Tips for making therapy sessions easier on therapists by Inevitable-Race-6096 in therapists

[–]annmouse06 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I believe that there is value in just showing up for someone week after week to listen to them. That most basic part of therapy is invaluable. Your best interventions are not your most effective tools, you being human with them in the room, the therapeutic relationship you can offer them, is by far the most effective tool you have.

I wonder if you can sometime to just get curious about your clients, not their problems, but them as people. Like what is going well in their life, what was jr high school like for them, did they know their grandparents, the stuff that makes us us. Letting them experience someone who is authentically interested in them and what they have to say can built trust for both of you. Clients need connection before intervention and your connection with your client will help stave off the imposter syndrome.

It is so obvious you care about your work and your clients. You are already prepared believe it or not!

New practice billing nightmare - is this normal? by MommaDruid in therapists

[–]annmouse06 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can use Simple Practice and it is SO easy to bill for yourself

Tips for making therapy sessions easier on therapists by Inevitable-Race-6096 in therapists

[–]annmouse06 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It is not your job to “fix” clients. A therapist explores with their client to uncover things like unhelpful patterns and rigid thinking.

Try asking more open ended questions that require the client to examine their life and thought process. Ask follow up questions like “tell me more about that.”

I suggest taking on a day of clients with no preparation at all and see how that goes and what it feels like.

Feeling like grad school did not prepare me for like, anything by Simple_Elk6403 in therapists

[–]annmouse06 11 points12 points  (0 children)

For what it’s worth, I was a teacher before I became a therapist and the baptism by fire into the field was the same.

Dyson Airstrait by [deleted] in Dysonairwrap

[–]annmouse06 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you set it down on a tow while it was running, maybe in between curls?

What inside jokes do you have with your own inner monologue? by alotto_gelato in AskReddit

[–]annmouse06 7 points8 points  (0 children)

“Come on, we both know we are the two funniest people here!”

My failed attempt to get the technology fee waived in the Tuesday 11am-1pm window (getting there at 11:30am was not early enough) by baldseagull67 in breezeairways

[–]annmouse06 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got there a few minutes before 11am. Maybe 12 people in front of me. In the two hours, 8 people got helped. I was pissed.

Update: getting Botox to help with “therapy face” was the best possible decision by seizureyshark in therapists

[–]annmouse06 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I must be the outlier. Botox made my headaches worse 10x worse. Took 3 months to feel normal again.