Where can I find videos of therapy sessions?

January 24, 2011 9:39 PM

Does anyone know where I can find free, online videos of therapy sessions? I'm considering a career as a therapist and would like to study the therapeutic process. I'm in a community college at the moment and the video library isn't very extensive.
posted by oceanview to Education (4 answers total)

Have you checked with the psychology faculty and see if they have any training videos that they'd be willing to loan you for a couple hours to watch in the library? That's where I might start.
posted by so_gracefully at 10:14 PM on January 24, 2011

The Gloria Tapes are the standard answer to this question. They give you a sense of how some of the leaders in the field (Rogers, Perls, and Ellis) approached therapy. They are all available online. (Gloria Tapes previously on Metafilter)
posted by quiet coyote at 10:23 PM on January 24, 2011 [2 favorites]

The Gloria tapes are great. (I also would be interested in alternatives.) If you read that metafilter thread quiet coyote linked above you see a copyright issue raised. I watched the whole thing on youtube last week (report here), but I have tried to see them before in the past couple years and they have not all been constantly available. I do not know what the copyright issues are but they may not be on youtube when you look for them.

Also the title of the film is "Three approaches to psychotherapy."
posted by bukvich at 11:24 AM on January 25, 2011

Call your college's library and then call/email around to the libraries of the colleges and universities you can get to and ask (1) if they have access to Alexander Street's Counseling and Therapy in Video database, and (2) if they do and it's not your college, do they allow visitors to come to the library and access it in the library.
posted by telophase at 12:58 PM on January 25, 2011 [1 favorite]