Interviewing My Students #2 (2014 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 5 September 2024
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January 15, 2014
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and Psychology in Seattle. I'm your host Kirk Honda, licensed therapist, and professor. Today on |
| 0:15.5 | the podcast I have two very special guests with us. They were students in a course I |
| 0:20.0 | taught last quarter. Welcome to the podcast. I thought I would have them on the |
| 0:26.0 | podcast to talk about their experiences of their first quarter in |
| 0:29.7 | graduate school as they train to become therapists. |
| 0:33.0 | Alicia, Christie, tell us, why did you choose to become a therapist? |
| 0:37.0 | I mean, I've done a lot of different things in my life, and this is kind of just one thing that's felt like something that I always thought I would do well or that I would just enjoy. |
| 0:48.0 | I've always been really attracted to understanding aggression and violence and I'm attracted to the idea of being |
| 0:56.8 | like an authority on aggression and violence and intimate relationship, aggression and violence and family aggression and violence in particular and yeah and I guess |
| 1:06.4 | that along with just really wanting to help people |
| 1:10.4 | so you're drawn to it because you wanted to help people and in particular you're interested in family violence and helping people with that? |
| 1:18.0 | Yeah. Okay, good. What about you, Christy? |
| 1:21.0 | Initially I wanted to be a counselor. I wanted to be an art therapist or a therapist. |
| 1:25.8 | This is 20 years ago and I'm 40 now. |
| 1:28.3 | So back then, though, I perceived a counseling profession for myself as too easy or like something I thought that |
| 1:36.3 | it would be easy. |
| 1:37.3 | You know, I thought, well I naturally talked about emotions or whatever. |
| 1:40.8 | And in my family growing up, talking about emotions was a very feminine thing and a lot of |
| 1:45.7 | feminine things were also bad or not really useful. |
| 1:50.1 | So I think on some level I had some internalized depression in regards to thinking that talking |
| 1:54.7 | about emotions wasn't really like a profession, a career. |
| 2:00.7 | And then so that kind of delayed the trajectory. Then things shifted when I went back to school I went back and got my |
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