My research develops Therapeutic Autoethnography — a practice-based methodology that engages the therapist as researcher within the field of the therapy situation, built on the conviction that clinical knowledge is transmitted through story.
Through neuroscience, a reinterpretation of Genesis, and three clinical stories, this book argues that shame is not pathology to eliminate but the neural infrastructure of consciousness itself.
Forthcoming 2026A framework for understanding how genuine connection emerges from embracing individuality — integrating Gestalt therapy principles with cross-cultural perspectives.
Read more →A psychotherapy case study using Therapeutic Autoethnography, recounting the experience of working with an Afghan asylum seeker through a translator. The method makes palpable the atmosphere of an otherwise linguistically challenging therapeutic situation.
View at Taylor & Francis →A case study of a client diagnosed with Major Depression and Atypical Anorexia Nervosa, written using Therapeutic Autoethnography. Story and theory are interwoven to illuminate how Friedlaender's philosophy of Creative Indifference — the centering in the here-and-now, the fertile void, the zero point — applies in clinical practice.
An introduction to Therapeutic Autoethnography as a qualitative research method — an aesthetic inquiry into the psychotherapy process. Demonstrates the method through a case study of an online Gestalt therapy session with a male client diagnosed with depression and borderline personality disorder.
Introduces the Helbig Method of Dialogue Analysis (HELDA) — a method for micro-analysing dialogical turns within the therapeutic session, founded on four pillars concerning implicit action, relational patterns, intersubjective process, and the researcher's phenomenological involvement.
Developed a practice-based research methodology that positions the therapist as researcher-autoethnographer within the field of the therapy situation. The method draws on the conviction that clinical knowledge is transmitted through story — as healers have always done for their apprentices.
Analysis of Bob Resnick's video-recorded Gestalt therapy session using a novel method of dialogue analysis, producing quantified graphical representations of the developing therapeutic relationship.