Should I Be A Therapist? (2013 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 21 January 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I'm your host, Kirk Honda Professor and Licensed Therapist. |
| 0:07.0 | It's just me today. I thought I would do an episode on choosing a career in psychology or psychotherapy and applying to graduate |
| 0:17.2 | training programs. |
| 0:19.5 | Listener Zoe wrote in the following email and others have asked me very similar questions both |
| 0:24.3 | through the podcast over email and also at the school where I teach. So her email goes |
| 0:30.0 | like this and I'm skipping over the parts where she talks glowingly about the |
| 0:33.8 | email and about me of course so I won't go into that but just let it be known that |
| 0:38.3 | listener Zoe loves me and the podcast okay I quote as I progress through the stages of preparing to apply I find myself very afraid and |
| 0:48.0 | discouraged it's very odd to me actually because I'm not doubting that I want to do this work but I'm also very |
| 0:54.4 | unsure as to my suitability for it. I worry that I'm not capable of handling the emotional |
| 0:59.9 | stress of other people and their suffering. I keep putting off the application |
| 1:04.1 | process thinking that I need to be more mature. I just graduated from college I'm |
| 1:08.3 | 22. But then I reproach myself a little for stalling and not moving forward in my life where I could. |
| 1:15.2 | So she asks the following questions. |
| 1:17.8 | My question is, how did you know you were ready to be a therapist? |
| 1:21.8 | Did it take a lot of time to adjust to the demands of the job? |
| 1:25.5 | Or was it something you felt fairly comfortable with despite moments of stress? |
| 1:29.6 | Do you think there may be some people who want to do the work but are not constitutionally built for it |
| 1:34.4 | or can anyone do it with the right amount of effort and motivation. |
| 1:38.9 | So these are very good questions and I would say they're very common questions I would say. |
| 1:45.0 | Hey deserving listeners this is an old episode that we have re-released as a patron |
| 1:50.4 | exclusive episode so if you want to hear the full episode you have to |
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