The internet can be both a treasure trove of insightful content and entertainment, and also a source of overwhelming information. That’s why the BTP team has come together to curate a Therapist‘s Corner post for you.
June’s Therapist‘s Corner includes a selection of the best TV shows, books, podcasts, blogs, resources, quotes and memes (both classic and new) that we’ve come across to support you in your therapy and counselling work.
Our goal is to educate, inform and occasionally bring a smile to your face, and make your online experience a little more enjoyable.
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TV/Cinema
Sneaky Pete
Sneaky Pete is a crime drama with dark comedy elements centered on identity, deception, survival, and the complicated nature of family. The story follows a recently released con man who assumes the identity of his former cellmate, “Pete,” in order to escape dangerous people from his past. What begins as a temporary disguise slowly becomes more emotionally complicated when he is drawn into the real Pete’s estranged family and their struggling bail bond business.
As the series unfolds, the main character constantly balances lies with genuine connection. He becomes entangled in scams, criminal threats, debt, and investigations, while also forming unexpected relationships with the family who believe he is someone else. Much of the tension comes from whether he can continue maintaining the illusion and whether he even wants to return to his old life.
Available to watch on Amazon Prime
Maid
Maid follows a single mother who escapes an abusive relationship and struggles with economic hardship, trauma, and anxiety while working low-wage jobs to support her daughter.
This series sensitively portrays the lingering effects of trauma and socioeconomic stress, showing how anxiety, hypervigilance, and emotional burnout can affect daily functioning. It shows that healing is nonlinear and often requires external support and systemic change.
Available to watch on Netflix
Books
“Shrink Solves Murder” – Philippa Perry
Shrink Solves Murder is a light-hearted murder mystery that blends psychological insight, village intrigue, and dark humor. The story begins when a psychotherapist’s patient is found dead near the cliffs of Beachy Head, in what authorities quickly label a suicide. However, because of her experience listening closely to people’s inner lives and hidden struggles, she senses that something about the story doesn’t add up.
Driven by intuition and curiosity, she starts investigating the death herself. Alongside her eccentric but socially gifted best friend, she uncovers tensions, secrets, and buried motives within the seemingly peaceful village community. As they dig deeper, they discover that beneath the surface of ordinary life lies manipulation, desire, loneliness, and deception.
Philippa Perry is an artist and psychotherapist as well as a TV and radio host. She is the bestselling author of The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read and The Book You Want Everyone You Love* to Read (*And Maybe a Few You Don’t).
“Counselling and Class” – Clare Slaney
Counselling and Class explores how social class and inequality shape both therapy and the counselling profession. It argues that counselling has become increasingly inaccessible and dominated by middle-class values, excluding many working-class voices. The book calls for a more inclusive, socially aware approach to therapy that recognizes the impact of class on people’s lives and mental health.
Clare Slaney is an established counsellor, groupworker and supervisor based in Central London. Her practice is rooted in the person-centred and existential traditions and grounded in authenticity, paradox and the continual negotiation between self and society.
“Trauma and Recovery – The Aftermath of Violence–From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror” – Judith Herman
Trauma and Recovery explores how trauma affects survivors of abuse, violence, war, and political oppression. The book examines the psychological impact of trauma, the process of recovery, and the importance of safety, connection, and empowerment in healing. It also highlights how trauma is shaped by wider social and political systems, not just individual experience.
Judith L. Herman, MD, is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
“The Mind Movement: Integrating Body, Breath and Movement in Therapy” – Lorna Evans
The Mind Movement explores how body awareness, breathwork, and movement can be integrated into therapy practice. Combining psychoanalytic ideas with neuroscience, the book explains how the body and nervous system influence emotional wellbeing and healing. It offers practical tools for therapists to use both in person and online, encouraging a more embodied and holistic approach to mental health.
Lorna is an Integrative Psychotherapist, holding an MSc in Body Awareness & Psychotherapy. Lorna proudly integrates psychotherapy and the body with a focus on Breath & Movement as healing tools for trauma, anxiety and depression.
