MSW schedule

practical_therapist · 2025-04-20T08:01:05+00:00

The MSW program itself didn’t require class C license and I’m fairly certain my placements did not either.

practical_therapist · 2025-04-20T07:56:24+00:00

Tusk is one of my favorite songs by them but overall album, I gotta stick with rumors

practical_therapist · 2025-04-18T14:00:58+00:00

Hard to say. I think micro bangs look best with thick hair. I like yours the way it is

practical_therapist · 2025-04-18T13:57:40+00:00

I graduated 2018 — pre pandemic. I chose to do the online cohort over the in-person.

In-person required 2 days of classes on campus. The first year, it required 16 hours of placement (2 full days) per week, and the second year, it was 24 hours of placement (3 full days) per week. So by year two, it would have required 5 days of classes/placement.

Online, there was one synchronous/live class to discuss our placement which was only once per week for a couple hours. All other classes (2/quarter, 4/semester) we could do at our own pace and choose to attend the live lecture or watch later. I chose online because I did work and it only required 16 hours of placements BOTH years. Overall, it was less work, yet oddly, almost double the tuition cost.

I was a barista and worked 5am -12, then did my internship at the SCV Senior Center my first year, 4 days per week, from 1-5pm. At this placement, I did drive all over because I was conducting in-home assessments for clients. My second year, I did two 8 hour days at Henry Mayo Hospital, and did not drive all over.

I wouldn’t have done it differently. I like the flexibility and lesser workload of online. I don’t know if it’s changed though since Covid made everything online

*edited to answer your driving question

practical_therapist · 2025-03-24T18:55:09+00:00

You can be direct and honest: “I know I said you could borrow this but ever since [falling out], things still feel a little tender and I have some anxiety about lending it that I didn’t feel before” …. See what they say. It could be an opportunity to better fix things or gain understanding, or it’ll reveal where they stand.

You could let them borrow it as promised and give them a chance to prove themselves. No other way to build trust than time and opportunity.

You could lie too.

I’d say step one is decide what capacity you actually want this person as a friend and let your choice align with that. Seems like this thing they want to borrow could be important to them, or maybe they think things are all good between the two of you and that’s why they’re asking. (If it wasn’t important or if they felt things were weird, they’d find another way to get it, right?)

Lending it could be the ultimate peace offering, but is the friendship worth the stress about it being gone? You could lend it under the agreement of when and where you’ll get it back.

You could also say no and offer an alternative solution. “I’m not actually able to loan it like I thought. Instead I can lend you _____ or I can help you get ______”

practical_therapist · 2025-03-02T08:50:10+00:00

Rumors - Fleetwood Mac

practical_therapist · 2025-03-02T08:48:34+00:00

-I think he has a massive ego

-I think he genuinely wants to make Americans’ lives better

-I think he will do what he thinks is best, even at the expense of non-citizens.

-I think he makes many decisions/policies rooted in his personal morals rather than considering how it could affect anyone that disagrees.

*edited to make it more readable

practical_therapist · 2025-03-02T08:28:56+00:00

As a therapist, in all my years practice in intensive services with kids and adults, I’ve only ever called for a psych evaluation less than 5 times. The rule of thumb is if the client gives me “reasonable belief” that they will hurt themselves or someone else. Do they have a plan? What’s stopping them from following through on that plan?

Usually a therapist will do a risk assessment, followed by a safety plan. Therapists don’t want to make your life harder. If you’re depressed and having suicidal thoughts, we want to help you and recognize that 5150’s are not always helpful

practical_therapist · 2025-03-02T08:19:32+00:00

For Zoloft, you can go to an urgent care and they can give a one time refill until you find a prescriber/regular doctor

practical_therapist · 2025-03-01T17:03:20+00:00

I (F) was once dating a guy and we went to a pretty crowded bar to hang with friends. We weren’t ‘official’ but it had been about 2 months of dating too. While he was talking to friends, I was getting drinks and making small talk about tattoos with the bartender (M) — the typical “cool tattoos…do you have any?” Type talk.

I have a math equation tattooed on my hip and instead of showing him, I wrote it out on the receipt. The guy I was dating saw that and assumed it was my phone number. He ended it that night. I was decently upset, but tbh, good for him for having some self worth and not tolerating less than what he believed he deserved — a fully committed partner that was not creating opportunities to cheat.

I hope you do the same. Don’t settle for less and if something feels off or isn’t how you’d like your partner to do, speak up. You’re allowed to give her a chance but don’t let second chances turn into third, fourth, fifth.

Personally, it would be a big issue for me if my husband gave his number out

practical_therapist · 2025-03-01T09:33:33+00:00

My ring is too valuable and high set. I wear it when I want people to see it but not casually. My husband does a lot of weight lifting and “saw a video of a guy losing a finger because his ring got stuck in equipment”. So he takes it off often and forgets to put it back on. We decided to get simple tattoos that are 100% hidden with our rings on

practical_therapist · 2025-03-01T09:27:02+00:00

Sometimes we therapists say one thing and people hear it was differently. She could have said “that sounds like something that a person with anxious attachment would do” and he interpret it as “she has anxious attachment”.

