Psychotherapists and Counsellors Answer your Questions
Conversations with Therapists
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What led you to choose psychotherapy or counselling as a profession?
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Which philosophical approaches have influenced your professional development?
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Which particular aspects of health or the human journey are you interested in?
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What methods do you use?
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When do you think the client will start to feel that progress is being made?
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How has therapy made a difference in your life?
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What do you like most about being a therapist?
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Do you ever have 'bad hair' days?
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What do you think is the most significant problem we face, in the world today?
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Can you share the name of a book, film, song, event or work of art that inspires you?
Donald Marmara
As a teenager, I was diagnosed clinically depressive and for several years I was prescribed ever-increasing dosages of anti-depressant drugs. Eventually I moved to London where I discovered forms of...
Jila Baker
Therapy has helped me to understand that it is a creative process between the therapist, the client and a bigger field of wisdom. I experience joy and peace and happiness having come from a history of...
Tamara Pallos
It has made me more self aware, as well as more empathetic about the human condition and what people go through in life.
Patrick O’Brien
As a recipient of good therapy myself, it improved my self-confidence and my relationships with family and friends. It also helped me with knowing and managing myself better, so I can show up for...
Michelle Morris
My own struggles led me to seek help from a therapist, which has been one of the most transformative experiences of my life. Therapy has helped me to understand and be more accepting of myself and...
Stelle Shakti
In 2015 I experienced a very significant “Plot Twist” to Life and the only way to recover was to embark on a personal healing journey and a path of Soul discovery. It is during this time that I...
Helen Basili
Being overly attached to 'a better person' identity can be problematic as it can result in us overlooking aspects of ourselves that don't align with that identity. Therapy has helped me become more...
Jacquie Flecknoe-Brown
Analysis has had profound effects, not necessarily in changing who we are, but in the understanding and acceptance of ourselves.
Reed Everingham
I have done individual therapy and couples therapy with my partner. I have studied and read extensively, and I love the calm that comes from knowing myself better. I don’t oscillate as wildly as I...
Adam Szmerling
Therapy forces me to step outside myself and listen to people in a way that starts with the assumption that I don;t know what they're talking about. Put differently, that I can learn something new...
Heather Cavill Greer
I feel it is imperative that all therapists do their own personal therapy. My own journey has helped me to really appreciate what's involved in the healing journey, to face the parts that scare me or...
Nigel Bailey
It has enabled a much clearer understanding of both myself and those around me. I have become a much more tolerant and pragmatic person, able to communicate assertively but with appropriate empathy...
Petroula Quinn
I have felt privileged to support so many people who have experienced significant hardship and difficultly. I believe my professional journey has humbled me as a person and I truly am grateful and...
Sudhir Dean
Psychotherapy and meditation together have made me infinitely more happy in myself and with the world around me. It has given me a deeper trust in my skills, capacities and sense of self-worth.
Sarah Kane Lawson
They say that whilst studying counselling you are in fact undergoing therapy yourself . I have found this to be very true.
I feel I am much more able to embrace my vulnerabilities and parts of...
Trudy Clutterbok
I caught up with myself and I don't get in my own way as often as I once did. I returned to my art practice. I learned about love.
Ron Dowd
Psychoanalysis, Jungian analysis, Hillmanian analysis, buddhist-oriented psychotherapy: these have all been extremely important in me finding my way. From a very idealistic young man to a much more...
Angelina Conias
Therapy has made a significant difference in my life by offering me a guiding light through challenging times. It has provided me with tools to manage stress, cope with life's challenges, and improve...
Matthew Austin
I have been in therapy since i was a late adolescent and through that time become more whole and myself.
Kathleen Goossens
It drew me to become a psychotherapist counsellor.
More self and other awareness, kindness and compassion.
Martina Palombi
In so many ways. Yet not without a serious effort and a commitment to working on myself. All of what I am about to say is a work in progress and by no means am I able to do this all the time. It...
Vassilka Dimitrova-Isbell
Well, what does 'better' mean? I think it is making me a fuller person as I too face my own challenges and limitations, which I have to address in order to continue.
Corina Johns
Therapy has helped me understand a great deal about who I am and why - which helps me see much more clearly in relationships with other people in my life. I have found it helps me cope with...
Uri Bookman
I have been in therapy for several years and I continue to explore and grow through supervision and other continuous learning opportunities. During this time, I have healed past trauma, gained a...
Karen Druce
Having one's own personal therapy is a great leveller. It fosters humility and makes one more appreciative of the unique situations and heroic - and not so heroic - efforts of others. Therapy puts you...
Leigh Fraser-Gray
Recovery from childhood trauma has been an on going process. I was able to develop self esteem as an adult and move through an intense and debilitating feelings of shame. Once I FELT and KNEW better,...
Carolyn Zantis
Learning to be present to my own process (through working in a Process Oriented way), and to respect it's message is a powerful tool for working with life's challenges. I don't waste much time in the...
Kate McMaugh
I think I am calmer and more grounded as a result of trying to 'practice what I preach'!
Being a therapist has helped me remain connected to wider society and helps me remain empathic and...
Joshua Comyn
By helping me to get to know my own mind better and inspiring me to continue to expand and deepen my journey of self-discovery.
