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    Developing the Person of the Therapist When Working with Couples
    (Springer, 2023) Oral, Sedef; Zeytinoglu-Saydam, Senem; Soylemez, Yudum; Akmehmet-Sekerler, Sibel; Aponte, Harry J.
    Whilst conducting couples therapy is a professional practice, couples' therapists (CTs) play an active role in the therapeutic process not only professionally but also personally. Despite the increase in research into the person of the therapist, few studies have examined the person of the therapist issues specific to CTs. In this study, we aimed to explore the experiences of CTs regarding the interaction of their personal and professional beliefs and experiences when working with couples. A qualitative design was used, based on constructivist grounded theory. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 17 CTs in romantic relationships and working with couples. Three main categories were co-constructed through qualitative analysis: accessing what was brought in through the self, engaging with what the couples bring, and embracing the personal and professional selves. Awareness of the person of the therapist and learning how to use themselves to relate, assess, and intervene with clients enable CTs to create a secure therapeutic presence. The findings have useful implications for clinicians, couples therapy training program frameworks, and couples therapy supervision.
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    Reciprocal impact between couple therapists' beliefs about coupledom, experiences in romantic relationships and experiences in couple therapy a qualitatıve study
    (İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2019) Oral, Sedef; Saydam, Fehime Senem Zeytinoğlu
    Although conducting couple therapy is a professional practice, it also involves very deeply personal processes that a therapist might pass through. The present study aimed to discover the experience of being a couple therapist considering how personal and professional beliefs and experiences of the couple therapists have reciprocal impact on each other. For the purposes of this study, couple therapists who are (a) currently working with couples in their caseloads, and (b) in a romantic relationship themselves were interviewed. Seventeen in-depth, semi structured interviews were conducted. The data was analysed in MAXQDA 2018.1 using grounded theory’s constant-comparative method. The emergent model revealed three categories including sub-categories for each other: Endeavouring to repair relationships, creating the presence of a therapist working with couples, and developing the presence of a person and a couple therapist, respectively. The findings suggest that being aware of person of the therapist and learning how to use themselves for relating, assessing, and intervening the couple clients create a more secure therapeutic presence. These results contribute to the literature by filling the practical and theoretical gap in couple therapy implications specifically for couple therapists in Turkey. Thus, findings are thought to be useful for frameworks of couple therapy training programs and couple therapy supervisions.