Therapy with a Voice
A Cognitive Analytic Approach to the Inner Life of Talk and Conversations
Published on 2. March 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-1-80388-469-1 (ISBN)
Description
Voice is not just sound - it is relational, emotional and embodied. Our voices sit at the intersection between mind, brain, body and culture. Integrating core principles of Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) with dialogic, systemic and narrative approaches, this book positions the voice as central to psychotherapy. The authors show how, by using voice awareness alongside transference mapping and deploying the two with compassion and curiosity, readers can help clients to reclaim silenced or distorted voices and navigate the relational patterns of interaction that shape their own and other's lives. Accessible yet profound, and rich not only in theory but also in tools for everyday practice, Therapy with a Voice is an invitation to find, own and free our voices, and to discover their power in shaping human connection. It speaks to anyone for whom voice matters in talking, helping, managing and caring for others.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hove
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
579 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80388-469-1 (9781803884691)
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Persons
Steve Potter is a psychotherapist who is teaches and supervises Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) and its application to reflective practice in the UK and internationally. His central interest is in the co-creative process of relational mapping, and how it allows us to see and say things that otherwise might be too complex to hold in mind. He is co-editor of the International Journal of Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Relational Mental Health.
Lucy Cutler is a CAT and EMDR therapist, a chartered clinical psychologist and a CAT supervisor working in private practice in the Channel Islands. She has a varied background of working in Australia, the NHS and for the States of Jersey. She works in a relational way, to support people in better understanding their relationship with themselves and others, and in finding their voices in therapy.
Lucy Cutler is a CAT and EMDR therapist, a chartered clinical psychologist and a CAT supervisor working in private practice in the Channel Islands. She has a varied background of working in Australia, the NHS and for the States of Jersey. She works in a relational way, to support people in better understanding their relationship with themselves and others, and in finding their voices in therapy.
Content
Foreword
Introduction
PART ONE
1: Mapping our voices therapeutically
2: Writing for the voice therapeutically
3: Voice awareness exercises
PART TWO
4: The birth of voice
5: From babble to belonging
6: Schooling the voice
7: Voice under reconstruction
8: Voice, intimacy and desire
9: Voice and the emerging self
10: Adults among voices
11: New voices for old narratives
12: Looking for conversational love
References
Introduction
PART ONE
1: Mapping our voices therapeutically
2: Writing for the voice therapeutically
3: Voice awareness exercises
PART TWO
4: The birth of voice
5: From babble to belonging
6: Schooling the voice
7: Voice under reconstruction
8: Voice, intimacy and desire
9: Voice and the emerging self
10: Adults among voices
11: New voices for old narratives
12: Looking for conversational love
References