Mick Cooper

Mick Cooper

Mick Cooper is Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of Roehampton and a practising counselling psychologist. Mick is author and editor of a range of texts on person-centred, existential, and relational approaches to therapy. Mick has led a series of research studies – both qualitative and quantitative – exploring the processes and outcomes of person-centred counselling with young people, and has published in a range of leading international psychotherapy journals. He is a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and the Academy of Social Sciences.

He is the father of four children and lives in Brighton, on the south coast of England.

Books by Mick Cooper

The Existential Counselling Primer (second edition): a concise introduction

  • £11.00
Part of the PCCS Books bestselling Primers in Counselling series, The Existential Counselling Primer is a concise summary of the philosophical origins of existentialist therapy, existentialist understandings of what it is to be human, and how both inform the theory and practice of existential counselling. It ends with a case study to demonstrate what the approach might look like in…

Person-Centered and Experiential Therapies Work: A review of the research on counseling, psychotherapy and related practices

  • £22.00
Person-Centered and Experiential Therapies Work provides a comprehensive, systematic and accessible review of the evidence base for the approach and the methods and measures by which it can be evaluated. It gives clear evidence for the effectiveness of person-centered and experiential therapies, and is an essential resource for students and practitioners who want to know more about the empirical support…

Politicizing the Person-Centred Approach: An agenda for social change

  • £21.99
An international collection of papers offers critical analysis of the person-centred approach and its position on difference and diversity; class; culture and racism; sexuality; power and gender issues. Other contributions present a range of work including theory development; social change as a necessary and sufficient conditon for therapeutic personality growth; emotional literacy; work with refugees and asylum seekers; peace groups…