Qualitative research has the potential to explore patient and therapist experiences of
psychotherapeutic processes, as well as the challenges and opportunities inherent in …

Psychotherapy researchers are increasingly using qualitative approaches to gain
knowledge about the experiential, relational, and sociocultural aspects of psychological …

An accessible, practical introduction to carrying out qualitative research in psychotherapy
and counselling for practitioners who want or who are required to contribute to the …

Aims The aim of this study was to offer a view of how, as a counselling practitioner‐
researcher, I use my personal experiences reflexively in research. By 'showing'and …

The paper offers a perspective on some of the methodological issues present in current
qualitative psychotherapy research (QPR). The authors are involved in this type of research …

Qualitative research today must develop tools to better clarify the processes of data
interpretation. Studies on reflexivity have made inroads in this direction by stressing the …

Research collaboration with people with first-hand knowledge of mental distress and
recovery processes has been argued to hold potential of making studies more relevant and …

This paper argues that research approaches which are aimed at developing our
understanding of psychotherapy which fail to address the client's interpretation of events will …

This paper expands the concept of reflexivity used in the paper that follows (page 48). There
are many ways of explaining reflexivity, which has been described as involving complex …

Qualitative research has much to offer counsellors and psychotherapists, in terms of
generating new understandings of the complexities of the therapeutic process, and in …