Counselling as a profession has an unspoken and difficult relationship with issues of class and income, and discourse around a subject that affects one in five people in the UK remains uniquely undeveloped.
Clare participated in a discussion with the live online audience around the issues raised in her lecture.
Psychotherapy tends to consider itself discrete from the non-psychotherapy world. When we’re being psychotherapists and discussing psychotherapy we don’t also think about the gross domestic product of the country in which we’re working, labour relations or what’s on television.