20/07/2026
Last week in Cologne, presenting with Robert Elliot at PCE World’s therapy conference, we said something that surprised me with how much it resonated with the room:
💬Our therapeutic empathy is vital, but it doesn’t reach the marginalised pain our clients carry. We need situated empathy to bring the client’s context and the hurt from social injustice into the room.
For me this has always been more than a clinical challenge; it’s tangled up with my own experience of my marginality as a ND/q***r person too. 🙋♂️
The audience wasn’t all EFT specific, it was the wider person-centred and experiential therapy community. Afterwards, people came up and told me they’d been sensing the same gap in their own work, no matter their specialism or training background. Such excitement; the sense that the field is finally catching up to something a lot of us have quietly been feeling for a while! 🙌
Thank you to all the lovely people I met there. I look forward to the progress we’re making in our field.
Paper’s linked in my bio.