“And How Does That Make You Feel?: everything you (n)ever wanted to know about therapy” – Joshua Fletcher
And How Does That Make You Feel? offers an honest and humorous look inside the therapy room through the stories of four clients beginning therapy. Blending real-life therapeutic experiences with practical mental health advice, the book explores issues such as anxiety, OCD, panic attacks, and personal growth, while also giving insight into the emotional realities of being a therapist.
Joshua Fletcher is a Manchester-based author, therapist and media personality specialising in anxiety. Having been diagnosed with several anxiety conditions, Joshua combines his professional knowledge with lived experience to educate and help others.
Recommended Podcasts
“The panic pod: Anxiety Help” – Joshua Fletches
The Panic Pod: Anxiety Help is a mental health podcast focused on anxiety, panic attacks, OCD, agoraphobia, health anxiety, and related struggles. Hosted by psychotherapist Joshua Fletcher, the podcast combines professional knowledge with his own lived experience of anxiety disorders.
The episodes aim to help listeners better understand how anxiety works, why certain fears and symptoms persist, and how recovery happens. Rather than promoting quick fixes, the podcast focuses on practical, evidence-based approaches to changing one’s relationship with anxiety, reducing fear, and gradually rebuilding confidence in everyday life. The tone is calm, relatable, reassuring, and educational.
Listen on Spotify or Apple
“This Jungian Life Podcast”
This Jungian Life is a podcast about depth psychology, dreams, relationships, emotions, and personal growth through the lens of Carl Jung’s ideas. The hosts explore topics such as shadow work, archetypes, anxiety, creativity, trauma, mythology, spirituality, identity, and the unconscious mind. A unique feature of the show is that each episode usually includes the analysis of a listener’s dream.
The podcast is hosted by Jungian analysts Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee, who trained together as Jungian psychoanalysts.
The tone is thoughtful, reflective, and psychologically deep, but also conversational and sometimes humorous. It tends to appeal to people interested in psychotherapy, symbolism, dreams, spirituality, and understanding human behavior at a deeper level.
Listen on Spotify or Apple
Infographic
Interoception is our ability to sense, interpret, and respond to what is happening inside the body. It plays an important role in emotional regulation, self-awareness, relationships, and nervous system regulation.
Trauma, chronic stress, attachment wounds, or environments where bodily experiences were dismissed can disrupt this awareness, leaving some clients disconnected from their bodies while others become hyper-aware of physical sensations linked to anxiety or fear.
Increasingly, somatic and neuroscience-informed approaches highlight how reconnecting with bodily sensations can support healing, resilience, agency, and emotional understanding.
In therapeutic practice, interoceptive work may involve helping clients notice sensations, breath, tension, movement, or emotional shifts in the body alongside verbal reflection. Supporting clients to build a safer relationship with their internal experience can deepen emotional literacy, self-trust, and regulation.
As therapists, how comfortable are we with working beyond cognition and inviting the body into the therapeutic space?
And what might change in our client work if we listened not only to the story being told, but also to how it is being held in the body?
Meme – For a Chuckle
Words to Ponder: Carl Jung
Carl Jung believed that the “shadow” represents the parts of ourselves we struggle to acknowledge: qualities, emotions, fears, desires, or vulnerabilities that remain outside of conscious awareness. When these unrecognized parts are projected onto others, we may judge, idealize, fear, blame, or react strongly to people in ways that reveal something unresolved within ourselves. Jung suggested that this process lies beneath many interpersonal and collective conflicts.
For us therapists, this quote can serve as a gentle reminder of the importance of self-reflection, supervision, and awareness of countertransference within the therapeutic relationship.
Which client dynamics evoke strong emotional reactions in us? What assumptions, judgments, or rescuer tendencies might emerge when our own shadow material is activated?
And how might deepening awareness of our internal responses support greater curiosity, humility, and compassion in the therapy room?
📚Our selected Blog Post: 9 Keys on Erotic Transference and Countertransference
Erotic transference and countertransference is a complex and completely normal part of therapy. This article takes a look at 9 key points for therapists working with erotic transference.
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