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
🔗 Watch the video versions on YouTube: youtube.com/@JohnPaulDaviesTTP
🌐 More about John-Paul: thistrustedplace.co.uk
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Podcasting since 2022 • 99 episodes
This Trusted Place with John-Paul Davies: Mental Health, Therapy & Becoming a Therapist
Latest Episodes
S10 | E 10 We're More Connected Than Ever – So Why Are We So Alone?
Human Connection in a Digital WorldIn this video, I’m sharing a practice version of a talk I gave for Rail Wellbeing Live on one of the most important foundations of good mental health: connection. After 15 years as a therapist, I’ve co...
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Season 10
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Episode 10
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S10 | E9 Thinking About Changing Career and Becoming a Therapist? Watch This Compilation First
Thinking about a career change? If you’ve been wondering whether it’s possible to leave a job that isn’t fulfilling and explore something completely new, like becoming a therapist, this video is for you. I share clips from my own journey, plus ...
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Episode 9
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S10 | E8 Best of My Bisexuality Videos – Stories, Reflections & Advice
This is a compilation of what I think are some of the most meaningful moments from my videos and conversations on bisexuality so far, including pieces from my chats with Rob Brooks Cohen, Robyn Ochs, Tom Ward-Thomas and Mark Cuzack, as well as ...
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Season 10
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Episode 8
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17:30
S10 | E7 Why So Many Teens Are Struggling – And What Really Helps (with Dr Will Dobud)
In this video I’m talking with Dr Will Dobud about something I’ve barely touched on before: youth mental health. Anxiety, depression, self-harm and distress in teenagers are reported to have risen dramatically in recent years, even...
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Season 10
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Episode 7
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S10 | E6 How I Found The Confidence To Leave Corporate Life and Become A Therapist
Changing career doesn’t start with confidence, I think it starts with small choices that help you feel more connected to yourself.In this video I talk honestly about confidence and career change and why you don’t need to feel confident ...
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Season 10
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Episode 6
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35:42