Personal therapy in the training of therapists

Abstract

This paper highlights challenges made to the model of mandatory individual personal therapy for therapists in training in order to widen the debate. A requirement for individual personal therapy for therapists in training is more congruent with some therapeutic modalities than others. The views expressed in this paper have been reached after consideration of needs across different modalities and awareness of the available research evidence. ‘Counselling’, ‘psychotherapy’ and ‘therapy’ are used interchangeably.