This Trusted Place with John-Paul Davies: Mental Health, Therapy & Becoming a Therapist
🎙️ Welcome to This Trusted Place with John-Paul Davies
Honest conversations and reflections on mental health, emotional wellbeing, and the realities of becoming and being a therapist in private practice.
Whether you're a therapist, aspiring to become one, or simply someone curious about the inner world of emotional growth and healing, this podcast offers grounded insights and personal stories that connect.
Hosted by John-Paul Davies, a former City solicitor who retrained as a psychotherapist in 2007, the show explores:
- Changing careers into therapy
- What it’s really like being a therapist and making a living as a helping professional
- Mental health and emotional wellbeing topics inc. relationships, narcissism, trauma, navigating imposter syndrome and burnout, boundaries, self-worth and growth
- Bisexuality
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This Trusted Place with John-Paul Davies: Mental Health, Therapy & Becoming a Therapist
Latest Episodes
S12 | E10 Telling Your Partner You're Bisexual: What If It Goes Well?
What happens when you tell your partner you're bisexual and it goes well?A lot of conversations about bisexuality and coming out understandably focus on fear, conflict, rejection and relationship difficulties. But that isn't everyone's ...
S12 | E9 Is there an advantage to being a male therapist?
Is there an advantage to being a male therapist? It's a question I've been asked a number of times, and after around 15 years working as a therapist, I have quite a few thoughts about it.Psychotherapy is a profession that is overwhelmin...
S12 | E9 Bisexuality, Marriage & Crisis: A Couples Therapist Explains
In this conversation, I talk to therapist Dr Josh Gebhardt about three important questions that can arise when bisexuality intersects with relationships.What happens when a partner comes out as bisexual? How can you support the partner ...
S12 | E8 Can You Make a Living as a Therapist? The Reality of Private Practice
Can you actually make a living as a counsellor or therapist in private practice?This video comes from a question I was asked by someone who loves counselling but is considering further training and needs around £40,000 a year in income....
S12 | E7 “Everybody Wants to Be a Therapist — But Should They?” (GQ Magazine)
Following the recent article in GQ Magazine “Everybody wants to be a therapist - but should they?”, in this video, I explore some of the qualities I think matter in becoming a good therapist, and some of the things that can get in the way of de...
