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
S4 | E3 Changing career and career development conversations: Maria Parker
In another fascinating interview, I chat to Maria about her career transition from mental health nurse to psychotherapist...
Key points from the episode:
- Tips for a smoother transition from one career to the other
- Managing the intensity and challenges of the training and then qualifying as a therapist
- Being both conscious of your fear and clear about what you want
- The importance of networking and peer support both on a professional and personal level
- Use of social media
- Being creative in your career development
- Incorporating group and corporate work
- Any regrets about the change of career?
- The ongoing challenges and how to overcome them
- Combining being a therapist with a young family
- Never taking no for answer and also knowing when to walk away
- The importance of following your passion
Maria’s instagram: https://instagram.com/insighttherapy_ire?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Maria’s LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/%F0%9F%8E%97maria-parker%F0%9F%8E%97-73b60a107
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