Counselling psychology practice in Latin America

Abstract

This article reflects about the practice of Counselling Psychology (CP) in Latin America and the challenge of offering this practice in contexts of poverty and inequalities. We defend a CP that can offer a practice outside the standards of conventional clinical care, considering the individuals and their institutional relationships; valuing community support networks, and the care resources existing in these communities; avoiding pathologising and categorising people; and being open to the multiple demands while the professionals' role is to facilitate the process in which users become autonomous individuals able to make decisions about their lives.