The Heart of Therapy

This thoughtful and heartfelt book develops two main themes: the healing power of a compassionate understanding towards ourselves and others; and the ways boundaries are set within and around various areas of our lives.

Laura Barnett is an existential psychotherapist, with a strong interest in trauma, including transgenerational trauma. For 20 years she worked as a psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer in the NHS. Since retiring from the NHS, she has been working from home in Lewes.

1. Spatial Boundaries 2. Finding My Place: Spatial Boundaries 3. Time: Understanding, Compassion and Boundaries 4. My Place in Time 5. What Gets in the Way of Compassion, Understanding and Boundaries 6. Shame 7. Mothers: Challenges of Motherhood and Mothering 8. Mothers: Some Mother-child Stories of Narcissism, Absence and Trauma 9. Mothers: Some Mother-child Stories: Broken Bonds 10. Mothers: Maternal Feelings in the Therapeutic Relationship; Conclusion 11. Fathers 12. The Family Holy Book 13. Understanding 14. Heart