Tom Skotidas
I no longer judge people. Through my training, I am now always focused on understanding a person's primary, underlying emotions, and the socio-cultural environment pressures they are facing.
Nicole Kinnaird
Overall therapy has supported me to love myself more. Self-love is at the core of all the amazing help I have received from therapy and all of the other ongoing training, workshops, self development...
Andrew Macdonald
We are usually quick to seek help for our physical needs, be it a doctor, dentist or physiotherapist. Seeking support for our emotional and mental health needs helps the all of me feel stronger and...
Suzanne Rosenberg
I am now able to reconise when I am in a triggered state, to name it, to step back and support myself with compassion rather than attack the nearest person, who is usually someone I love dearly. In...
Stephanie de Niese
Both personally and professionally, therapy has made me more compassionate, understanding, empathetic and patient. It has also humbled me immensely. There is something so precious about another human...
Amanda Dounis
Therapy has made me a better person because it has given me knowledge and understanding of our patterning and our programming. Being a therapist requires ongoing professional development. I take this...
Sirini Kularatne-Samarapathi
My spiritual practice of self-awareness, and working with my inner development, I have found that there are many ways to face the challenges that come our way. The self practice has helped me change...
Anthony Hubeck
It has provided me the opportunity to really know myself.
Zoe Hedges
Therapy has made me more tolerant, more thoughtful and more considerate of others. As well as more determined, more forgiving and more willing to try and grow.
Rachael Carter
The biggest change has been healing early developmental and shock trauma when I was under 3 years. I developed more capacity and coherence in my felt system. This has enabled more confidence in my...
John Bacash
Therapy has given me back my life. It set me free of prejudice and fixed ideas about how creativity happens. It helps me not buckle under pressure and it helps me turn adversity into opportunity.
Ruth Edwards
Training to be a counsellor/psychotherapist requires a deep understanding of yourself. This understanding then helps to truly empathise with others who may be going through similar situations. I...
Stefanie Marris
I think the best advice I have been given has been that attention seeking behaviour is really connection seeking behaviour. Once you apply this lens you can see beyond the persons behaviour to the...
Linda Sawrey
It has opened my heart to others and gave me trust in people again.
Julie Chalmers
I am always learning and ever curious about the human condition, human experience and resilience. My work inspires me to be more intentional in my own life and to treat myself with love and...
Natalie Meijer
Yes Therapy combined with my own spiritual practice . Life itself being the ultimate spiritual teacher.
Michele Stewart
Being a therapist and having many experiences of therapy has allowed me to deep dive into relating, conversations and experiences in the most authentic way. It has helped me be more human, vulnerable...
Christopher Seager
Firstly, I don't return to destructive behaviours that threatened to ruin my life and deeply affect those around me. I am a much more content, reflective person and think of others and how they feel,...
Carolyn Choy
I get to know myself better: my strengths and my weaknesses. Together we grow.
Ajay Hawkes
I have been on a personal development journey for 21 years and it has had countless benefits for me over this time, some subtle and some really momentous changes. Briefly, I find that therapy has made...
Bronwen Bailey
Firstly, as a therapist knowing one's own issues and vulnerabilities is crucial to knowing what belongs to the client and what belongs to oneself when one comes to conducting therapy. Knowing oneself...
Shaun McMahon
My own therapy has resulted in a simple, yet important fact to acknowledge; that I'm human. It's so easy in today's world to expect perfection, both of ourselves and others. We seldom allow ourselves...
Julian O'Sullivan
From personal experience, I have seen therapy create massive life-long positive life change and happiness.
Karen Anderson
My own personal therapy has stretched me enormously. In the 1970s and 1980s in particular, like so many others I undertook a broad selection of various individual and group therapies as part of the...
Michelle Lam
It has allowed me to have more clarity about what is important to me as a person and how I want to live my life. By having more compassion for myself I have achieved a lovely work/life balance where I...
Lisa Champion
I have loved my personal therapy journey. I have had many 'light-bulb moments' where I have discovered the reasons why I think, feel and behave the way I do. I have seen how gaining insight and...
Sara Beresford Terry
Yes- that is easy to answer. Being a counsellor requires me to do a great deal of self reflection and make sure my 'stuff' is not interfering with my work with clients. I have heard many sad and...
Melodina Thomas
The study in counselling is in itself a catalyst for therapy. My whole counselling journey has been reflective and more so after delving into my inner most being. There is a sense of awareness which...
Ashley White
Self-awareness is the master variable in life. It gives you greater control over your actions and helps you live a more deliberate and satisfying life. I've experienced first-hand how therapy helps to...
Stefan Durlach
I have problems with the assumptions behind this question. What really is a better' person? We are who we are, and over time we change, sometimes more and sometimes less intentionally. Whilst therapy...
Philip Hilder
I have always enjoyed the way that therapy has opened my mind to broader human possibilities and freedoms. I feel that therapy is a sacred space where magic can and should happen.
Lisa Barrett
Absolutely. I am a great advocate for therapy because it has changed my life! The insights, support, clarity it has given me as I have had the opportunity to explore my challenges, concerns,...
Moira Joyce
I am no better than anyone else, but I have been fortunate enough to use some wonderful methods, and meet some wonderful teachers to examine myself and my own actions as fully as possible so far in my...
