Counselling as method for dealing with psychological distress

This book was one of the first “counselling” books I read many years ago; “Counselling for Toads” by Robert de Board.

Using the characters of Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows it follows Toad who is experiencing a depressed state and his good friends Rat, Mole and Badger who are afraid “he might do something silly”.

“First they nursed him. Then they encouraged him. Then they told him to pull himself together….Finally Badger could stand it no longer…”Now look here Toad, this can go on no longer,” he said sternly. “There is only one thing left. You must have counselling!”

Such a fabulous and very readable book for anyone approaching counselling of any age as we follow Toad’s experience of counselling from Heron, witty, enlightening and engaging as well as making a lot of sense