required reading for … read more

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  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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4. Dibs in Search of Self

By: Virginia M. Axline

4.32

Format: 285 pages,

A child therapy classic. Dibs will not talk. He will not play. He has locked himself in a very spec… read more

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  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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5. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.80

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded sea… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don't Have with People You Don't Like Doing Things You Don't Want to Do

By: Sarah Knight

3.00

Format: 54 pages, Hardcover

THE "GENIUS" (Cosmopolitan) NATIONAL BESTSELLER ON THE ART OF CARING LESS AND GETTING MORE Are you… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology

7. Hypnotherapy: A Practical Handbook

By: Hellmut W.A. Karle , None , Jennifer Boys

3.79

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In the 23 years since this book was first published, numerous books along the same lines have appea… read more

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  • psychology
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8. Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

By: Irvin D. Yalom

3.66

Format: 162 pages,

The collection of ten absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteri… read more

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  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • psychology

9. When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

By: Gabor Maté

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In this accessible and groundbreaking book--filled with the moving stories of real people--medical … read more

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10. Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

By: Pete Walker

3.99

Format: 512 pages,

I have Complex PTSD [Cptsd] and wrote this book from the perspective of someone who has experienced… read more

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11. Hypnosis for Change

By: None , None

4.15

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

This book is for professionals and general readers looking for ways to harness and focus their natu… read more

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12. Man's Search for Meaning

By: Viktor E. Frankl

3.93

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of lif… read more

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13. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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14. The Future

By: Naomi Alderman

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handfu… read more

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"There’s a beautiful world on the far shore,"

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The day was new now, as it is new every morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"There was fog, but behind the fog there was morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The most persistent hauntings are the ghosts of lost futures."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

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15. 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

By: Jay Shetty

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Think Like a Monk offers a revelatory guide to every… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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16. Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

By: Julie Smith

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith provides… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"When we focus on trying to fix the problem, it is easy to underestimate the power of simply being there."

-Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

"In acceptance, the new reality is still not OK. It is still not as we want it to be. But we begin to take on the new reality, listen to our needs, open up to new experiences and make connections."

-Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

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17. The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read [and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did]

By: Philippa Perry

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

This book is about how we have relationships with our children, what gets in the way of a good conn… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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18. This Much is True

By: Miriam Margolyes

4.09

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a … read more

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  • nonfiction
"...it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

"And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

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19. Butter

By: Asako Yuzuki

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more

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"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

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20. Really Good, Actually

By: Monica Heisey

3.16

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning … read more

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"You’ll like dating, everyone eats ass now."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

"The truth is, if you start your eating disorder even slightly overweight, no one will notice until things are very much at the ‘what if two meals a day were soup’ stage."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

"It seemed impossible that I was supposed to keep loving - even revering - my body as it decomposed in slow motion. Why not give in and have low self-esteem? Maybe I could slay in that way instead."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

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21. The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

By: Emily Ralls

3.99

Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition

If you want to know your Freud from your Jung and your Milgram from your Maslow, strap in for this … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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22. And How Does That Make You Feel?: Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Therapy

By: Joshua Fletcher

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the closed door of the therapist's office? Psychotherapi… read more

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  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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23. Menopausing: The Positive Roadmap to Your Second Spring

By: Davina McCall

4.31

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

Menopause affects every woman, and yet so many approach it with shame, fear, misinformation or sile… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. Wandering Souls

By: Cecile Pin

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more

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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

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25. The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain

By: Gina Rippon

3.88

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

For decades if not centuries, science has backed up society’s simple dictum that men and women are … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Stereotypes could be straitjackening our flexible, plastic brains. So, yes, challenging them does matter."

-Gina Rippon, The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain

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26. Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy

By: Carolyn Spring

4.61

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

A book for psychotherapists and their clients - and for anyone who wants to make the journey from s… read more

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  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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27. Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic

By: Paul Conti

3.74

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

A Journey Toward Understanding, Active Treatment, and Societal Prevention of Trauma Imagine, if yo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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28. Counselling Skills and Studies

By: Fiona Ballantine Dykes

4.30

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Are your students looking to use counselling skills to enhance their existing helping role or wanti… read more

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  • counselling
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29. First Steps In Counselling: A Student's Companion for Basic Introductory Courses

By: Pete Sanders

4.15

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

First Steps in Counselling is essentially a book about helping and this fifth edition has been upda… read more

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  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"It is in the nature of helping and counselling to be a process moving towards something rather than arriving at a state of completion."

-Pete Sanders, First Steps In Counselling: A Student's Companion for Basic Introductory Courses

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30. Skills in Person-Centred Counselling & Psychotherapy (Skills in Counselling & Psychotherapy Series)

By: Janet Tolan

4.27

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

`Overall this both is accessible and useful… a very readable book' - The Journal of Critical Psycho… read more

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  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • psychology

17 Best psychology books like First Steps In Counselling: A Student's Companion for Basic Introductory Courses by Pete Sanders

Transform Your Habits

Chimp Paradox: How Our Impulses and Emotions Can Determine Success and Happiness and How We Can Control Them

None , Steve Peters

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Counselling for Toads

Kenneth Grahame , Robert De Board

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Person-Centred Counselling in Action

Dave Mearns , Brian Thorne

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Dibs in Search of Self

Virginia M. Axline

4.32

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Transform Your Habits

Coming Alive: 4 Tools to Defeat Your Inner Enemy, Ignite Creative Expression, and Unleash Your Soul's Potential

Phil Stutz , Barry Michels

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity

Peter Attia

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

Arthur C. Brooks

3.79

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