Nina Linder
Therapy has made me a more well rounded and well informed person - I have always been very compassionate but often not knowing how it can be of benefit to others. Now I have the skills and knowledge...
Debby Heath
I experienced profound change and growth through my own therapy, so know from a lived experience that therapy with the right practitioner can be life changing.
My experience as a client has given...
Sally Walsh
developing better relationships and realities within my own life
Jacinta Franich
I believe therapy is what brought me to the counselling profession, and got me through my young adult years when I was navigating relationship, moving away from my family, and starting my own family....
Lauren Sokolski
Over many years, I have had the opportunity to participate in therapy, counselling and self-development programs, both personal and professional. I participated in The Landmark Education Forum over 10...
Urja Refalo
Therapy has helped me accept myself more and more. It has also helped me become more aware of my habitual patterns of relating which I am more able to recognise and change. Recognising my uniqueness,...
Nicol Thomas
There are three parts of a Lacanian training; theoretical studies, supervision of one's cases, and one's own personal psychoanalysis. A Lacanian analyst has already grappled with their unconscious in...
Fenella Hansen
Therapy has helped me to grow and flourish. It has allowed me to examine who I am and how I became this person and to work on the aspects of my own life that I felt needed attention. Therapy has...
Ash Rehn
I think there is something quite powerful in the reflective surface that therapy offers us. When we feel safe and acknowledged with a therapist, we are in a position where we can speak more freely...
Mary A McIntyre
It has helped me grow in reflective capacity, patience, insight and courage with willingness to connect with a broad range of people.
Morag Paterson
In essence, it has given me a deeper insight into understanding myself and other people which has led me to have a healthier and kinder relationship with myself. This helps me have a better...
George Turnure
I try to be more mindful of others, more accepting, more patient with loved ones eg partner, friends and family and I aim to foster self-worth in my son.
Claire Baxter
It has made me more aware of my thoughts, feelings and behaviors, and the dynamics at play in my interpersonal relationships.
Stefanie Hagger
Without a doubt.
Therapy has given me the ability to become self aware, to navigate, and transition through overwhelming thoughts, feelings and behaviours, provided me with self-regulation...
Natalie Anderson
It has provided me with a safe space for my own inner journey, and to accept that none of us are responsible for holding up the sky for everyone else all of the time. And while it is important to...
Nick Batty
Therapy has allowed me to help more people by gaining a deeper understanding of a wide range of mood, personality and behavioural issues.
Karen Thomas
Therapy, and in particular Focusing, has brought me greater self-awareness, reflectiveness, and curiosity about my inner world. My relationship with myself has changed deeply, which has greatly...
Lisa Moore
Therapy has not made me a better person, but has made me a better version of myself. The last ten years have been the most challenging years of my life, My children and I moved back to Australia, I...
Tim Coates
From a client's perspective, and yes, I've been in that seat too, therapy has truly transformed me into a better person - it's a work in progress.
It's given me a toolkit, I can use - like...
Michael Booth
Good therapy requires training, supervision and knowledge, but above all, empathy and kindness. Deliberately developing my capacity for empathy and kindness has undoubtedly may me a better person.
Rachel Troia
I love myself and others unconditionally - it doesn't get better than that for me.
Philipa Thornton
While I think I am a work in progress. I think both being a therapist and having my own therapy, I have personally benefited and like to believe I am a more informed, mature, kinder and wiser person...
Stephanie Thompson
The discipline of what in counselling is called 'unconditional positive regard' is extremely personally beneficial. It refers to the rigorous non-judgement of whatever a client brings to the table,...
Christina Taylor
My own therapy has led me to a more fulfilled life, one with laughter and passion - something I had no concept of in my first decades of being a woman.
Joanne Taylor
Knowledge is power. It has helped me be more understanding less judgemental and more able to make sense of the world. Having a very investigative personality I like to know why people act the way that...
Rina Taub
It is a privilege to hear people stories and sharing this process has been inspiring . It has encouraged me to appreciate those around me and connect with values I hold as important and the culture...
Julie Sweet
It comes back to self and therapy has caused me to examine myself, as both an individual and a therapist. It is a collaborative ongoing process and one that teaches me tools, strategies and learnings...
Mano Suttner
It has not made me a better person. It has helped me accept myself as I am, and others as they are, in any given moment, and to cast aside the veil of judgement. Rather than help me feel better, it...
Nerine Strachan
I understand myself better, however it is always an ongoing process. Self development is a life long journey. I have become more self-compassionate, thus this has facilitated my ability to offer...
Arthur Stabolidis
More empathetic and less black and white in my thinking.
Sharon Snir
It has, in the words of St Francis given me
The serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. t
Lidia Smirnov
I am more content, happy, relaxed and comfortable in my own skin. I also have a lot more compassion towards my own suffering and try in those moments to bring kindness to myself.
Jess Siegle
Becoming a therapist, receiving counselling myself and attending regular supervision has definitely made me a better, and more grounded person, and a much better mum!
For most of my life, I lived...
Hadass Segal
Therapy has helped me better understand and appreciate myself, but also be more accountable and genuine with myself in areas in which I still need to grow and learn.
Jenny Sanbrook
It has challenged me to examine my own life, past and present, how I affect others and how I can grow in maturity as a person.
