1 towards a relational therapy 1 2 psychological distress a relational understanding 17 3 the nature and experience of relational depth in counselling and psychotherapy 35 4 reaching the parts 52 5 working with dominic a partial drunk 71 6 earning the right to work with rick a traumatised client 98 7. Working at relational depth in counselling and psychotherapy is a ground breaking text which goes to the very heart of the therapeutic meeting between therapist and client focusing on the concept of relational depth dave mearns and mick cooper describe a form of encounter in which therapist and client experience profound feelings of . Relational depth inventory client cooper m 2005 working at relational depth therapy today 168 16 20 brief article overviewing relational depth theory and practice translations ukrainian cooper m 2017 meeting at relational depth therapy today 28 32 brief article reviewing the latest evidence on relational depth books. Working at relational depth in counselling psychotherapy is a work of both substance and wisdom that well deserves all the praise and attention it will undoubtedly receive professor ernesto spinelli senior fellow school of psychotherapy and counselling regents college london