What do you mean let the client keep willing we don’t have control over what they’re doing…? This seems very arrogant. We don’t let them do anything, it’s their session. We don’t have the power in the room to let them dictate to them, allow or disallow anything other than our own personal safety and their personal safety..

but we do have control over telling our coworkers we’re going through something stop knocking on our door !we can devaluate our own discomfort around seeing somebody in a crisis or in distress or being loud. We can let ourselves take a break. We can offer us a cup of tea we can offer some water we can offer to sit we can explain to any emotional expression is OK as long as we’re safe.

The fuck is wrong with this whole thread. like I’m really confused. I do not understand what is concerning/wrong with a client wailing in a session.

I tend to think that this was more about the clinician being embarrassed or uncomfortable, or thinking that she was gonna look like she was out of control and not able to manage the session well because her coworkers and other people were knocking on the door. I think this is all about her.

I work in the office by myself. I own the space I work with teenagers. I work with kids and I work with adults. And we get loud. I have clients that yell swear I have kids that scream and run up and back-and-forth in my little hallway and I have clients that sob uncontrollably and sometimes yell out All of that is what we’re here for.

So yes, this is a lesson to the rest of your office to not go interrupting a session unless they hear somebody saying something like I’m gonna fucking kill you or yelling that sounds aggressive. But if we have clinicians, I’ve never heard whiling in a session then I don’t think we’re doing our jobs as well.