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
S4 | E7 How I Went from an Uninspiring Job to Hypno-Psychotherapist, Best-Selling Author, and Top Podcaster
Interview with Richard Nicholls about his incredible career change from an ordinary job to a skilled hypno-psychotherapist, writing a best-selling self-help book and producing a successful podcast which has previously been at the top of the podcast charts.
In this engaging episode, we cover a variety of topics including:
- the reasons why he decided to train to become a therapist and how he went about that intensive training process,
- the strategies he utilised to grow his private practice over time, which can be immensely helpful for aspiring therapists,
- why he transitioned to producing his podcasts and how he goes about creating compelling content,
- some of the common challenges he has faced as a podcaster and how he has managed to overcome them,
- valuable advice that he offers for people entering the therapy profession as well as for anyone who has aspirations to produce their own podcast and share their voice with the world.
You can find the link for Richard's podcast and other resources here: https://t.co/rJoZTudFmB
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YouTube channel:
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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