Minimum standards set out by the European Association of Psychotherapy state that psychotherapists must experience 250 hours of psychotherapy themselves. Photograph: Viktoriya Skorikova/Getty Images

An internal document has highlighted why the regulator for psychotherapy overruled a recommendation to include mandatory personal therapy in new standards for the sector. “Potential wider implications for other professions” and financial burden on students were the main reasons.

In July Coru, the regulator for

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