What's the Hardest Thing About Being a Therapist?

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What's the Hardest Thing About Being a Therapist?
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I'm always curious to hear from fellow therapists about what it's like to be a therapist. Today, I dive into responses to a Reddit post that asked what the hardest thing about being a therapist is and share some of my thoughts and reactions.
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@everyonesrunnin 26 дней назад

Thank you for this Marie! As someone who is still in the first years of my private practice, one of the hardest parts is not having more inquiries from potential clients, despite my marketing efforts. It makes me compare myself to others and the success that they’ve had, and feel like there must be something fundamental to who I am that makes people less inclined to want to reach out to me for therapy.

@our.secret1130 23 дня назад

Ouch! Maybe you should hire a coach or advisor who specializes in this?

@terriw919 24 дня назад

As a client who has been helped tremendously by my therapist, I have the utmost respect and admiration for therapists who are dedicated to helping people. It is enlightening to see what many of you experience. I always tell my therapist how much I appreciate her and the work we've done together. I also want to thank you all for doing what you do!

@bill6112 26 дней назад

Appreciate your honesty about 100%. We are human. The overall relationship which is centered around safety and support can provide grace on the hard days.

@straybard_art 25 дней назад

As a therapist still in training and going through a really tough time, thank you for making this video

@Bungeejumper1377 26 дней назад

Thank for this video, I love how supportive you are! There is a theorist named W.D. Winnicott who says that a therapist doesn't have to perfect (aka give 100% everyday) but just needs to be "good enough". Meaning we don't have to exhaust and deplete ourselves to be therapeutic, but we just have to show up and be present, attuned and not be reactive with our clients. This helps me so much because it gives me permission to just relax, to just listen, to not fix, to not rescue, to just be with my client. It's okay to have "idol" sessions where you can talk about whatever comes up and let go of agendas or goals. These sessions are very important!

@shawncrawford1777 22 дня назад

Yes! This reflects my viewpoint and my approach. Well said. I find this is what works for me - showing up at my best as much as possible, but also knowing I'm better on some days versus others but always can provide something of worth to the clients I have chosen to see.

@nitameyerink4296 22 дня назад

Hardest part is putting in more effort for a client's success than they do and listening to the same issues over and over and the client doesn't do the work to create change. Best part: having clients figure it out, implement what they have learned and tell me that they are good to go.

@our.secret1130 23 дня назад

I like these reddit responses video format. I live my dual life on Reddit

@cns7404 25 дней назад

This is so validating and supportive!!! I appreciate it when we, as therapists, can have an honest conversation about the struggles of being in this field! 😢❤

@labdian 26 дней назад

I work in a country where psychologists earn minimum wage in institutional settings (schools, hospitals, prisons etc.). You'd be horrified to hear the numbers. I work in three settings and all those agencies expect me to give a 100 per cent. To get any additional income I keep a private practice, but the rent and the expenses eat up almost all of the earnings. To be honest, the hardest thing for me and many, many, many psychologists in my supervision and consult groups often say the hardest thing about this job is a thing that wasn't mentioned here at all, but I know many school psychologists in the US also have that problem, and that is the severe fragmentation of our days. I am sometimes at four places during one work day, consulting one or two people in every one of those places. In April and May when the burnout is in full bloom in my country I've had more and more cases of double-booking, forgetting appointments, mixing up times etc. If you're in a school at 8 a.m., kindergarten at 12, School Board at 4 p.m. and then slave away in your private practice for the last hours of the workday before getting home and cooking a meal for your family at 9 p.m., you're absolutely prone to mixing things up and getting them wrong, and since the private practice is the least predictable of all the other workplaces, it gets the last crumbs of my energy for the day. Yes, I know, it's poor boundaries and very huge workload, but many psychologists here in Latvia just see no other option if they want to pay there bills and mortgages, cover all the courses, supervision and all the other huge expenses.

@Lana2006-o7i 25 дней назад

I can’t give anything or anyone 100% of my attention and focus most of the time. I pay close attention but am also expected to be typing note and completely forms. I work in community health. One therapist I knew had a caseload of 180!

@nitameyerink4296 22 дня назад

If you give away 100% you have nothing left for you. I would say I give 85% and keep some in reserve so I can focus on a 5 minute reset between clients. Quality of presence, safe space, and being able to listen is more important than this twisted idea that if you aren't 'leaving it all on the table you shouldn't be in this field'.