25/06/2026
Can we really support clients if we don't understand our own internal world?
It's one of the oldest questions in our field, and one of the most important.
The therapeutic relationship asks a great deal of you. To hold another person's pain, you need to know something of your own. To sit with uncertainty, you need to have practised tolerating it yourself.
Observing and sitting with the unknown may be something you have known from an early age. At the time, you might not have described it in those terms; it simply felt like a normal part of life and, in many ways, a necessity. Later, through your psychotherapy training, you may come to recognise that these capacities had already begun to develop in childhood, becoming valuable resources in your learning and clinical development.
At the Minster Centre, developing the ability to reflect on your own process - your personal history, identity, intersectionality, and patterns of relating with others - is woven into the fabric of the training.
And through this ongoing process of self-reflection, you are supported in cultivating the self-awareness, resilience, and relational depth that are essential to therapeutic work.
