The embodied listener: a dyadic case study of how therapist and patient reflect on the significance of therapist's personal presence for the therapeutic change process.

: There is a need to understand more of the dyadic processes in therapy and how the therapist's are experienced and reflected upon by both patient and therapist. The aim of this dyadic case study was to investigate how the therapist's personal presence was perceived by the patient and the therapist as contributing to change.: From a larger project on collaborative actions between patient and therapist, a dyadic case involving in-depth interviews of the therapist and patient was selected to examine the research question.

"It's both a strength and a drawback." How therapists' personal qualities are experienced in their professional work.

The aim of this study was to gain knowledge about how the integration of personal and professional experiences affects therapeutic work. : Therapists ( = 14) who had been recommended by their leaders at their individual workplaces were interviewed twice with semi-structured qualitative interviews, which were then subjected to thematic and Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. All the therapists in the sample described their personal qualities as an experienced tension between their personal strengths and vulnerabilities in the therapeutic setting.