Jessica Ryan-Zeman
I think it's made me very open minded and non judgemental. Most people would say they can talk to me about anything and everything and feel understood.
I think it has made me a better mum...
Amber Rules
This is a BIG question! I could write for pages about how therapy and being a therapist has helped me, but if I had to narrow it right down to a few key things, it would be;
1. It helps me care for...
Karen Rushbrook
Working with children and being thanked for my work is the greatest pleasure in my life. Knowing that I have helped a child or family to live a better life, makes my life seem fulfilled. Over the...
Deborah Rollings
I am more in tune with myself and have developed internal strengths to heal past wounds and make meaning of my life
Nicole Rikos
That's a big question. If I was to sum it up though, I'd say therapy continues to bring the qualities of humility, gratitude and hope into my life.
Victoria Redbard
Therapy has given me the awareness and communication skills to have a fulfilling relationship and be a self responsible leader in my community. It's hard to imagine who I would be today without the...
Robyn Price
It is not my intent to become a better person through therapy but of course, each person I work with, and the relationship we create together, changes me in some way. I definitely have greater...
Karen Potter
Therapy has increased my self-awareness and ability to self-reflect enormously and this has enabled all my relationships in life to be stronger and deeper. I have a stronger connection to nature and...
Lara Petrulis
Facilitating the process of therapy requires a willingness to look within (as a practitioner) at our own issues, core reactions, and past hurts. We have all experienced suffering in our lives and in...
Anna Petinsky
It makes me more loving towards myself. I worry less and enjoy life's many imperfect moments more. Without the self-awareness therapy gives me, I wouldn't be the therapist I am today.
Alexandra Page
I feel calmer, more connected and centered in myself.
Margaret Bennett
It has broadened my understanding of myself and increased patience and compassion for self and others.
Matthew Evans
I think it has made me a more reflective person. I hope I am less quick to judge and have a greater capacity for compassion; however these qualities are best judged by others.
Rosa Oyta
Therapy has allowed me to develop a deeper understanding of human behavior and emotions, which I can apply to my personal life and relationships. My work also encourages self-reflection and...
Debbie O'Connor
My own personal therapy has given me a greater understanding of, and compassion for myself. It has increased my capacity to parent well, understand my children's needs, and also made me a more patient...
Jacqueline Nevin
By having a safe environment for true self-reflection and a new way of looking at things, therapy is a place for personal growth that provides a new sense of calm and control.
Jodie Gale
Therapy has made me a better person through building awareness of self and others.
Psychotherapy has the following benefits and will help you to:
Find resolution of the pervasive underlying causes...
Maggie Morgan
I can't say enough about positive thinking and how, by maintaining a more positive outlook on life, you can cope better with stressful and anxious situations. This is how therapy made me a better...
Marie Mooney
* Improved my connection with myself, including boundaries, purpose, healing my personal wounds and traumas
* Improved my relationships, communication and connection with others
and lots more.......
Dana Mitrovic
Therapy has made me a better person through teaching me how to openly observe to understand the people who I am with. I have learned to observe each person like a sunset, something spectacularly...
Kate Mikhailouskaya
It definitely has. For example my own therapy allowed me to recognise forgotten and abandoned parts of self, that were longing to be found and were raging in the present. Bringing my inner-child into...
Hope Michaelson
As I believe the mind uses the brain to create itself (per Dan Siegel, IPNB), and in order to know the mind I work with energy which all connects to my work with, and understanding of, compassion and...
Michelle McGee
As a therapist I have heard hundreds of stories. I've been shown different sides of human nature and the impact it has - both good and bad. I've seen people rise above adversity. It definitely has...
Jacqueline McDiarmid
I think I am still trying to be a better person. In this field one never stops learning. Therapists are human and have flaws like everyone else. I am constantly reminded of my own flaws when I meet...
Jessica McMillan
I don't view anyone as 'broken'. I can clearly see that there are parts of us that have been wounded, and that we act and react from these parts sometimes. The aim of our system is not to be terrible,...
Karin McLennan
I regularly use the tools that I share with clients in my own inner world, especially when triggered or if I am feeling off-centered. They are incredibly powerful in assisting to access the deeper...
Geraldine McKay
Therapy has given me so much more insight into myself and the experience of being a client.
Emmaline Golding
For me, working with people who go through all sorts of challenges has made me much more grateful, inspired, and non judgemental. We all have tough times, and no one is immune to stress. It helps to...
Deb Gavan
Yes! Therapy is essential for humans and super important for human therapists. It has helped me in my relationships with family, friends and most importantly, my children.
Through therapy and a...
Jean Gamble
As a result of my own healing journey I have much more compassion and understanding for others, am less I-centred, I work with purpose and seldom feel exhausted or overwhelmed as I have much better...
Erin Galt
Self-reflection is an important part of practicing as a psychologist both in my work and in my personal life, and has helped me to always ensure I am being an effective practitioner whilst being...
Elaine Ford
Therapy has helped me to appreciate human existence and the importance of human connectivity. To be in a position where a person can feel liberated to express themselves in a non-judgemental...
Giulia Fiore
Both receiving and providing therapy has helped my life. Receiving therapy has enabled me to identify blind spots and make connections I couldn't see on my own. Providing therapy to others made my...
Elizabeth Fairbanks
This is a HUGE question...
For starters, it saved my life.
