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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

New podcast episode! With thanks to @josephineh.bsky.social for the conversation. I hope it is useful to therapists, supervisors and clients who might be concerned or curious about Harm in Therapy. click here to listen: player.captivate.fm/episode/7b61...

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Navigating Harm in Therapy: Insights from Erin Stevens

Quickly and easily listen to Good Enough Counsellors for free!

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Love these awards. Brilliantly done.

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Thanks Joy. I'll not be there forever, so i hope those thoughts will be back at some point, but i guess it is time to see what can be done from the inside.

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Yeah I agree with you. There is something about being inattentive to power that pervades a lot of what is happening just now. Maybe they would say they need to check the successful candidates or get agreements in place or something, but it used to be voted AND announced at AGM 🤷‍♀️

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I think it will be announced by email in the ebulletin later this month.

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Yeah i saw someone do that then delete it. It seems to me quite silly to have this period of silence. Much better the way they used to do it.

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

BACP have put candidates in a position where we're not supposed to disclose the result till they announce it later this month 🫠

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Counsellors' Staffroom hosted a Q&A event for the BACP election with candidates Matt Cormack and me. It's now available to view here youtu.be/n5TpemRbyrs?... Voting closes 15th August!

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Counsellors Staffroom: Meet BACP Board Candidates 2025 Erin Stevens and Matt Cormack

YouTube video by Erin Stevens - Harm in Therapy

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drmabel.bsky.social @drmabel.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Meowslow's hierarchy of needs

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

You can also meet me and fellow candidate Matt Cormack at the Counsellors’ Staffroom Q&A on Friday 18th July at 2.30pm. Free tickets here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bacp-board...

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BACP Board Elections: Meet candidates Erin & Matt (Live Q&A)

Ask questions, share reflections, and meet BACP board candidates Erin & Mat in this open Zoom session

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

BACP Trustee voting is open! if you are a BACP member, please check your emails and cast your votes! Remember you can email me on erinstevens4bacpboard@gmail.com if you have any questions for me.

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Thanks so much. That's a really important facet of disability justice that therapists and the whole profession need to attend to.

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I'm standing for the BACP board! Voting is 15th July - 15th August so if you are a BACP member, you can look for an email from Mi Voice with a link to vote around then. I'm interested in anti-oppressive practice & ethics and I'll be answering questions sent to erinstevens4bacpboard@gmail.com

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

This is such a great point, thank you so much for it.

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Introducing the Therapy Harm Resistance Project: a conversation with Natalie Russ is now available on YouTube! youtu.be/Ne1NX48UoKk

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The Harm in Therapy Series: Introducing the Therapy Harm Resistance Project

YouTube video by Erin Stevens - Harm in Therapy

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

30th April I'm hosting a 1 hour webinar on therapy therapy, open to everyone whether client, therapist or just interested. I'll overview the fundamentals of recognising harm, leaving harmful therapy, complaints (UK) and seeking support. Tickets by donation. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-thera...

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When Therapy Causes Harm: A Webinar for anyone interested in Therapy Harm

A one hour webinar including Q&A with Erin Stevens - a therapist working with clients who have been harmed and a survivor of therapy harm.

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I know, it's feels like BACP have become much more open to Harm in Therapy and much more open to people like me in the last year or so. It's promising.

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The recording of the Harm in Therapy for Queer Autistic Therapists workshop with me and Sonny Hallett @scrappapertiger.bsky.social , which was sold out for live attendance, is now available for purchase! Access here: www.erinstevens.co.uk/workshop-rec...

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Workshop Recordings | Erin Stevens

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I've been really pleased to hear from people who found this landing on their doorstep today. Finally, conversations about harm are becoming mainstream in the profession. I was grateful to be invited to participate in this issue & the corresponding podcast. If you are a BACP member check it out. 🙂

Front cover of April 2025 Therapy Today magazine. When therapy causes harm. Image of a therapist standing on a client's toe, which i take to be metaphorical.

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

🙏 totally agree, survivor advocacy is a huge part of therapy harm activism. @sophieblackthorn.bsky.social is a brilliant activist survivor and writer, in case you don't know her. I'm really getting a sense of solidarity and community finally becoming more visible 🔥

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

In PCA terms, for me therapeutic neutrality is UPR in action. It's the knowledge that my client isn't 'bad', 'wrong' or 'broken', they don't need me to change them, or to tell them what to do. It's about power. But it isn't about denying the impact of who we are or how we show up in the room.

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

My long-term therapist once said to me that I always get myself to where I need to be. He didn't create my ability to make choices, he simply made space for me to see that I can. It was this non-possessiveness, this therapeutic neutrality, that helped me develop my self-trust.

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

By this I mean that I do not operate from wishes or desires for my clients. I don't have desired outcomes for them, and I prize their self-determination. I am not meeting a client to impose my own conditions of worth on them, I don't know what is best for someone else.

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

and any attempt at neutrality is inherently a non-neutral act. In short, complete neutrality is a paradoxical notion and impossible in practice. Yet, I view therapeutic neutrality as an important part of my philosophy of therapeutic practice. In reality, I think TN describes non-possessive practice

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Therapeutic neutrality. Let's talk about what it is and what it isn't. We are inherently non-neutral. We bring contexts, some of which will be explicit, some of which are implicit, all of which influence how we show up in the world and in the room. Any attempt at apoliticism is inherently political

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I'm doing the crystal maze experience for my 40th birthday, fulfilling a lifelong ambition to collect tickets in the crystal dome.

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Workshop 2 in the Harm in Therapy Series - "Rupture and Repair: The Fundamentals" is now available to buy from my website. Keep an eye on this page as more Harm in Therapy resources and CPD are added! www.erinstevens.co.uk/workshop-recordings

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Workshop Recordings | Erin Stevens

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

No prob I'll aim to make the resources available on my website afterwards :)

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Hi I'm editing it at the moment to include more info so I can't send it just yet. I don't know if you're coming to my webinar on therapy harm but I'm planning to show the updated version then www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-thera...

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When Therapy Causes Harm: A Webinar for anyone interested in Therapy Harm

A one hour webinar including Q&A with Erin Stevens - a therapist working with clients who have been harmed and a survivor of therapy harm.

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

If you are on Instagram and you are interested in harm in therapy, Natalie Russ is an important follow. This is an important fact for anyone working with harmed clients or involved in complaints processes.

Natalie Russ account saying 'a quick reminder for therapists. There is nothing that makes therapists inherently more credible than clients. If you tend to assume that the therapist's accounting of what transacted in the therapy is more reliable than the client's, that needs to be examined. None of our schooling or training should earn us this kind of default believability. Agree or disagree? Talking about therapy harm @natalierusspsyd

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I'm offering additional no cost tickets for tomorrow night's 2 hour workshop Rupture and Repair: The Fundamentals. 6-8pm. Due to the change in date, some of the attendees who had no cost tickets are unable to attend. Please DM me if you are a therapist or trainee and would like to come.

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Thanks to UKCP members for voting a resounding NO to far right politics.

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I'm listening to a really interesting webinar by Sally Openshaw about sexual boundaries in therapy. She's currently talking about how things might go wrong, noting the ways it might be pushed into the shadows and how boundary breaches escalate.

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Erin Stevens @aclientfirst.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This project is an important part of addressing harm in therapy globally, and I'm delighted she has agreed to talk about the project as part of the Harm in Therapy Series.

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