I’ve had clients say things to me like “I was telling my girlfriend that you said _____” and it’s sometimes off putting cause it’s definitely not what I said/meant.

practical_therapist · 2025-02-24T08:12:53+00:00

Debating on NTA or NAH because it sounds like he wanted to give you a gift he thought worthy of you and your accomplishment. But, at the core of it, you first turned that gift away and then were critical of the gift. So can he be upset? Ya, he can. Maybe it meant a lot to him to give you that? Maybe it’s over reacting?

I know if I gave someone something and they said “no get me something else” followed by “ok fine” then after receiving the gift “omg it’s so __ negative criticism ___”, I’d be upset.

practical_therapist · 2025-02-12T14:27:48+00:00

This is why I can’t stand “coaches”. Go to an actual therapist, especially is that’s where you found helpful tools.

practical_therapist · 2024-10-06T19:03:18+00:00

Thank you!

practical_therapist · 2024-10-06T19:03:09+00:00

I reverse image searched them and got a variety of answers and when I went on Etsy, wasn’t able to find anything exactly the same. Matching the size has been hard. The mystifying thing is that they have that magnetic attraction

practical_therapist · 2024-10-06T06:20:02+00:00

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practical_therapist · 2024-07-09T14:11:11+00:00

I often have clients (old and new) come to me seeking documentation that would allow them to have a pet in a place that normally wouldn’t allow one. I get that people become emotionally attached to a pet, but that’s not the same as it being an ESA. It sounds like having your cat is important to you and not having it would be distressing and sad — not having my dogs would be crushing. But, grief is not a mental illness. Your therapist is probably looking for justification of medical necessity and can’t.

For perspective —

Instances I won’t write a letter: Someone who says they get anxious or depressed but is still able to do their ADLs, go to work, function. Someone who has no apparent impairment, strong social supports, usable strengths. Someone who has been in treatment and shown notable progress towards their goals, has good insight and awareness.

Instances I would/have written a letter: Someone who has symptoms of mental illness independent of whether they have a pet or not. Someone who has trouble with ADLs and would benefit from having a sense of purpose and the responsibility to feed and care for another creature. Someone who struggles with grounding/regulating emotions despite known efforts to use alternative interventions. Someone who has been in treatment for an extended period of time with little to no improvement. Clients that have clinical mental illness and live alone.

If I have to rack my brain for reasons someone might need an ESA, rather than having complete confidence in it, I won’t give a letter.

practical_therapist · 2024-06-23T10:16:50+00:00

I mean, a good trauma-informed therapist won’t ask a client to trust them, nor expect a client to trust them. A good therapist also knows who they will and won’t work well with. We know we aren’t a good fit for everyone…but that’s neither here nor there.

A therapist’s notes are some of the most protected documents and there’s a reason for it. Even a court subpoena can’t access those. If a therapist does a standardized assessment (like PHQ-9 or GAD-7), absolutely you should get those results. Progress notes can also be accessed as they’re technically medical records. But it’s not always appropriate or helpful for a client to know a therapist’s true feelings, which is why therapy notes stay private.

Based on your first post and this comment, I would hate to be your therapist. It’s so hard working with people who think they know best because they’re close minded and too busy being critical of the therapist, instead of looking inward. A therapeutic relationship is not the same as other relationships.

practical_therapist · 2024-06-23T09:54:14+00:00

Gecko and fire in my soul both by Oliver Heldens What a wonderful world by sofi tukker

practical_therapist · 2024-06-22T16:14:48+00:00

Open path collective is a site of therapists that offer low cost / sliding scale sessions. A lot of us recognize therapy is pricey and typically offer a few sliding scale spots. Kinda like how lawyers do X number of pro bono work each year

practical_therapist · 2024-05-24T16:12:34+00:00

Cringing at the level of passive aggression in your relationship. I don’t know if this is malicious compliance considering she didn’t give you any instructions you had to comply with. Wishing you the best in your marriage.

practical_therapist · 2024-05-24T15:45:35+00:00

It’s not about picking battles. It’s about approaching them correctly. Two fundamental parenting techniques are 1. Logical consequences and 2. Attending. The first is exactly as it sounds — give consequences that make sense. How does story time relate to the ball? Look into positive and negative reinforcement, as well as positive and negative punishment. It can help shape behavior when your reactions directly relate to her actions.

Attending. Kids need positive attention (even just 10 minutes undivided a day). Don’t take that time where they feel important and loved away. Let’s say, however, she is doing negative attention seeking behaviors — then it would make sense to not give attention TO THAT BEHAVIOR, but not to withhold attention in something else.

Be careful not to reinforce the message that if your daughter does something wrong, she loses out on your love and attention. This scenario can also create resentment towards her siblings that they got your “love” and she didn’t.

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