Sometimes your therapist needs their own therapist – and that’s a good thing | Gill Straker and Jacqui Winship

Supervision for psychotherapists can play a vital role in illuminating relational blind spots that may be affecting the therapeutic process

• The modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their work

Psychotherapists often need to embark on their own therapy to understand themselves more deeply and to unpack more specifically how their own issues and relational patterns affect their work.

All forms of psychotherapy share in common a significant relationship between patient and therapist, with research strongly indicating that the quality of this relationship is crucial to the treatment.