Alena Interview
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2024
⏱️ 86 minutes
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00:00 Introducing Alena
04:07 Why did Alena want to become a therapist?
16:55 What does Alena hope to do in the future?
20:43 When did they decide to go to grad school?
34:02 Starting work on the podcast
40:08 What other factors influenced Alena towards therapy?
42:52 What has grad school been like so far?
49:54 Does Alena have any hopes for the professional future?
1:00:24 Does Alena know how to use a bidet?
1:02:32 Why does Alena want to go into private practice?
1:05:48 Gaming in therapy
1:09:41 What worries Alena going forward?
1:19:54 Why was Alena terrified of Dr. Kirk?
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February 19, 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Deservyn listeners. Today we have a special guest on the podcast, Alina Honda, and we are related. |
| 0:08.6 | Alina is the Psychology in Seattle Quality Assurance Auditor. I had to look that up earlier this |
| 0:15.3 | morning. We established your working title, your job title months and months ago and |
| 0:21.7 | I forgot what it was. |
| 0:23.2 | Quality Assurance Auditor. |
| 0:25.3 | I'm pretty sure I got that from googling. |
| 0:27.4 | What do you call someone that does something like what you do? |
| 0:30.5 | What Alina does is they will listen to all the episodes to make sure |
| 0:35.8 | I'm not saying anything stupid or if there's an editing problem and you know also |
| 0:41.5 | establish all the time stamps which are helpful for people to kind of skip forward or whatever. |
| 0:46.5 | So welcome to the podcast, Alina. |
| 0:48.5 | Thank you. Thank you very much. |
| 0:50.0 | Alina is also my older brother's oldest kid. |
| 0:54.3 | So today we're going to talk about how you decided to become a therapist |
| 0:59.3 | and your initial experiences of grad school. |
| 1:03.2 | But first I have some rapid fire question for you, what questions for you? |
| 1:07.2 | Favorite Pokemon? |
| 1:08.2 | Uh, chandelier. |
| 1:10.2 | Ooh, I don't even know if I know that one. |
| 1:11.9 | It looks like a chandelier Pokemon. |
| 1:14.0 | It's very pretty. |
| 1:14.9 | Favorite video game? |
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