Autoethnography and Therapy Writing on the Move

In this article, migration as a major life “transition” is examined using autoethnographic vignettes. The methodological dominance of objectivist and positivist approaches to research in counseling and psychotherapy is critiqued alongside “stages” theories of the experience of transition and loss. Claims for expressive and reflective writing as an active and creative form of therapy, akin to music, art, and drama therapy, are examined within a feminist tradition of “confessional writing.”