The Talking Cave
Therapy With Josh Harvey
About Josh
I’m Josh. I’m a psychotherapist, a husband and a dad.
Before this, I worked as a painter and decorator. For seven years, I was also a firefighter.
So no, I didn’t grow up thinking I’d become a psychotherapist. Life took me somewhere else first.
Work, money, relationships, family, responsibility. These have always been part of my life and the lives of the people around me.
I’ve struggled too. I’ve kept things to myself and tried to be the person I thought I was supposed to be.
Therapy changed the course of my life.
It also left me wondering why something that mattered so much to me could feel so far removed from the lives of people I knew.
That’s part of why I created The Talking Cave.
I wanted to offer professional therapy that felt approachable.
Somewhere you could speak in your own words, without feeling you had to become a different kind of person to belong there.
What Interests Me In This Work
I’m particularly interested in shame, relationships and the expectations we carry about who we should be.
That includes the pressure on men to be strong, self-sufficient and always “fine”, and the experiences of people who’ve learnt to keep difficult things to themselves.
I’m curious about how those expectations shape our lives, what they cost us and what happens when we begin to question them.
I live in Nottinghamshire with my family.
I have responsibilities, get things wrong and sometimes wonder whether I’m doing any of it particularly well.
I bring my training, experience and attention to our work. You bring your knowledge of your own life.
We work from there, together.
Outside The Therapy Room
I’m a qualified humanistic and integrative psychotherapist. I trained at Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute in partnership with Staffordshire University, and I’m a registered member of the BACP (MBACP).
My training gives me different ways of working, but the relationship we build matters most to me. I want you to feel listened to, taken seriously and able to tell me what’s actually going on.
During my clinical training, I worked with people dealing with anxiety, low mood, addiction, relationship difficulties, grief, shame, anger and emotional distress.
My dissertation explored shame in men, the ways we learn to keep our guard up, and how the relationship in therapy can help us begin to lower it. That remains a particular interest in my work.
I have regular supervision and keep developing my skills and knowledge through ongoing professional development.
Being someone you can talk to matters to me. So does doing the work properly.