Volume 15

Editorial - Volume 15

“It’s not me anymore, it’s him” A hermeneutic-phenomenological analysis of matrescence with implications for counselling and psychotherapeutic practice

Little explains what is typically experienced mentally when an individual becomes a mother. This article aims to better understand the experience of matrescence and its implications for practice.

Facilitating Emotion Focused Skills Training for parents online (EFST-O): Insights about self-disclosure, group dynamics and culture

The Emotion Focused Skills Training (EFST) is a program for parents who want to promote the mental health of their children, and their own.

Reflecting on qualitative survey psychotherapy research: A feminist phronetic case study

This reflective commentary offers a case study of being an experienced qualitative researcher conducting psychotherapy research as a novice practitioner.

Self-definition issues may veil relational needs and fears in negotiations of the alliance: A new way to conceptualize rupture and repair

Needs for self-definition and relatedness in psychotherapeutic interaction have been described in theory and research but their role in rupture-repair episodes is still not well understood.

Creative engagement with the voices of person-centred therapists: Using poetic illuminations to overcome data fragmentation and to highlight the nuances of lived experience

Increasingly, creative forms of data representation are being utilised within qualitative research as a way of gaining deep, varied and nuanced knowledge of a phenomenon.

Exploring service users, families, and professionals’ experiences with Open Dialogue in a Portuguese psychosocial rehabilitation unit

Open Dialogue is a collaborative approach that emphasizes the involvement of the person at the center of concern, their family, and professionals in network meetings.

Why do therapists work in prisons, and what is their lived experience of doing so?

The aim of this study is to uncover the lived experience of psychotherapists and counsellors working in prisons and their motivations for doing so.

‘They Got It’: How professionals can support the emotional wellbeing of parents of a child with a learning disability, or who are autistic.

Studies suggest that parents of children with a learning disability or who are autistic are at greater risk of poorer mental health.