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
S11 E7 Living Someone Else's Life? Why Career Change and Coming Out Might Feel Simillar
Have you ever had the feeling that your life looks right on the outside… but doesn’t quite feel right on the inside?Whether it’s your career, your relationships, or your identity, many of us reach a point where something feels off, like...
S11 | E6 Coming Out as Bisexual (or Gay) In A Marriage: When It Goes Wrong (And How to Heal)
Hi, I’m John-Paul, and a warm welcome back to the channel. Today’s conversation is an important and often emotional one - what happens when sexual identity is disclosed within a relationship, particularly when disclosure comes after the relatio...
S11 | E5 From Doctor to Therapist: Why and the Reality of Training
Hi, I’m John-Paul Davies and welcome back to the channel.In this conversation, I’m joined by Dr Henry Aughterson (currently working as a doctor and training to become a therapist at Re-Vision in London) to explore what it’s really like ...
S11 | E4 How Much Should You Charge as a Therapist? (And When to Raise Your Fee)
In this video I’m talking about one of the most difficult and important questions when starting or running a private practice: How much should you charge?There’s no single “correct” fee for therapy, which is exactly why this can feel so...
S11 | E3 The Impact of Becoming a Dad (and How to Prepare For it)
In this conversation, I’m joined by therapist and coach Gavin Lashley to explore a topic that often may not get enough attention the psychological journey of the non-birth partner, affectionately, “Dad”.Gavin is an integrative therapist...