About the Journal
The journal’s key facts as recorded by the Directory of Open Access Journals.
At a glance
- Title
- European Journal for Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy
- Abbreviation
- EJQRP
- eISSN
- 1756-7599 (ISSN Portal)
- Publisher
- Liverpool John Moores University (United Kingdom)
- Associated institution
- European Association for Integrative Psychotherapy
- Official website
- openjournals.ljmu.ac.uk/ejqrp
- Licence
- CC BY-NC
- Charges
- No article processing or submission charges recorded
- Peer review
- Anonymous peer review (single)
- Time to publication
- 26 weeks (average, as reported to DOAJ)
- Open access since
- 2006
- In DOAJ since
- 2026-01-24 (record last updated 2026-09-17)
- DOI prefix
- 10.24377
Source: DOAJ journal record, checked 2026-09-23. If any value above differs from the journal’s own website, the journal’s website is authoritative.
Scope
Across its record, the journal publishes qualitative and mixed-methods research on psychotherapy and counselling — much of it practitioner research using phenomenological, heuristic, thematic and autoethnographic approaches — together with methodological papers, reviews, reflective accounts and editorials. The topic index shows how its 133 records are distributed.
History
Founded in 2006, the journal appeared as numbered issues until 2014, paused, and re-launched in 2018 with annual volumes starting at Volume 8. See the editorial record.