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'Almost like a buzzing of energy - I could feel my blood moving, a warmth spreading through my torso. A feeling of being very deeply anchored in the moment. An intense moment of contact and relatedness.'
That moment where you look at one another with tears in your eyes. Where you feel you understand each other completely. You feel a bodily resonance, the aliveness of your blood, and there is a sense of expansion as you experience this moment of deep connection. What is happening in our minds and bodies during these moments of profound relatedness? How do we make sense of them - and what meaning do they hold for us?
This book explores these moments of profound contact between client and therapist: experiences that feel, in their intensity and intimacy, like moments of love. Drawing on decades of psychotherapy and counselling literature, Emma Swales examines how these experiences have been understood, named, and navigated across the helping professions.
Written for qualified and trainee counsellors, psychotherapists, supervisors, and other helping professionals whose work draws on the therapeutic relationship, this book will help readers recognise, understand, and respond to these moments in an informed and ethical way - using them to offer genuinely healing experiences and deepen the bonds that make change possible.
A compelling exploration of a fundamentally human experience.
'This should be essential reading for student practitioners, for those working in the therapy professions, for supervisors and for those training the next generation of practitioners. It's so important that our professions can fluently talk about moments of love. A brilliant book, buy it!'
Dr Lynne Gabriel OBE, Professor of Counselling & Mental Health, York St John University; President, British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
'I sincerely hope this book will be required reading on all therapy training courses. Its subtitle is 'embodied attunement in the therapeutic relationship', but its scope is far wider and can apply to all our relationships... an important contribution to the therapeutic literature.'
Robin Shohet, trainer and author of several books including In Love with Supervision
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