Self Disclosure (Deep Dive)(2017 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, deserving listeners, it's just me today. |
| 0:09.0 | Today I'm going to talk about self-disclosure. |
| 0:12.4 | But first, I want to read an email from patron Kate. |
| 0:15.7 | She writes, |
| 0:16.7 | Hi, Kirk, I am a proud patron of the podcast, |
| 0:19.8 | and I'm also a graduate student getting my MSW. I was wondering if you could do an episode on Disclosure. I'm doing my second-year |
| 0:27.4 | internship at a well-known psychiatric hospital, and my supervisor really frowns on disclosure. I find myself struggling with this a lot. It's not that I want to bring the conversation |
| 0:39.5 | back to me, but I want to relate to the patients as fellow human beings and to let them know |
| 0:44.5 | someone really does understand that they aren't alone. I get that one could potentially do this |
| 0:50.0 | without disclosing anything, but it feels unnatural and not nearly as effective as self-disclosure. |
| 0:56.9 | I'd be really interested to hear your process of deciding and why you don't want your |
| 1:02.3 | clients to know certain things about you but are okay with them knowing others. |
| 1:07.7 | She asks a few other questions here. |
| 1:09.6 | Do you ever find it hard to hold back from relating, or I'm |
| 1:12.9 | guessing she's asking, do I, to hold back from self-disclosing about my experience? Do you have any |
| 1:18.4 | stories from when you ended up regretting sharing or not sharing something? What do you do when |
| 1:24.1 | clients ask you about yourself? Do you correct them when they've assumed something |
| 1:28.7 | about you that isn't true? Has self-disclosure ever worked in your favor or have been held against |
| 1:34.8 | you? For example, do you find that struggling parents tend to like knowing they are seeing a therapist |
| 1:40.1 | who has kids as well? Any thoughts or musings you have on this complex topic of disclosure |
| 1:45.1 | would be much appreciated. Also, patron Alexander wrote in, she is a tattoo artist, and she finds |
| 1:52.9 | that when she self-disclosures to her clients, her clients relax significantly. So she also |
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