Finding Your Feet - developing your therapeutic philosophy

Cup of TEA: Finding Your Feet – Developing Your Therapeutic Philosophy

This seminar invites psychotherapists to pause and consider the deeper ground from which their practice grows. Drawing on Keith Tudor’s framework linking Philosophy, Theory, and Practice, we will explore how our implicit beliefs about what it means to be human—our ontology—shape the values we hold, the theories we are drawn to, and the methods we employ. Rather than adopting theoretical models wholesale, this evening is about finding one’s footing: discovering how personal philosophy and lived experience inform the kind of therapist we become. The first hour offers conceptual input, considering Tudor’s view of the practitioner as the centre of a dynamic, reflexive system. The second hour provides space for dialogue, reflection, and live supervision as participants locate their own philosophy-in-action. Come for a cup of TEA—Theory, Ethics, and Application—and leave with firmer footing in who you are, what you…