‘My recovery is in English’: Clients' language choices in multilingual psychotherapy
Leila Verkerk,
Janet M. Fuller,
Mike Huiskes
et al.
Abstract:BackgroundPsychotherapy is constituted through language. Due to voluntary migration or forced mobility, many people do not have access to therapy in their first language (L1). How multilingual clients manage their languages in therapy is an issue many therapists need to address in their practice. Psychotherapy is about trauma, emotions and identity, and when a multilingual client chooses a particular language, it may influence their emotional expression, cause a cultural misunderstanding, and a distorted prese… Show more
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