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Therapy Works

by The Times
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About the show

Bestselling author and psychotherapist, Julia Samuel, in partnership with The Times invites us into her therapy room as she talks to both known and unknown voices about some of life’s biggest challenges. Therapy Works is full of therapeutic conversations which may contain difficult emotions but those that can paradoxically bring light, in all its forms. Listeners will hear what the guests have learnt, failed to learn and how they have grown through their experience. At the end of each episode, Julia reflects on her session with her two psychotherapist daughters who will share their thoughts on the conversation. Subscribe to Therapy Works for weekly insights into emotional well-being Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    A listener shares the hidden reality of life after cancer. Three years after successful treatment for anal cancer, she is cancer-free but continues to live with chronic pain, changes to her body and the lasting physical and emotional…