Any therapist worth their salt will have gone through or be going through many months of their own therapy. Personally, as a client, I wouldn’t want to go to see any practitioner who hadn’t been through this experience and come out the other side – more or less still standing. I believe that therapists who have significant unconscious and unresolved issues of their own can at best be ineffective and at worst cause harm. This doesn’t mean that therapists should be completely s

I have come across numerous contradictory answers to this question. It appears that the definition of each term depends upon whom you ask. In my view, there is one fundamental difference between the two processes, together with lots of cross-over. This essential difference is sometimes tricky to grasp and even trickier to explain! First And Second Order Change I believe that both counselling and psychotherapy are about providing a space where change can occur. Counselling