Research-based Counseling Skills: The Art and Science of Therapeutic Empathy provides a toolbox of evidence-based counseling skills and techniques providing developing counselors with a roadmap on the journey of becoming clinical experts. Counseling skills that build a strong foundation for therapeutic rapport and safety including the listening skill sequence, empathy as an umbrella skill, and more advanced skills such as immediacy goalsetting, and challenging skills are explored. The skills are discussed through the lens of attachment theory and…