Secondly, through therapy I have discovered myself, have come to embody my personhood, and have experienced so much inner peace and...
Miranda Fagan
I would like to think it has made me a better person. But maybe that is best left for others to judge!
I do feel certain that therapy has helped me become a more self-compassionate, mindful and...
Lissette Endacott
Engaging in creative arts therapy has helped me to become a more reflective person, overcome obstacles, experience healing and increase insight to myself, those around me and how I respond to my...
Gregory Egan
The journey to becoming a therapist has made me more self reflective and self aware when it comes to life in general and helped me develop a clear vision and goal for my future to live a more holistic...
Magdalena Jantac
I have uncovered my main blind spots and also triggers. I have refined my coping and self-regulation skills. And this has enabled to show up in a much better way with my friends, family and my...
Tania Djipalo
I now consult myself when making decisions in life, I have emotional agility and can go with the flow. I also am able to process difficult situations and sit with difficult feelings. Most importantly...
Nathan Dick
Learning about psychology, counselling and psychotherapy has changed the way I see the world, and people in it. I am yet to meet a person who I would write off. Everyone can get help. I find, if we...
Kerriann Dear
Lots of reflective practice and a little help from my own therapists and supervisors as well as yoga training has led me to respond rather than react to my life circumstances. But it is always a work...
Kate Deakin
I have become and am continuing to grow more aware of the inner workings of my psyche. As I grow in self-awareness I am more aware of my body as a resource, thoughts, perceptions, belief structures,...
Conny Davis
It has given me a rich insight into my own family dynamics and made me acutely aware of my own core beliefs and values. It has given me a deep understanding of everyones unique qualities and taught me...
Bronwyn Davies Glover
Therapy has offered me the opportunity to learn about humanity, compassion, strength, survival and hope. Each client teaches me through their stories of survival and vulnerability and I learn how to...
Amy Datyner
Therapy provides a rich opportunity for self reflection and growth. It is able to hold us during times of intense stress. I value the privilege I have to work alongside families and support them...
Karen Curran
My own personal therapy has made me a better person because the level of deep that I go with myself, is the level of deep that I can take my clients safely. It is a natural progression. I reflect...
Ivan Cunningham
It is an honour to be trusted with the personal information that the client shares with me, and this alone makes me want to do my utmost to help them to heal. The most satisfying feeling I get is when...
Howard Colin-Thome
Therapy has made me a better person through greater self-awareness, emotional understanding and awareness and also resolution of past issues.
Mairead Cleary
I have infinitely more understanding and compassion for the behaviours I see and hear about in people. Therapeutic work has shown me and allowed me to experience that we're all in the same boat....
Carlyn Chen
Therapy calls me to grow, reflect, learn, be honest with myself and others and go ever deeper into the complexity of the human experience. It continues to open my mind and perspective on the world and...
Mary Cantrill
Engaging in my own therapy helps me gain personal insight and self-awareness, which is crucial for maintaining a healthy therapeutic relationship with my clients. Secondly, it allows me to process my...
Jan Campbell-Thompson
As far as I'm concerned, therapy is the greatest gift I've ever given to myself and I have no doubt whatsoever, that I would not be the Woman I am today without it. The thing with therapy/analysis is...
Kerstin Buccoliero
Overcoming poor self-esteem as well as fully returning to my body. Both allowed me to live the life I always dreamed of having: A functioning and loving family/ still having fun exploring new things...
Jocelyn Brewer
I enjoy the opportunity to attend therapy myself and reflect on my own growth, struggles and times of 'stuckness'. I find it's so valuable to have another person's perspective to help me check my own...
Sharon Bonello
Therapy makes me a better person because I have more empathy and understanding of emotion and recognize that we are all quite vulnerable to change.
It has allowed me to work through my stuff and to...
Steve Bonanno
Being in therapy has supported me to understand what makes me tick! I can finally face those thoughts and feelings that I used to hide away from, and this has improved the relationships I have with...
Christine Bennett
Therapy has made me a better person with improved self-awareness. I am more aware of my thoughts, feelings, and how I behave as a result. This increased self-awareness has helped me better understand...
Christopher Basten
I have learned a lot about courage, love and patience from my clients. I do 'practice what I preach' (at least sometimes).
Vivian Baruch
Helping others achieve healing & find confidence & clarity in their life choices is my guiding purpose. Therapy provides a safe & structured way to offer compassion & find a deeper meaning behind the...
Duda Baldwin
I personally attend therapy when needed and it always helped me finding clarity when I doubted my own experience and perspectives. I personally seek a therapist who can challenge my ego and...
Heather Adams
My own personal therapy, mandatory through four years of study and ongoing supervision over the past 11 years, has given me the capacity to sit alongside deep anguish, despair and other intense and...
Janelle Wright
It has helped me to develop resilience, self compassion and compassion toward others. I have developed a broader perspective on the complexities and strengths we have as humans.
John Woodcock
Therapy can be a job, a career that one can do, and come home from, like any other job. It can also be a Way! My work as a therapist is simply one aspect of my path in this life. Everything I do in as...
Judith Withers
greater empathy, greater self understanding and a greater understanding of others. Also a more positive attitude
Veronik Verkest
Therapy has opened my heart to more fully accept different parts of me and in turn others, with curiosity and without judgement. Therapy has enabled me to deeply listen to my body and trust my inner...
