# Counselor Guide

> Lead your counseling practice with evidence, care, and staying power.

Bicycle Guide reconciles the best books on a topic into one sourced guide and shows where they disagree.

Categories below are subject shelves: each groups guides that answer one kind of work or life problem. A guide's link points at its canonical home, which may be a persona front rather than this domain.

Counseling work asks for clinical depth, ethical judgment, and sustainable practice at the same time. This site maps the core literature so a practitioner can navigate the field without flattening disagreement.

Every guide linked below has a main guide free to read. Some clearly mark additional paid sections, tools and downloads. Guide pages include source information. Links point at each guide's own canonical home, which is not always this domain.

## Careers & Professions
- [The Bicycle Guide to Counseling Theories and Modalities](https://counselor.guide/guides/counseling-theories-and-modalities): Symptom reduction and treatment efficacy becomes something you produce by design, not by luck.
- [The Bicycle Guide to Counselor Self-Care and Resilience](https://counselor.guide/guides/counselor-self-care): Symptom reduction and treatment efficacy becomes something you produce by design, not by luck.
- [The Bicycle Guide to Grief and Loss Counseling](https://counselor.guide/guides/grief-and-loss-counseling): Symptom reduction and treatment efficacy becomes something you produce by design, not by luck.
- [The Bicycle Guide to Practice Counseling and Psychotherapy Well](https://counselor.guide/guides/counseling): Symptom reduction and treatment efficacy becomes something you produce by design, not by luck.
- [The Bicycle Guide to The Therapeutic Relationship and Ethics](https://counselor.guide/guides/therapeutic-relationship-and-ethics): Symptom reduction and treatment efficacy becomes something you produce by design, not by luck.

## Wellbeing & Character
- [The Bicycle Guide to Cultivate Wellbeing and Character Strengths](https://bicycle.guide/guides/competency-positive-psychology): Flourishing and Well-Being becomes something you produce by design, not by luck.

## Capabilities
- The skills, knowledge, abilities and dispositions taught across multiple guides, joined to the books that ground them and the jobs that require them — see https://counselor.guide/capabilities
- [Resilience](https://counselor.guide/capabilities/ce_resilience): taught across 4 guides, grounded in 37 books.
- [Positive Emotion](https://counselor.guide/capabilities/ce_positive-emotion): taught across 3 guides, grounded in 37 books.
- [Gratitude](https://counselor.guide/capabilities/ce_gratitude): taught across 2 guides, grounded in 37 books.
- [Meaning and Purpose](https://counselor.guide/capabilities/ce_meaning-and-purpose): taught across 2 guides, grounded in 37 books.
- [Positive Relationships](https://counselor.guide/capabilities/ce_positive-relationships): taught across 2 guides, grounded in 2 books.

## Disagreements
- [Where the books disagree](https://counselor.guide/disagreements): 12 named disagreements with cited books on both sides — tension name, poles, and sources only.

## Books
- [Book library](https://counselor.guide/books): the source corpus every guide cites, browsable by subject.

## More
- [Full guide index](https://counselor.guide/guides): every guide this site serves, organized by shelf.
- [Sitemap](https://counselor.guide/sitemap.xml): every URL on this site, for a complete crawl.
- [MCP server](https://counselor.guide/mcp): remote Model Context Protocol access to the guide registry, taxonomy and capability spine — read-only, no auth required. Also served at https://counselor.guide/api/mcp.
- [MCP well-known descriptor](https://counselor.guide/.well-known/mcp.json): the same transport + tool list as machine-readable JSON, for a probe that checks .well-known before opening a session.
- [OpenAPI](https://counselor.guide/openapi.json): the same registry as a REST machine-readable spec.