Would you like to share your experience?

Have you, as a counsellor, experienced moments in therapy where you felt unusually attuned to a client? Perhaps, you have experiences that were difficult to put not words - profound, meaningful, or hard to explain in conventional therapeutic terms. You may have experienced a particularly strong sense of connection, presence, unity, or something that you understood as extending beyond the usual therapeutic encounter.

As part of my MA studies in Counselling at Waverley Abbey College, I am inviting counsellors to take part in a research study exploring how counsellors experience and make sense of relational moments that they perceive as ‘transpersonal’ within the therapeutic encounter.

What is involved?

• A one-time, 45-60-minute semi-structured interview conducted via Microsoft Teams.
• The interview will be arranged at a mutually convenient time.
• The interview will explore your lived experience of relational moments that you perceive as transpersonal within your work with clients.
• With your consent, the interview will be audio recorded and transcribed to enable in-depth phenomenological analysis.
• Your participation will be voluntary and confidential, and your data will be anonymised in the research.
• All research data will be securely stored and destroyed in accordance with the study's data management requirements, and no later than six months after completion of the dissertation.

Am I eligible to participate?

You are invited to participate if you:

• Are a qualified counsellor, trained to at least Diploma level.
• Have a minimum of one year of clinical counselling experience.
• Are currently engaged in providing counselling.
• Have experienced one or more relational moments within the therapeutic encounter that you perceive or understand as transpersonal.

Why should I participate?

By sharing your experience, you can contribute to a deeper understanding of counsellors’ experiences of profound relational moments within therapeutic practice and how such experiences are understood and integrated into professional practice.

Ethical approval

This study has received ethical approval from the Waverley Abbey College Research Ethics Committee.

Interested in taking part?

For further information or to register your interest in participating, please contact: Dorotea West Email: dorotea.west@waverleyabbeycollege.ac.uk I would be very grateful for your interest and consideration in contributing to this research.

Please see here to view the participant information sheet