Therapy Tales is a series of standalone cartoons about the experience of therapy, examining the dynamics and minutiae of therapist-client interaction.
Topics range from the serious to the downright surreal with a cast of creatures and running gags who represent the main characters’ projections and dysfunctions.
I am not a therapist, am not training to be a therapist and I am not in therapy. I just write cartoons about it.
Other cartooning and illustration work can be found here, including cartoons published in magazines and academic textbooks.
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Other places Therapy Tales has appeared both on and offline:
- UKCP Journal Autumn 2011 [pdf]
- Talking vs processing in Trauma Therapy with Dr Kathleen Young (June 2011)
- Journalling in Therapy (Psychology Today) with Ryan Howes (Jan 2011)
- Therapists and their pet phrases (Psychology Today) by Ryan Howes
- TILT Magazine Issue 1 (Sept 2010)
- TILT Magazine Issue 2 (Nov 2010)
- TILT Magazine Issue 3 (Jan 2011)
- TILT Magazine Issue 4 (Mar 2011)
- TILT Magazine Issue 5 (May 2011)
- TILT Magazine Issue 6 (July 2011)
- TILT Magazine Issue 7 (Sept 2011)
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CONTACT ME: caroll[dot]lewis[dot]wg[at]gmail[dot]com.








Lilian
/ June 6, 2012Hey there. I nominated your blog for the One Lovely Blog Award! Love your cartoon by the way
Details here – http://illustratedramblings.wordpress.com/2012/06/06/i-like-bath-time-and-blog-awards-to/
WG
/ June 6, 2012Thank you
the secret keeper
/ June 12, 2012I have nominated you for The Sunshine Award. Check it out here http://thesecretkeeper.net/2012/06/12/the-sunshine-award-nomination/ . I hope you like it. “the secret keeper” aka jennifer.
i do therapy, am in therapy and thoroughly enjoy your cartoons and blog posts. thank you. jen
WG
/ June 12, 2012Aww thanks Jen! lovely to hear from you and thanks for the award nomination!
Bourbon
/ July 18, 2012http://crazyinthecoconut.co.uk/2012/07/18/reader-appreciation-awardsunshine-award/ <— I've nominated you for the sunshine award
WG
/ July 19, 2012thanks
counsellingtutors
/ January 18, 2013This site cheers me up no end, it’s better than CBT
WG
/ May 18, 2013“better than CBT” I might put that on the book’s dust cover
healing wanderer
/ April 16, 2013Very witty blog and the themes does hit a chord. Thanks to my narcissitically disordered mother, I have been in therapy for years.
The feeling that my presence was abundantly redundant during those sessions was overwhelming, with my worries added that my sleepy therapist’s head would actually drop onto the table.
WG
/ May 18, 2013Thanks for reading and commenting. I’ve had a lot of people tell me their therapists *have* actually fallen asleep in session.. and read plenty of therapist survey data to confirm this.
Eli
/ June 16, 2013I love your stuff!! Keep it up!
WG
/ June 16, 2013Thanks! you too