The Therapist’s Torment
Transforming our unbearable experiences into good therapy
Recorded Saturday 14 June 2025
A live webinar with Dr Dhwani Shah and Jane Ryan (Chair)
CPD Credits: 3.5 hours
Being a psychotherapist requires, at times, an ability to surrender to unbearable emotional experiences in order to stay emotionally present with the client. Psychotherapy is difficult work to undertake. Yet we rarely discuss the depth of this difficulty or how to manage it.
READ MORE...Through theoretical and clinical material, Dhwani Shah will focus on some of the most agonising experiences he has had in the clinical encounter, including extremities of terror, dissociation, and shame. He will explore how these unique subjective reactions can arise spontaneously in relation to certain clients and how the risk of feeling the intolerable can quickly lead to therapeutic disengagement.
How we make choices when confronted with such mental states, he suggests, is at the heart of ethical practice. Dhwani will demonstrate how the therapist’s capacity to stay with their own deep emotions is both vital to understanding and metabolizing our patients’ emotional experiences, and to our own development as therapists. Acknowledging how difficult this can be, he will share key moments from his most challenging therapy relationships showing how, ultimately, these came strengthen both his work and resilience.
CPD – Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits for 3.5 hours are available as part of the course fee. You will need to pass a multiple choice questionnaire related to the content in order to receive your certificate.
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