In the last post, I shared some of my experience of the training route to becoming a psychotherapist. This week, some more reflections from a less theoretical perspective… One main difference between a formative counselling training and a progression into psychotherapy training is that in the latter, one is now qualified and spending more time …
Last week, I started to share some of the thoughts I have been brewing concerning my own journey of being and becoming a psychotherapist. This writing prompt has been in service not only of my current book project, but also as I gather momentum on a research paper I hope to submit this spring: one …
Although I haven’t posted any further book updates in a month or so, I have been making some good progress – afforded by a quiet festive break, and now, an inter-semester break and time away from my teaching role at the University. The transition into the new year was also a transition into Part 2 …
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Back from retreat, and with a momentary detour into the activities of marking and exam boards, back into retreat….of sorts. A research retreat: a chance to indwell in the data I have collected at the back end of 2023. I interviewed five humanistic therapists who had undergone the training journey of counselling then onto psychotherapy …
As I complete one book’s birthing, thoughts have turned to what comes next on the writing front: I have many ideas. I sense there will always be many stories to tell along my life path as Buddhist-therapist-educator. Two ideas that I hope to come to fruition* are vying for my attention and affections. I am …