Welcome to this 54th episode of Questioning Woke Psychotherapy. In this episode I speak with Dr. Val Thomas who has recently published an essay “What’s in a Name? Not ‘Activist Therapists’ but ‘Identity Practitioners’. She proposes a new term for “activist therapists”. “Identity practitioners” is what we should call them instead. This is a much more accurate term and places them outside of the umbrella of therapy where they belong. Join us to hear her solid argument for this new term. If you agree with Dr. Thomas, please share this video widely! We need to spread the word until “Identity Practitioner” becomes the common way to refer to “Woke Psychotherapy”. I may even have to change the title of this series!
A bit about Dr. Val Thomas: Val Thomas, DPsych, a psychotherapist, researcher, writer and formerly a counsellor educator. Her specialism is applications of mental imagery. She is author of two Routledge publications Using Mental Imagery in Counselling and Psychotherapy (2015) and Using Mental Imagery to Enhance Creative and Work-Related Processes (2019). She is also the editor of the 2023 collection of essays, Cynical Therapies.
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