Supporting Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy

Sofie Bager-Charleson is Director of Studies on the MPhil/PhD in Psychotherapy at the Metanoia Institute, and a BACP and UKCP registered psychotherapist and supervisor. She chairs the research group “Therapists as Research-informed Practitioners (TRP)” and is the co-founder of the annual Metanoia Research Academy for practitioners. Sofie specialises in areas relating to professional development and research training. Alistair McBeath is a Chartered Psychologist and UKCP registered psychotherapist. Trained at Regents College and Guys Hospital, he is Director of Studies for the Doctorate by Public Works at the Metanoia Institute. Alistair considers himself to be a researcher-practitioner and is keen to promote this identity within the psychotherapy profession. He also works for an Edinburgh based therapeutic consultancy and is a member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal for Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Thematic Reflexive Analysis.- 3. Decolonising Research.- 4. Engaging with critical self-enquiry: Doing heuristic research.- 5. Autoethnographic Psychotherapy Research: A Methodology that keeps our ‘Heart in Mind’.- 6. Quantitative Practice Based Research.- 7. Dilemmas and decisions in Quantitative Driven Online survey research into Researchers’ Mental health and Support.- 8. Using Online Surveys Creatively in Counselling and Psychotherapy Research.- 9. Mixed Methods Research to Build Fences.- 10. Mixed Methods Research: The Case for the Pragmatic researcher.- 11. Dialectical Pluralism (DP) in Counselling and Psychotherapy Research.- 12. Taking Qualitative-driven Mixed Methods Further.- 13. Mixed Methods for Researching Sensitive Topics.