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
Building a Therapy Practice That Actually Lasts
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...
S12 | E3 Porn and Sex Addiction: Recovery, Relationships & What Actually Works | Dr Paula Hall
How do you know when sexual behaviour has become an addiction rather than a healthy expression of sexuality? Why do some people find pornography or compulsive sexual behaviour so difficult to stop? And what actually helps people recover?
S12 | E2 Beyond Instagram: How YouTube Attracts Therapy Clients (And Grows Your Practice)
Tired of the "post and disappear" cycle of traditional social media? I talk in this video about why I think YouTube is the most sustainable way to grow an aligned therapy practice and connect with the right clients.I share my journey of...
S12 | E1 Are We All a Little Bit Narcissistic?
When we think about narcissism, our attention is often drawn to the more extreme end of the spectrum - grandiose narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder. But what if there is also a more ordinary, everyday form of narcissism that many ...