Sofie Bager-Charleson

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About Sofie Bager-Charleson

Dr Sofie Bager-Charleson works as Senior Fellow at the Metanoia Institute. She is also Honorary Research Fellow at City University, London. She chairs the research group Therapists as Research-informed Practitioners (TRP) and co-founded the Metanoia Research Academy in 2017. Sofie has published widely in the field of research methodology including academic articles and 8 text-books like Supporting Research (2022), Enjoying Research in counselling and psychotherapy (Palgrave 2020) and Practice-based Research in Therapy: A Reflexive Approach (Sage, 2014). She has guest edited special issues for the CPR journal in Mixed methods (2021), ’Therapists and Knowledge’ (2018, 2019) and Research Supervision (2025). She specialises on research methodology and professional development of psychotherapists. Sofie is UKCP and BACP registered psychotherapist and supervisor, and holds a PhD from Lund University in Sweden about attachment issues within families and reflective practice amongst teachers. Fields of special interest: • Research methodology. Qualitative and mixed methods research • Professional Development in Psychotherapy; Research training, reflexivity, reflective practice and personal development Current research: • Research supervision • Psychotherapists and Academic writing