Counselling and the Gut Microbiome: An Overview
If you’ve been at the game of counselling for a while, you know the ropes – and the rules. The client comes and you listen to their presenting issues; often those are anxiety and/or depression or unbearable angst at some aspect of life. You work out if it is within your sphere of competence to work with the person, and outline a treatment plan – or at least a suggestion of a modality that would work well for them – and the client hopefully agrees. Most of the time the treatment plan of mental health practitioners involves some version of a “talking cure”: that is, a psychological healing effort for what appears to be psychological distress: equivalent and thus logical, right? But this way of thinking about what is “wrong” and thus what is needed to put things “right” may be about to change... »
