What does it really mean to trust what your clients tell you — especially when their experiences challenge what you’ve been taught, or don’t fit into traditional therapy frameworks?

In this episode, I’m joined by pluralistic therapist, trainer, and writer Nicola Blunden to explore how power, voice, and identity can shape conversations — and why developing an awareness of epistemic injustice matters for all of us.

We talk about:

• what epistemic injustice is — and how it can show up in therapy
• the impact of therapist assumptions around diagnosis and identity
• how to co-create therapy with clients who experience themselves as having multiple parts (sometimes diagnosed as Dissociative Identity Disorder)
• the fear therapists can feel about “getting it wrong”
• and how to begin doing the work without retreating into guilt or defensiveness

Nicola also shares reflections from her upcoming book around co-producing knowledge in pluralistic therapy, and invites us to consider what it means to work with clients — not over them.

This is a rich and thought-provoking conversation about power, trust, and staying open to what clients know about themselves.

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