My goal for this month is that you are able to navigate the system which exists, including the system of assessing and diagnosing with the DSM. I also hope you’re able to critically think about it, know its flaws and shortcomings, and be able to discern when it’s a help or hindrance for your client.
Our work is incredibly vulnerable. With this comes the opportunity for connection and deep, meaningful healing (for ourselves and others); but it also can bring up old wounds, self-criticism/judging, the risk of emotional exposure and everything else. The antidote? Self-compassion.
It’s your turn to reflect on how well you are eliciting feedback, and what your own beliefs are with it.
You know, YOU have a huge effect on the outcomes your clients experience. Let’s look at the factors that put the odds in your favor, including figuring out who you work best with, and improving your own deliberate practice.
How do you learn about oppression, privilege and power? What are your go-to resources? I hope you’ll come to group ready to share at least a blurb from a favorite resource.
Congruence is often something that is socialized out of us starting in middle school (or sooner), and definitely in grad school. So it’s wonderful to know that practicing it makes us better at what we do, and make our client’s outcomes much more achievable. It’s an invitation, permission, to show up more fully as our selves as it relates to and serves the client.
We’re shaking up how we do our consultation work. Read on for a bit more guidance.
What kind of atmosphere do you help create for your client? Let’s brush up on this together.
Two things I want to know: how do *you* define therapeutic alliance? And how do you measure the quality of alliance/relationship you have with each client?
Accurate empathy is one of the common factors. Let’s discuss how to use it, when to use it and how to improve our delivery of it.
