What in the Actual Fuck

Not to brag, but when I do things, I do them big. So it should come as no surprise that my first bad day was 1 that outdid even itself, leaving me to wonder what client do I even talk about.   I’ve been treating two sisters for about 4 months and they are adorable …

The lawyer & The Therapist

Protecting the best interest of a child can include so many, but sometimes people who don’t want to have anything to fucking do with each other must unite for the betterment of someone else. Sometimes those are forces that are historicaly oppositional ,sometimes they personally don’t like each other and other times it’s all about …

Healing

So, with almost a year in the field doing clinical work I have noticed some things about people in the healing process. Bare in mind they are of different backgrounds, demographics and managing different illnesses or disorders and overcoming different traumas or set backs. They also have different aspects to their process that is as …

Cry a Fucking River

Today I had my first appointment with a 6 year old girl. She is quiet, curious and sickly. She is sickly from the medications she’s on to treat the STD she got when her mother’s boyfriend raped her. By the end of the session I was rewarded with a smile. She walked out the door …

The fuck

It has finally happened and the fuckery has reared it’s oblong shaped head. Everyone fucks up, everyone has an off day and everyone rests comfortably knowing they will indeed make a mistake. It wasn’t a colossal mistake, it wasn’t one that had dire consequences. Nobody was limping off the field or suffering a monumental breakdown. …

Respite

The past few weeks have been constant motion of fast decisions, errands, work and feeling like I’ve been on call with no breaks. So much so, that when every demand met and responsibility taken care of the follow week seemed like it would be a cake walk.   How wrong I was. The slower pacer …

Be sure to Breathe

The past few weeks have been an absolute shit show for me. The amount of stress, stressor, obligations, have too and tasks to check off of my too do list seemed like a never ending stream of shit.   I had finals, evaluations , and end of term bullshit for school. I had treatment plans, …

When The Professor is Shit

It’s bound to happen at some point in your higher education. Sure, there will be professors that you just don’t like. Maybe your personalities clash, maybe you don’t like their style, maybe a single incident will just leave a bad taste in your mouth. It’s par for the course. But the day will come when …

Why I hate doing an intake

  Intakes are par for the course and by the time you begin working in the theraputic process you should be very comfortable with it. But, some of us hate the process For those unfamiliar, a psychiatric assessment and intake are related but distinctly different processes in the field. As discussed last week, an assessment …

Assessments

….ahh, assessments the bane of existence to clinicians and client alike. They are tedious, time consuming where at best the questions feel irrelevant and repetitive and at worst invasive and uncomfortable. The only thing that’s worse than an assessment is having any answer raise the flag for another one.    It seems there’s no shortages …

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