Private practice is the ideal - bringing autonomy, flexibility, and the ability to shape your own professional journey. But, behind the freedom lies a challenge that creeps up on us and makes us question the choices we’ve made about how we work.
A clinical pathway shows you how to keep your feet moving in the right direction, but the speed of your steps and where you pause are unique to each client.
There is a common misconception that talking comes naturally and psychological therapy is a rather straightforward process of adding interventions into otherwise naturally flowing dialogue between two people.
An obvious way to try to improve client outcomes, used by many mental health professionals, is to invest more time and more money into more therapy models.
I never believed I would go to University. None of my 10 siblings, nor any family relation I had ever known had ever been there, so I had no reason to want to go.
The only psychological place where you can shake off other people’s perspectives is when you’re totally grounded in YOUR perspective – that place where you just feel like you.
We all might admit that we have spent a lot of time pleasing others and trying to be better, or even perfect. But as you get older, you’re in a better place to give yourself permission to focus on you.