Counselling and psychotherapy of and in the South Pacific

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article presents and comments on the process and findings of scoping the field of counselling and psychotherapy in the South Pacific. Influenced by critical theory and, specifically, ‘Southern theory’, the authors were and are concerned to acknowledge indigenous healing traditions that predated the arrival of Western – and, in effect, Northern – counselling and psychotherapy theory and practice. This scoping study is intended to lay the groundwork for further work that identifies and reflects critically on therapeutic practice and theory in this region.