Whitestone Therapy

  On Silence... (27.10.25) 27 October 2025 | 2025 posts On 8th October I wrote:   “Therapy ought to be responsive to the needs of the individual in front of us, rather than been treated as a sort of moral ‘framework’ into which we squeeze our clients because we know best and are thoroughly enlightened.  This may well lead to poor therapeutic experiences for clients.”    Therapists may unintentionally assume that a client's background, culture, ethnicity, or sexuality inherently leads to difficult or unfair experiences, and the role of the therapist is more akin to an investigator - to identify systemic inequities and draw them out of the client.   I also wrote that...  "to attach any of this worldview to the individual before you in therapy (victim or villain) may be deeply unhelpful and, dare I say it, patronising and racist."   I warned of the risks of making assumptions about clients based on immutable traits like ethnicity, a practice rooted i...

  "Whiteness" and the BACP... (8.10.25) 8 October 2025 | 2025 posts On the BACP President's 'Whiteness' column, and what it tells us about ideological capture in therapy  Illness has been a constant feature of the last two months. I’ve finally accepted the doctor’s advice: total rest for a few weeks to recover. I am sorry about it and am deeply grateful to my wonderful family, and to many clients for their understanding.    I’d actually hoped for some peace and quiet. But then the latest THERAPY TODAY magazine flopped on to the doormat last week….  In recent blogs, I’ve criticised the BACP direction of travel - based on my own experiences, feedback from colleagues including BACP ‘insiders’, and from other sources. In August, I wrote about BACP President Lynne Gabriel’s odd update video to BACP members following the removal of the BACP chair. In a second blog , I wondered if I was being too harsh; maybe her strange metaphors signalled a real change (“turning t...