Michael Vaccaro
Over the last 24 years since my first therapy session, I have completely transformed myself and my life. I don't know if I would use the words, better person, but I can say that I am more in love...
Stacey McCraw
You won't ever find me ranting about someone's bad behaviour. I can usually think of plenty of compassionate explanations for understanding the way people are.
Graeme James
I have been a client, practice as a therapist, supervise other therapists and also train counsellors and therapists. Each of these experiences provides an opportunity for me to learn by reflecting...
Jessica Vivien
It has made me much less reactive and much more mindful. TRTP has cured my own chronic fatigue after it haunted me for about 3 years, and TRTP also took the sting out of my previous triggers so they...
Michelle Lin
Therapy has empowered me in my own healing journey and enriched my family relationships.
It clarifies and keeps me on track of my values and goals when sneaky captialism and colonialisation makes me...
Mia Kennedy
To become a qualified psychotherapist it is mandatory that you also receive psychotherapy. In part, this is so you can understand the vulnerability that comes along with opening yourself up to another...
Carol Marando
In every way. It's made me compassionate, empathetic, less judgemental, less viciously self critical, less shameful, more confident, happy with myself, a better partner and mother etc. etc. etc. It's...
Gabriele (Gabe) Marranci
Therapy, especially with the Internal Family Systems (IFS) approach, has been a truly transformative experience. It's not just about my clients' growth; it has also profoundly impacted my journey....
David Mandrake
I am a much happier person for having made a commitment to my own health and well being more than fifteen years ago.
Lana Lubimoff
I have learned a great deal about personal development as a therapist.
Andrew Lindsay
I continue with personal psychotherapy and professional supervision which I have had for over 20 years. In this way I can say I practice what I preach and it helps me stay in touch with the core...
April Lewis
Therapy has made me a better person because it has allowed me to embrace all parts of my self, including the parts that I learnt at an early age to suppress or disavow. It provided a safe place where...
Tessa Ipp
Yes I definitely feel and see the changes that have happened in my life. When I look back on my journey as a client, then student, and professional therapist I can see how I have developed as a human....
Natasha Lawrence
I am aware of how my history effects me today. Having struggled with my own past, I have great empathy for people who are trying to do the same. This makes me a better counsellor as I really have a...
Kelsey Hendrickson
Therapy has brought a lot of my unconscious behaviour and thoughts to the conscious level; increasing my self awareness. With that increased level of self awareness comes more choice in my life to...
Martin Hemsley
Therapy for me has bee a great journey of self-discovery. Through it I have gained more self awareness and composure. I have experienced relief from issues such as anxiety and low self-esteem, and to...
Geoff Heard
I think that we are all good people, its just that stuff gets in the way of our making our goodness and creativity felt in the world. I have managed to remove some of the obstacles, especially around...
Megan Haire
Having therapy or doing therapy???
I don't know that 'being a better person' is how I would describe my goals for therapy. Having therapy myself made me more true to myself, and less worried about...
Heather O'Neill
Individual therapy made me realise that therapists should talk less!
I wouldn't say therapy has made me a better person per say, but it improved my self esteem. An analogy I can relate to is...
Cherie Dorotich
Tolerance - definitely tolerance. The understanding that at the beginning we are all the same, in the middle we all walk with our own stories, and at the end we are all reflectively wise.
Oliver Brooke
I believe I can only take my clients as far as I have gone myself. I am of the view that as therapists we have to practice what we preach. So I regularly see my own IFS therapist. It has given me a...
Dian Abdurachman
I need to continually make an effort to connect to myself (body and soul) as much as I can.
David Indermaur
By being more honest with myself. It is interesting just how self deceptive (some might say “deludedâ€) we can be in the confines of our own mind. In therapy (the right therapy) we are...
Sonia Scussel
It increased my self-awareness and ability to feel compassionate toward myself. It gave me the roots I always missed throughout childhood, adolescence and as a young adult. Therapy gave me a different...
Carolyn Spillett
It has taught me the difference between empathy and sympathy and has showed me how to listen, set boundaries, ask for what I need and own what is mine. It has shown me the power of compassion and has...
Debra Sumner
Therapy has made me a better person because it has shown me that we all at some point need help. I believe that when we are ready to reach out and ask for help there is always someone who is skilled...
Mark Walker
I understand myself, my family of origin and other people (in general) so much better. We are amazing and strange creatures and that both intrigues and challenges me.
Katie Beckwith
Committing the therapy on myself was the best thing I had ever done, and none so much or so meaningfully as the therapy I undertook while training as a holistic counsellor and psychotherapist. It has...
Jon Nielsen
My own personal therapy has helped me to see the ways in which my past has influenced my present behaviour. It has given me awareness and provided me with strategies to work towards becoming more of...
Alicja Weidner
I am happy and fulfilled because I am doing what is my real passion. I feel I make a difference in people's life - and one can not ask for a better reward.
Tanya Robinson
I have dedicated the past twenty years to support people. I believe that a person's mental health should at all times be prioritised. I do believe I add value to my client's lives, however in return I...
Melis Topsahin
Therapy has added 'purpose' in my life! This journey is like no other and I proudly have devoted my whole journey towards assisting as many client(s) I am trained to assist.
