Supervision & Training
Research on supervision, trainees and the teaching of psychotherapy and research. 22 records.
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Navigating Foreignness and non-nativeness in post-Brexit UK
An IPA study, stimulated by the lead author’s own personal experiences, explored how foreign and non-native therapy trainees experience life in the UK after Brexit.
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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.
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Learning from embodied tension: A naturalistic multimodal single case study of nonverbal expressions and interactions in a psychotherapy training process
This multimodal single case study explored how nonverbal communication was handled in a psychodynamic training process.
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A balancing act – Therapists’ experiences of conducting psychotherapy with psychosis clients
This study aimed to explore therapists’ experiences of providing therapy for people with a history of psychosis and examine the role played by psychotic symptoms in therapy. Interviews with 10 therapists were conducted and analyzed thematically using…
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How storytelling impacts students in their psychotherapy training
The use and impact of storytelling in counselling and psychotherapy training was explored using a mixed-methods approach. An online survey completed by 30 therapists and 12 counselling tutors produced both quantitative and qualitative data.
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Learning to end: Trainee therapists’ experiences of imposed therapeutic endings
The aim of the study was to explore trainee therapists’ experiences of imposing therapy endings with their clients, where endings were imposed by the conclusion of training.
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Competency model of training in psychotherapy integration
This study aimed to develop a competency model for the Training in Psychotherapy Integration program in the Czech Republic.
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Views about mixed methods research from counselling and psychotherapy research students and supervisors
How do students and supervisors who are actively involved in the process of research view and experience mixed methods research? This study explores their views, based on a survey reaching 125 respondents.
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“You’ve got children haven’t you…?”: Involuntary childlessness as a neglected aspect of therapist diversity in the professional context
In a previous article we detailed the findings of a qualitative research project into the lived experience of qualified involuntary childless therapists and showed how this connected to work with clients in the therapy room.
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Being seduced: Trainee therapists’ reactions to and handling of client sexual attraction in therapy
This study explored how trainee therapists react to and handle client sexual attraction in their work. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 12 trainees.
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Forming an Integrative Training Concept: A case study of the training in psychotherapy integration
The literature on the nature of integrative psychotherapy training is patchy. This study aimed to explore how integrative elements are conceptualized and taught.
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Group Supervision: A reflective and creative space
In this article, I enquire about the perception and use of creativity and innovation in group supervision, taking into account the setting and culture one works in.
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Walking in Quicksand: An exploration of trainee’s experience of a five day residential training workshop
In June 2013, sixteen Integrative psychotherapy trainees attended a five day residential training workshop to introduce them to qualitative research.
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Research Project
As I began planning my research project as part of my Gestalt psychotherapy training, my initial interest centred around the question of ‘what works in therapy?’
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Supervision and Training of Psychotherapists in an Indian Therapeutic Community
The process of getting therapy supervision while working in a therapeutic community setting with persons suffering from chronic mental illness differs from those working in other clinical settings.
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The Value and Cost of Mandatory Personal Therapy
Counselling psychology trainees in the UK are obliged to undertake a minimum of 40 hours of personal therapy. This paper is part of a wider doctoral study on how this mandatory therapy is experienced.
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Supervisee Experiences of Broadening and Narrowing in Counselling Supervision
This study investigated supervisee perspectives of broadening and narrowing processes in counselling supervision.
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Epiphany Storytelling as a Means of Reinforcing and Embedding Transformational Therapeutic Change
The mental health field has seen a groundswell of interest in user perspectives as a crucial element of research, training and service enhancement.
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A Study to Explore the Emergence of Shadow Phenomena in Integrative Psychotherapy Training Institutes
This article takes the reader through a process of qualitative research examining the role of shadow, explored from the perspective of psychotherapy training institutes.
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An experiential approach to teaching qualitative research
A phenomenological exploration of the experience of teaching research experientially, via an exploration of shame among Gestalt therapists in several European countries.
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Before and After: A Phenomenological Exploration of the Impact of a Four-Year Training in Gestalt Psychotherapy on Gestalt Psychotherapists
A phenomenological and qualitative exploration into how a group of gestalt psychotherapists in Norway had been impacted by their training.
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Parallel Process in Supervision: A qualitative investigation
This study explored the phenomenon of parallel process as experienced by a group of four Gestalt and integrative counsellors and psychotherapists and four supervisors.