Resources

Find a range of documents, forms, and guidelines for professionals and clients to help you personalise psychotherapy and counselling.

Adult Questionnaire C-NIP-2

Download the C-NIP-2 adult preference questionnaire for your region, with therapist
guidelines. If no downloads are available for your region, we recommend you choose the
closest alternative.

C-NIP-2 PDF UK

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C-NIP-2 HTML UK

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C-NIP-2 Guidelines UK

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C-NIP-2 PDF US

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C-NIP-2 PDF Chinese

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C-NIP-2 HTML Chinese

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C-NIP-2 PDF German

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C-NIP-2 HTML German

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C-NIP-2 PDF Persian

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C-NIP-2 HTML Persian

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C-NIP-2 PDF Serbian

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C-NIP-2 HTML Serbian

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Young Person’s Questionnaire (U-PIC)

Download the U-PIC young person’s preference questionnaire for your region, with therapist guidelines. If no downloads are available for your region, we recommend you choose the closest alternative.

U-PIC 14 PDF UK

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U-PIC Therapists' Guidelines UK

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Adaptations and New Developments

Download new adaptations of the preference questionnaires for research and clinical purposes. You can also find here previous iterations for legacy purposes.

C-NIP-2 Retrospective

A version of the C–NIP–2 that has been developed to retrospectively assess perceived activities in therapy.

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C–NIP v1.1

The original version of the C–NIP. This has now been superseded by the C–NIP–2 but we make it available here for legacy purposes.

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C–NIP–Therapist v1.1

An adaptation of the C–NIP v1.1 for therapists to rate their preferred ways of working.

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Supervision Personalisation Form Assessment

An early preference checklist for therapy supervisees to use with their supervisors. Versions are provided both for assessment sessions and for ongoing review.

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Supervision Personalisation Form review

An early preference checklist for therapy supervisees to use with their supervisors. Versions are provided both for assessment sessions and for ongoing review.

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Therapy Personalisation Form Assessment

An early preference checklist for clients. This has now been superseded by the C–NIP forms but we make it available here for legacy purposes. Versions are provided both for assessment sessions and for ongoing review.

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Therapy Personalisation Form Review

An early preference checklist for clients. This has now been superseded by the C–NIP forms, but we make it available here for legacy purposes. Versions are provided for both assessment sessions and ongoing review.

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Translation Guidelines

We welcome colleagues who are interested in translating the preference questionnaires and have some guidelines for this work. Please contact mick.cooper@roehampton.ac.uk before you embark to ensure no other translations are in progress for your language.

Download translation guidelines for C-NIP-2

Training Videos

Develop your skills in working with client preferences and the preference forms with this series of training videos by Drs John Norcross and Mick Cooper.

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Assessing Client Preferences: Some Pointers

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Using the Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences (C-NIP): Two Demonstrations

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How NOT to Assess Client Preferences

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Adopting Client Preferences

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Offering Adapted Client Preferences

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Offering Alternative Preferences

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Offering Another: Onward Referral

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Presentations

Accessible introduction to preference work, preference measures, and the talkingpreferences.org site.

Presentation
How to Use Client Preferences to Improve Therapy Outcomes

Research publications

Our team has outputted a range of publications on the preference measures and working with client preferences.

Cooper, M., Messow, C.-M., McConnachie, A., Freire, E., Elliott, R., Heard, D., Williams, C., & Morrison, J. (2018). Patient preference as a predictor of outcomes in a pilot trial of person-centred counselling versus low-intensity cognitive behavioural therapy for persistent sub-threshold and mild depression.

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Cooper, M., & Norcross, J. C. (2016). A brief, multidimensional measure of clients' therapy preferences: The Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences

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Cooper, M., Norcross, J. C., Raymond-Barker, B., & Hogan, T. P. (2019). Psychotherapy preferences of laypersons and mental health professionals: Whose therapy is it? Psychotherapy

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Cooper, M., van Rijn, B., Chryssafidou, E., & Stiles, W. B. (2022). Activity preferences in psychotherapy: what do patients want and how does this relate to outcomes and alliance? Counselling Psychology Quarterly

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Di Malta, G., Cooper, M., Oddli, H., Swift, J. K., & Knox, S. (2025). Clients' preferences for their therapists' relational styles in psychotherapy: A consensual qualitative research study. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research

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Norcross, J. C., & Wampold, B. E. (Eds.). (2019). Psychotherapy relationships that work (3rd ed. Vol. 2: Evidence-based therapist responsiveness). Oxford University. Řiháček, T., Cooper, M., Cígler, H., She, Z., Di Malta, G., & Norcross, J. C. (2024). The Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences: Measurement invariance across & international datasets and languages. Psychotherapy Research

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She, Z., Cooper, M., & Di Malta, G. (2025). A comparison of patients’ preferences for psychotherapy with psychotherapists’ preferences for delivering psychotherapy in China.

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She, Z., Řiháček, T., Xu, J., Yang, W., Xu, D., Zhou, N., Ji, W., & Xi, J. (2022). Psychometric Evaluation of the Cooper–Norcross Inventory of Preferences–Therapist Version. Assessment.

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She, Z., Xi, J., Cooper, M., Norcross, J. C., & Di Malta, G. (2023). Validation of the Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences in Chinese lay clients and mental health professionals: Factor structure, measurement invariance, and scale differences. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 70(4), 436-447.

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Swift, J. K., Callahan, J. L., Cooper, M., & Parkin, S. R. (2018). The impact of accommodation client preferences in psychotherapy: A meta-analysis. Journal of Clinical Psychology,

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Swift, J. K., Callahan, J. L., Cooper, M., & Parkin, S. R. (2019). Preferences. In J. C. Norcross & B. E. Wampold (Eds.), Psychotherapy relationships that work (3rd ed., pp. 157-187). Oxford University. Wallace, K., & Cooper, M. (2015). Development of supervision personalisation forms: A qualitative study of the dimensions along which supervisors’ practices vary. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 15(1), 31-40.

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Training Publications

Drs John C. Norcross and Mick Cooper’s 2021 text on assessing and accommodating client preferences (APA), oriented to practitioners.

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Take the first step towards clearer therapy conversations

Use a research-led questionnaire to help express your preferences and support a more collaborative therapeutic relationship.

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