ABSTRACT
In some respects, a family therapist (like any psychotherapist) can be considered a wounded healer. The choice to become a therapist is in part based on what we have been through in our families of origin, in terms of attachment, losses, fears, conflicts, and so on. In our present functioning as a therapist sometimes difficult issues from our past can pop up and make our work with families more challenging.
Therefore, it makes sense that a family therapist would sometimes retrospectively reflect on his/her functioning in his/her family of origin, to try to understand how his/her past might play a role in the impasses and challenges that he/she is confronted with in the therapeutic work with families.
