Therapist Experience
Therapists’ own experience: self-disclosure, the wounded healer, congruence, personal therapy and professional identity. 24 records.
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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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How female therapists and their patients deal with being a disputable, unimaginable, or occasional Swede: Explorations of similarity of nonprivilege
In this qualitative study, conducted in Sweden, the authors investigated therapists' experiences of therapeutic dyads in which both therapist and patient identified with a non-normative ethnicity or migration experience.
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“Feeling at home” or not? A qualitative investigation into therapists’ experienced congruence between their personal self and their professional role
Research suggests that conducting psychotherapy successfully involves an integration of professional and personal knowledge on the part of the psychotherapist.
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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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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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Therapist experiences of congruence in school-based counselling
Congruence is a key counselling concept. Whilst literature on congruence is rich, there is a lack of research in school-based counselling.
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Personal and relational ideologies of master therapists
This original study used a descriptive and interpretative qualitative approach to analyse interview data from twelve world renowned master therapists and academics.
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The therapist’s personal therapy: What influence does it have on their clinical practice?
This study explores the impact of therapists’ own personal therapy on their clinical practice.
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Therapists’ experiences with mentalization-based treatment for avoidant personality disorder
Recent research points to significant mentalizing difficulties in individuals with avoidant personality disorder (AvPD). This study contributes to an understanding of the therapeutic issues such work might entail.
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Therapists’ lived experience of self-disclosure
The impact and challenges of therapist self-disclosure on the disclosing therapist was explored using Reflexive Thematic Analysis of five interviews with integrative psychotherapists.
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Spontaneous clarity - a new reality dawns: Psychotherapists’ lived experience of epiphany moments
This article presents findings from the author’s doctoral research into psychotherapists’ perceptions of their moments of self-awareness and epiphanies, using a reflexive, hermeneutic phenomenological approach.
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“Much more than second best”: Therapists’ experiences of videoconferencing psychotherapy
This study employs phenomenologically-orientated Thematic Analysis to explore the lived experience of integrative psychotherapists using videoconferencing for psychotherapy.
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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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Dissertation to published article: A journey from shame to sharing
This paper describes my experiences of re-presenting my research from a master’s degree in Integrative Psychotherapy into a paper suitable for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
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Wounded healer therapists: A legacy of developmental trauma
My research asks, 'what impact might a personal history of complex developmental trauma have on a counsellor’s experience of, and work with, traumatised clients?' Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 6 experienced therapists.
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“I’ve got this hole…”: Experiences of therapist involuntary childlessness with clients in therapeutic practice
Little has been written on how therapists experience their practice in relation to involuntary childlessness.
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Integrative therapists’ subjective experiences and understanding of emotional connection in their practice
Despite abundant literature on the therapeutic relationship, the experience of emotional connection in therapy from psychotherapists’ perspective remains under-explored.
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Emotional labour and the practicing psychologist: When the psychologist’s professional emotions go awry
The present study considers practicing psychologists’ accounts when their own emotional reactions within the therapeutic relationship are troubling and unwanted.
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I’m human too: Person-centred counsellors’ lived experiences of therapist self-disclosure
Therapist self-disclosure (TSD) is an issue shrouded in debate, risk, and uncertainty. This study explores person-centred counsellors’ lived experiences of it.
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Therapeutic work in the midst of grief: A literature review
This article offers a brief review of the theory and existing literature in the psychotherapy field which explores the nature of therapeutic work while in the midst of grief.
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How Therapists Change: What motivates therapists towards integration?
Many therapists embrace an integrative perspective in their practice. The aim of this study is to explore what motivates therapists’ development towards integration.
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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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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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Feelings of Incompetence among Experienced Clinicians: A Substantive Theory
Feelings of incompetence (FOI) are an ongoing part of the private experience of being a therapist. Although normative, they are often linked to therapist distress and to negative therapeutic processes.