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 | 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...
S12 | E6 ADHD, Addiction & Finding Myself After Alan Carr: Paul Drayton
In this deeply personal interview, Paul Drayton opens up about his journey through ADHD, addiction, recovery and the process of finally discovering his authentic self.Paul reflects on his life in the public eye, his marriage to Alan Car...
S12 | E5 What They Don't Teach You About Running a Therapy Practice
What does it really take to build a private therapy practice that you can sustain for years?There are lots of things we learn during psychotherapy training, but there are also many practical realities of being a therapist that we only d...
S12 | E4 Do I Have to Explore My Bisexuality?
If you've recently realised you're bisexual while in a long-term relationship, one question often comes up:"Do I have to explore this?"In this clip, coach and author Rob Brooks Cohen explains why there's no one-size-fits-all ans...