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COUNSELLING psychology is at a crossroads. We have now an established presence within the Society and clear pathways to qualification, Chartering and employment. Nevertheless, success has confronted us with a fundamental dilemma, which can be expressed as a choice between two modes of being and is encapsulated in Martin Buber's distinction between the 'I-it' and the 'I-thou'. This translates into seeing ourselves, as practitioners, as either `technical experts' or `persons-in-relation'. Currently the pressure is very much in the direction of technical expertise. It is therefore timely to revisit the contribution to our discipline of Carl Rogers and to remind ourselves, in turn, of a distinctive contribution made by counselling psychology to the...