Being a therapist has...
Gabby Skelsey
Therapy has informed me, not necessarily to be a better person, but to learn from clients, invest in keeping up with current trends and emerging theories and to look after my own mental health.
Deborah Schou
It keeps me anchored to my values, and reminds me that I've got a lot to learn, as each client presents a new story and requires me to be the best therapist I can be for them.
Penelope Lovegrove
I think everyone should be in therapy! It's wonderful to be able to talk with someone without fear of judgement. Someone who is going to really listen. Someone who you can say anything to, nut things...
Grace Lee
I have found that building meaningful, genuine relationships with my clients has made them feel better about themselves. As I share in their experiences, I find that I grow in my understanding at the...
Denise Tsirtsakis
I have learnt the skill of active listening. I used to be a person who always listened to respond, now I just listen. It has also broadened my thoughts on human behaviours and intentions. Most people...
Jonathan Tandos
I feel like I have grown and changed a great deal through both the therapy I have undergone myself and and that I now deliver. Each of my clients is a teacher to me. Through therapy I have become more...
Dee Kumbukage
Therapy has played a significant role in my personal growth and transformation, making me a better person in many ways. Through the therapeutic process, I have gained a deeper understanding of myself,...
Denise Howells
I have become a more thoughtful and understanding person. I am more accepting of difference and understand that everyone has a valuable life story.
Volker Krohn
All the inner work that I have done over the years, has helped me to develop a greater willingness to experience anything that comes to meet me in life. It has also made me more aware of my own...
Dee Hardy
Personally, I have undertaken many therapy sessions in my lifetime, to assist with seeing things beyond my emotional connection to a certain situation, as and when required...this has been an...
Christina Kioulafas
It has certainly held a mirror up to me and shown me how to own all the parts of myself, even those I don't like. It has made me a better parent and partner, but I am still learning, Everyday.
Yael Clark
Immeasurably! Especially as a parent. But that is an ongoing journey.
Marvel Adeyemi
Therapy helps me explore my emotions, thoughts and behaviours; helping me identify my strengths and areas that could use improvements, Therapy also provides me with effective tools to reach my goals.
Robin Wilkinson
It's given me more insight and self-awareness and helped me respond to difficulties much better. I'm a more patient person and more accepting of the parts of myself that I struggle to love, which in...
Brian Whiter
As the cliché has it, it's not the goal, it's the journey'! Therapists are no less flawed than anyone else. Indeed most have to a greater or lesser extent suffered, and the process of...
Steve White
It's scary for me to imagine my life if I hadn't done the therapy I have. I am undoubtedly more relaxed, sleep well and am less reactive (oversensitive).
Sharn Waldron
It has made me more aware of my own feelings and inner motivations.
Natalie Incledon
Therapy has provided me with a broad range of perspective into life and the human condition. Learning from my clients has made me a wiser and more balanced human being. I am inspired by humans and...
M.Rose Hoey
Being an ISTDP therapist has deepened my compassion and empathy for the patient and myself. It has honed my listening skills, my observation skills when I experience my mirror neutrons firing, as my...
Nina Green
I often remember my clients when I'm doing something I find challenging - one woman I worked with experienced very intense anxiety but continually turned up to things she valued, and I found it so...
Laura Emilia Escudero
Laura loves to be of service to others and to witness how people can heal themselves, realising that they don't have to be stuck and can come back to alignment and healing in a grounded way.
Her...
Marcus Dally-Law
Once in a while I will go on a cleaning frenzy where I pick everything out of a draw or a cupboard, spread it on the floor, sort what it useful or not useful and then put everything back in a more...
Jane Devilliers
Happier and more accepting of myself.
Being less anxious, less fearful, more confident, having feelings of gladness.
Kate Culy
In so many ways, perhaps the most significant is that it has taught me to be self compassionate
Loretta Bell
I continually learn about my self and the world as I work with people. Being a therapist has expanded my viewpoint and stressed the importance of living within your values and acting towards your best...
Tracy Clark
Therapy has made me a better person by improving my self worth and giving me insights into my life and life relationships. I have gained an understanding and awareness of how to let go of negative...
Dalit Bar
It has allowed me to live an honest life full of creativity and relationships with others. I have more awareness and clarity of what is important to me.
Nicky Angelone
I wouldn't be where I am today without therapy. My therapist has been there through my career challenges, life challenges, relational challenges, and supported me in believing I could do what I'm...
Julia McKenzie Palmer
Good question. I think therapy has given me the opportunity to reflect & reconnect with myself. In this fast paced world it's easy to lose connection with ourselves & those we love
Darius Leo
It is an interesting question. I don't think about people as being either good' or bad'. We are simply people. Therapy has certainly made me a different person. I have come to much deeper...
Jane Faulkner
Working with people and being a therapist teach's me so much about myself, I learn something from everyone I work with, I also feel honoured to have the role I do.
Matt Dale
Being a therapist for many years has offered me personal insights, learnings and skills that have been an enormous benefit personally. I have learnt the power of truly listening - hearing beyond the...
Romana Bowd
I am humbled on a daily basis at the strength, courage and endurance of the wonderful clients who actively choose to make the massive decision to seek out a total stranger to help them start a new...
