Qualitative Approaches for Psychotherapy and Allied Disciplines

This pioneering series offers a critical, reflexive, and theoretically rich home for qualitative research in psychotherapy. At a time when evidence-based models and medicalised discourses dominate mental health research, Qualitative Approaches for Psychotherapy and Allied Disciplines provides a much-needed alternative—foregrounding methodological innovation, reflexivity, and ontological depth.

Each volume explores a distinct qualitative approach, not as a fixed method to be followed, but as a generative space for thinking and feeling differently into therapeutic research. Rather than "how-to" manuals, these texts serve as rigorous companions for researchers committed to interrogating the assumptions, politics, and possibilities embedded in their work. Emphasising epistemic plurality, each title connects lived therapeutic practice with broader social, ecological, and political contexts—including posthumanist, decolonial, and critical traditions.

With contributions from both Northern and Southern hemispheres, the series supports postgraduate researchers, practitioner-scholars, and academic faculty across psychotherapy, counselling, and allied disciplines. It will be essential reading for those pursuing advanced qualitative inquiry across training programmes and doctoral contexts worldwide.

Key features:

• Offers cutting-edge qualitative approaches tailored to psychotherapy research and education.
• Challenges positivist and manualised models by centring reflexivity, criticality, and complexity.
• Draws on global editorial expertise to provide an inclusive, methodologically expansive platform.