ABSTRACT

Improving as a cognitive therapist requires self-reflection. Reflection is essential for flexible adaptation into an independent professional context (Sheikh, Milne, & MacGregor, 2007). Further, Bennett-Levy (2006) argued that self-reflection is the main way psychotherapists earn clinical wisdom and self-improvement. According to Bennett-Levy (2006), reflection requires focused attention and may be prompted by discomfort, curiosity, a supervisor’s questions, or formal learning.