Donna Neck
Therapy has made me a better person because it made me realise the benefit in seeking assistance promptly for my issues, as opposed to letting them manifest into more complicated issues which would...
Gregg Palmer
It has continually challenged me to undermine my ego defences and live authentically from a more heart oriented perspective. There is no other way to extract the rich nectar of ecstasy from life.
Emily Rotta
Therapy gives me the tools and personal awareness that my experiences and feelings are a normal reaction. Therapy gives me an environment to feel support and better able to cope with the situation.
Michelle McClintock
I'm less judgmental;, more accepting, more open, more self-aware, content, full of gratitude, peaceful, compassion to others and myself, more encouraging to self and others...
Alison Keane
Therapy has definitely made me a better person! It has helped me to step outside a narrow perspective and see the bigger picture of things which is more hopeful and encouraging. But it is not just...
Daisy Dollisson-Oatley
I use this modality for my own inner work and meditations and also often have swap sessions with colleagues. I also regularly get my own therapy. This has helped my life immensely.
Mark De Calmer
Therapy allowed me to find light in the darkest of places and learn to move forward from stuck positions. I became able to look at alternative thought processes instead of a belief system that...
Claire Stephensen
Studying music therapy kick-started a new era of personal development for me. I feel really fortunate to work in a field where personal development and self-care is essential. I am continually...
Sigrid O'Callaghan
Better in terms of an overall enrichment of emotional experiences and the increased capacity to enjoy art, music, literature, friendships, self-care and spirituality.
Sarah Harwood
Having my own personal therapy has helped me with my own patterns of relationship. Being a therapist helps me to be a better mother, as I have learnt to be stronger, wiser and kind. Providing psycho...
Sarah Bergman
I am a lot more aware of myself the good and not so good. I am more accepting of all of myself. I am more patient and kind to myself and others. I am able to accept difference without taking it...
Natajsa Wagner
As a therapist walking my talk is something that is important to me. Having awareness of my own edges, vulnerabilities, and places to grow means that I am able to support my clients. I am able to know...
Niki Gelekis
I have been on my own emotional healing journey for many years and have integrated many of my wounded parts that have allowed me to have more meaningful relationship in my life. I have learnt to...
Louise Jansz
Of course! It is very humbling to bear witness and I understand rank and privilege in our society in a deeper way.
Steven Segal
My own experience as a client in therapy has allowed me to bring out the best in me. It has given me a sense of self confidence and self-worth. I have found meaning and purpose through psychotherapy....
Johanna Waugh
Yes, I believe it has happened. When I went to see my therapist, I realised that my head was full from all of the issues I was dealing with. Talking to someone let me see things a lot more clearly. It...
Neha Kapoor
Therapy has been incredibly valuable in my personal growth. It has not only enhanced my self-understanding but also deepened my comprehension of others, enriching my relationships on a profound level.
Brenda Rowlandson
I am more resilient; I have fewer highs and lows and the peaks and troughs are no longer extreme; I can think my way through dilemmas, as well as feeling the feelings, and I don't need to rely on...
Peter Howie
Its made me a better learner. I have become good at learning for myself. I have also become good at learning about other people.
Dinah Buchanan
I have grown so much personally and spiritually in my personal therapy journey over the years and know that what I am offering is essentially a therapy journey that has rich rewards for both therapist...
Steven Dromgool
Has it? I feel amazingly lucky to have the trust of my clients and to be able to help people fall in love again in my office everyday. It also helps me see the impact of loving/ and unloving behaviour...
Jeannene Eastaway
The things I encourage or support in counselling I do myself. I have certainly had my own therapy to work on areas in my life needing recovery or healing. My journey has continued in growing in...
Rosie Burgess
Therapy has helped me to learn to communicate, to regulate my emotions, to be a better listener. It has also helped me understand how the experiences I had as a child have shaped me and continue to...
Bhakti De Bon
Being a therapist has made me less reactive and more responsive.
Mark McMahon
It is a complete privilege to sit opposite a client (as an equal in the room), and for them to share the details of their life. The therapeutic space may allow clients to be vulnerable, and for the...
Katie Watson
Therapy has made me understand human behaviour better and realise that we all experience issues in our lives, we are not alone in this,
Katharine Northall
The understanding that it has given me about myself has changed everything. It has also brought me choice. Prior to my therapeutic journey I did not realise that I could look at things differently, do...
Chris Chicoteau
Enabled me to get clearer about my own personal and relational values and at times recognizing how I get 'in my own way' in relationships.
Tim Clark
For me, the great gift of therapy has been forgiveness. I am now much better at forgiving myself for my imperfections and empathising with others, which means I am able to love more fully than I could...
Sarah Tuckett
My own therapy journey has made me more 'open' emotionally and more tolerant. It has also forced me to grow up and accept ownership/responsibility for my feelings and my reactions. I think it has...
Corinne Lindsell
Personally as a recipient of therapy I have developed life skills.
As a therapist, it is fulfilling to see people reach their goals and strive for health.
The professional and personal...
Patrick Moloney
Apart from my own personal therapy, working as a therapist has given me a much better appreciation of the challenges that affect others. I have become more broadminded and accepting of others.
Christine Vickers
I think it has made me a more aware and thoughtful person and as a result free to pursue my own goals and purposes. I also think it has provided the resources and enabled the resiliance to deal with...
