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 …
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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 …
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, …
Close to Home
The moment all clinicians know will happen before they set foot in the field is waited on with baited breathe. It doesn’t matter what type of therapist you are counselor, clinician , or psychiatrist, is all irrelevant. The moment will come when your door opens and you are slapped in the face with familiarity. …
Resets
If you have any experience in this field you’re probably well acquainted with the concept of self-care. In this field it’s as critical theory, technique and practice. Yes, you work with people, yes it can be an emotionally demanding job, yes burnout is possible for everyone….but as therapists we experience second-hand trauma often. …
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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