Am I A Bad Therapist?

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🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Am I A Bad Therapist?: Victoria wonders if she’s doing more harm than good as a young psychotherapist. - Dr. Laura: "Even discussion of process of therapy is therapeutic." | Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://family.drlaura.com/pg/jsp/help/general/privacypolicy.jsp for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this edition of the Call of the Day.
0:03.8	Be sure to listen to my program Monday through Friday now heard on Sirius XM Triumph 2011.
0:09.9	Victoria, welcome to the program.
0:12.8	Hi, Dr. Laura. How are you?
0:14.9	Good. Thank you. What's up?
0:17.4	Well, my question for you is I am a 25-year-old and I am a psychotherapist.
0:25.9	And I am wondering if I am doing more harm than good by being a therapist and if I should switch careers.
0:33.2	What makes you think you might be doing harm? What's happening?
0:38.1	More so than kind of like what you said with the bad therapists on your show.
0:46.4	Having to validate people and I'm still under supervisors and they're wanting me to not go by morals
0:54.6	but going by making people feel good.
0:58.3	Okay, and when are your supervisory hours done?
1:02.5	In a year. Oh.
1:06.5	Do they have tapes of what you do or do you just report in?
1:11.0	I get tape. So they're taped?
1:16.2	Oh, sorry. What was that?
1:18.0	Are your sessions taped? Are your supervisors look at a tape of your session?
1:23.2	No, they do not.
1:25.2	So you can do good work and then go in for supervision and ask questions about interesting things.
1:34.7	And they can supervise the interesting questions you ask.
1:37.8	Meanwhile, you can go do a good job.
1:41.2	So it's probably not that you're doing harm.
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