This session will explore the topic of therapist self disclosure and the mismatch between what most of us have been taught to think about its use with clients and evidence from our own practice, that our disclosures can and do help clients, when carefully used.
Since writing my article on the topic in the BACP’s Therapy Today recently, entitled Me Undefended, explaining why I use self disclosure routinely now, and how it has become a way of being for me as a therapist, I have been surprised and pleased to get many responses from colleagues
You can view the article by clicking here
© This article was first published in Therapy Today, the journal of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
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Presenter
I am a counselling psychologist who has worked with clients for 30 plus years.
As well as running my private practice , I also write and am published on many subjects, including the service we offer to lesbian and bi sexual women- my doctoral research- and a lot on the psychological impact of cancer from my dual perspective as woman who was diagnosed with it 20 years ago and psychologist, focusing on mismatches between what having cancer is meant to be like and how it actually is. Latterly, I am writing about my experience of dealing with my wife and partner of 40 plus year’s advanced Alzheimer’s.
