This text provides students and practitioners of counselling and psychotherapy with a guide to working integratively in time sensitive and healthcare settings. Drawing on research in neuroscience, infant studies and human development, this text offers an original framework for identifying key therapeutic metaphors to focus and guide the therapeutic process. It should be useful to any practitioner psychotherapist, counsellor, psychologist, psychiatrist, GP, health or social care professional who has opportunities to make a professional, therapeutic relationship with clients suffering emotional problems.