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
S5 | E4 Career Change Tips on Becoming a Therapist: 5 Things I Wish I Knew
Previous video available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGhCIkL2t6s
Making the leap to become a therapist can feel daunting, especially when you're navigating the uncertainty that comes with a career change. In this follow-up podcast, I’m sharing 5 key pieces of advice I wish I’d known before becoming a therapist/psychotherapist/counsellor.
From mindset shifts to practical steps, this podcast covers the essential things that can help you as you move through training and early client work. Plus, I’ll touch on the importance of support from others during the journey, as we all need a community to lean on as we grow into this career.
If you’re a new or trainee therapist (or thinking about it), I hope these tips provide you with some helpful guidance as you take those next steps!
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YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@JohnPaulDaviesTTP
If there’s anything else you’d like to know about John-Paul and how he might be able to help you, please do contact him via his website www.thistrustedplace.co.uk