The two don’t actually sit there next to them, eating popcorn. But they frame the therapy segments, hinting at their own experiences and catching up with the participants afterwards to ask them how it’s going. It could be clunky or prurient, but their presence provides reassuring on-screen empathy and support for the people we’re following.
Matt Willis with Muna, who was bullied as a child (Photo: BBC/Twenty Twenty Productions Ltd)
According to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, around a third of British adults seek some kind of talking therapy during their lives. And I have no doubt that someone going through their own troubles, on seeing this show, might be encouraged to seek help for themselves. You can’t fault the public service remit at work here.
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Within minutes, Owen has asked a couple of well-placed questions that reveal there’s something deeper going on underneath. “I’m shocked that he got my number straight away,” she says.
Another participant, Muna, suffered serious bullying in childhood when her classmates found out she was adopted. As an adult, it’s left her scared to be alone in the house, which is problematic as her teenager prepares to leave for university. Psychotherapist Fatoumata Jatta begins the careful work of unpicking her early experiences of being ostracised by her peers.
Nicole spoke with therapist Owen O’Kane about her driving anxiety (Photo: BBC/Twenty Twenty Productions Ltd)And I can’t imagine how difficult it was to edit. The essence of the therapy room remains intact while the specific details of past trauma are kept to a minimum. The overall effect is a surface impression of the contributors’ inner lives, but it’s enough to tell the story.
Still, Change Your Mind, Change Your Life succeeds in demonstrating that the stories we tell ourselves might be covering a very different narrative underneath – you think your problems are down to one thing, but when you probe deeper something else may be the cause.
‘Change Your Mind, Change Your Life with Matt and Emma Willis’ continues next Tuesday at 10.40pm on BBC One
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