Should therapists share political views with clients? As polarisation grows, many practitioners feel pressure to take visible positions. This article explores power, neutrality, countertransference, and what actually creates safety in therapeutic relationships.

You’ve probably felt it: that moment when a client expresses pain or longing, and some part of you rushes in to fix, to soften, to save. It might seem like compassion; but often, it’s not. What’s actually happening is a subtle form of boundary confusion in client work: a shift from empathy into rescue that reshapes your entire container. In this article, we'll explore how it happens, what it costs, and how to build safer, more sustainable trauma-informed spaces — without col

Burnout isn’t always loud. For many high-functioning clients, it arrives quietly: after months or years of overriding the body’s cues. What looks like resilience on the outside can often be structural dissociation on the inside. In this piece, we explore how psychosomatic coaching and parts work help practitioners recognise dissociation not just in collapse, but in over-adaptation, over-giving, and the relentless drive to keep going.