Billy Smith

I'm a BACP-registered counsellor with fifteen years of clinical experience, and much of my current work is defined by something I didn't expect to go through myself: burnout in 2020, hard enough that I had to properly rebuild. What came out of that rebuild is a therapeutic photography system I now use with clients, alongside talking therapy. The idea is simple: some things are hard to put into words straight away, but you can often photograph them before you can say them. I trained formally in this approach with Neil Gibson, and I use it particularly with people who are burned out, pre-burnout, or who've spent years pushing through rather than stopping. In practice, that means sessions that combine space to talk with small, practical exercises you can do between sessions using nothing...