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Psychotherapy research has demonstrated that the psychotherapist's personal life is relevant to their professional capacity and development. However, this phenomenon remains poorly understood, especially in the context of a global disaster such as COVID-19. Additionally, the embodied voices of psychotherapists are largely disenfranchised as they pertain to psychotherapists’ lived experiences of personal crises. Labelled a pandemic in March 2020, the global disaster of COVID-19 had devastating effects, which extended beyond physical pathology. The various viral mitigation measures, such as lockdowns and other social restrictions, caused profound unnatural social disruption to daily life worldwide. The upheaval impacted psychotherapists’ personal lives, subsequently placing them in an invidious, vulnerable position with potential implications for their professional long-term development. This thesis explored the private life of a South African psychotherapist in private practice during the COVID-19 crisis. It positioned the psychotherapist within the culture of professional peers, including the pervasive, unrealistic personas, grand narratives, myths and implicit expectations inherent within that culture. Underpinned by a constructionist/interpretivist epistemology, the researcher adopted a blended evocative-analytical autoethnography research strategy. This research genre allowed for the construction of extensive evocative-analytical narrative vignettes coupled with self-reflections of the researcher. The vignettes largely comprised a dialogue between the researcher and a life-long friend, capturing a specific personal crisis he was confronted with the COVID-19 disaster. Subsequently, using narrative analysis, the vignettes were analysed to provide a concise, holistic theoretical framework of the private experiences of a psychotherapist during COVID-19. Comprising four domains, namely social, Psychotherapy research has demonstrated that the psychotherapist's personal life is relevant to their professional capacity and development. However, this phenomenon remains poorly understood, especially in the context of a global disaster such as COVID-19. Additionally, the embodied voices of psychotherapists are largely disenfranchised as they pertain to psychotherapists’ lived experiences of personal crises. Labelled a pandemic in March 2020, the global disaster of COVID-19 had devastating effects, which extended beyond physical pathology. The various viral mitigation measures, such as lockdowns and other social restrictions, caused profound unnatural social disruption to daily life worldwide. The upheaval impacted psychotherapists’ personal lives, subsequently placing them in an invidious, vulnerable position with potential implications for their professional long-term development. This thesis explored the private life of a South African psychotherapist in private practice during the COVID-19 crisis. It positioned the psychotherapist within the culture of professional peers, including the pervasive, unrealistic personas, grand narratives, myths and implicit expectations inherent within that culture. Underpinned by a constructionist/interpretivist epistemology, the researcher adopted a blended evocative-analytical autoethnography research strategy. This research genre allowed for the construction of extensive evocative-analytical narrative vignettes coupled with self-reflections of the researcher. The vignettes largely comprised a dialogue between the researcher and a life-long friend, capturing a specific personal crisis he was confronted with the COVID-19 disaster. Subsequently, using narrative analysis, the vignettes were analysed to provide a concise, holistic theoretical framework of the private experiences of a psychotherapist during COVID-19. Comprising four domains, namely social, psychological-emotional, existential, and physical, this framework may serve as a useful theory for understanding psychotherapists’ personal experiences in other crises. Additionally, a prospective psychotherapist storytelling supervision group was designed as a potential means by which the theoretical framework can be applied in real-world settings for professional psychotherapists. Underpinned by two current theoretical models, The Psychotherapist Cyclical Model of Development and Stagnation(Rønnestad & Skovholt., 2013) and the Person-of-the-Therapist Training Model(Aponte, 2016), this supervision group offers a substantive means in which the researcher’s proposed theoretical framework can be meaningfully implemented to assist practising psychotherapists navigate their personal circumstances, including both personal and collective crises.