Ginter’s (
1988) challenge to the mental health counseling profession regarding theory selection was profound. He initiated the debate by stating: “Therapy cannot exist without theory” (Ginter,
1988, p. 3). A series of invited responses and rejoinders has followed. Kelly (
1988) supported a unified or eclectic approach––namely, Adaptive Counseling and Therapy (ACT)––and Simon (
1989) distinguished between technical and theoretical eclecticism and suggested that general systems theory (GST) could provide the necessary framework for pulling everything together. …