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The aim of this chapter is to explore the relationship between the professional specialty of counseling psychology and positive psychology. Following a brief historical overview of counseling psychology we explore its theoretical convergence with positive psychology and examine how the ideas from positive psychology have been received by counseling psychologists. We will argue that although counseling psychology has its roots in ideas that are consistent with positive psychology, the profession has developed a broad practice range in recent decades accommodating a diversity of ways of working, many of which prioritize working with distress and its origins over seeking to enhance and build on existing strengths.