So many inner critics in my chair this week .. Needed to be sure she's (daughter) getting a self kindness dose 🥺✨💔
#TherapistsConnect #MomOfTeens #Affirmations #RerouteTheInnerCritic

Anyone doing the #IFS Immersion course thru #PESI? Starting the recorded training today.
My favorite simple intro to the concepts is the "Parts Work: An Illustrated Guide to Your Inner Life" book by Tom Holmes, PhD & Laurie Holmes, MSW, as well as the Inner Active Cards. Of course the "No Bad Parts" by Richard Schwartz is a must but when explaining to clients the illustrated tools are very useful.
@socialpsych @socialwork @therapists
#TherapistsConnect #TherapistsOfMastodon

This week's win: A client whose PTSD was 63 when we started is down to 19 on the PCL-5, 31-33 is indicative of probable PTSD 🎉
Late start day = what does Tink need in this moment? ☕🏃‍♀️👟🦸‍♀️✨
#wins #TherapistsConnect #today #RunnersOfMastodon #RunnerGirl #CoffeeCup #CoffeTime #MugOfTheDat

These cards are still my favorite entrance into #IFS work.
When people are given permission to have compassion and understand the unmet need a firefighter part is trying to meet, they see their addiction or depression or anxiety in a new way that brings relief. And these images really provide an entrance to their unconscious. #ILovePsychology
@psychology #TherapistsConnect @socialwork @socialpsych @autisticadvocacy

https://shorturl.at/bjrKN

Whew! Any other therapists using IFS out there? I've had some really beautiful sessions recently spent with clients' higher selves comforting their younger selves, and befriending their protectors. It's sometimes as close to a spiritual experience as I have now that I'm not religious (agnostic/ atheist). This work is an honor. I am truly in awe of the human spirit, resilience and innate wisdom when we really sit with and listen.
#TherapistsConnect #IFS @socialwork @socialpsych @psychology

#TherapistsConnect
For seasoned therapists, please weigh in about the adjustments they made in conserving their energy once they were knee deep in their career? I've always been very selective where I put my social energy but I feel like I've become even more picky. This is a reality of this new career, I have to prioritize my energy in my personal life. Engaging w/ people comes stacked w/ a whole lot of stuff it didn't used to. I don't have time for people who drain my battery IRL anymore.

Today's song tbh
#FathersDay #GriefWork #InnerChildHealing #TherapistsOfMastodon #TherapistsConnect
#Music #Grief #Healing #CPTSD
https://youtu.be/SDZ3r8pG9QM

If you had told me 10 years ago, 5 years ago, or even one year ago I'd be working with clients who experience pedophilia, had a stalking charge, or whose partner had tried to kill them I wouldn't believe it. It's a long way from the LDS housewife I once was before leaving the religion, deconstructing and returning to gradschool. Some days it feels surreal to look back and see where life has lead.
#SocialWork #Psychology #TherapistsConnect @socialwork @socialpsych

Malpractice Insurance
It's still weird to remember I have a job that requires this. 🤓 #insurance #SocialWorker
@socialwork #SocialWork @psychology #TherapistsConnect #BehavioralHealth

Personifying the negative distortion mhm

#TherapistsConnect
#Move #music #RunnerGirl #RunnersOfMastodon
4.5 mi almost there

Hey doubt, hey doubt, I'm gonna prove you wrong
Hold on, hold on, I've listened for too long
You're dead to me now, I'm done living with this doubt
I'm not giving in, won't let you in
Gonna push you out
I'm not giving in, won't let you in
It's over now

Doubt
https://youtu.be/q8hSvaAilbk

Jog break interval training mhm
3.10 mi

#RunnerGirl #RunnersOfMastodon #TherapistsConnect (song lyrics from my clients ✨😘 heh)

We're all our own works in progress

Participation Trophies
https://youtu.be/1y_E3ttJr_g

"The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients" by Irvin D. Yalom, M.D.
If you've read it, what stuck? Anything specific you valued? Only on Chapter 8, but enjoying so far.
#reading #bookstodon #today #books #TherapistsConnect #SocialWork

Sometimes, being a #therapist means standing in the room after the patient left, hugging and swaying myself and processing the emotions and trauma that they are not yet ready to process. This shit is SO heavy, man.

#TherapistsConnect #TherapistsOfMastodon

Hey, @psychotherapists, this blog post above points to a very interesting article about a more phenomenological conception of schizophrenia. It is not particularly radical or a huge change in conception from the DSM model, but it frames sx more in line with the inner lived experience reported by people experiencing them. If you work with clients on the sz spectrum, I recommend it. Thought provoking.

#therapistsOfMastodon #therapsids #therapistsConnect
@imperfectcognitions

What a letdown! I was promised that ChatGPT was "a bullshit generator" but I can't get it to output a 3rd-party-payer-adequate tx plan at all. Hrmph!

@psychotherapists
#therapsids #therapistsconnect #therapistsofmastodon

Back traversing to Aberdeen for the last stretch of training 🌅

This morning’s reading is a stigma-free view of disassociation:

💬 ‘While disassociation, or specifically the traumatic roots of it, can cause problems in daily living or in societal systems - problems that need to be addressed - disassociation is a skill that has allowed so many of us to survive, and in many ways, to thrive.’

10/10, would recommend 👌

#TherapistsConnect #therapy #counselling #psychotherapy #scotland #uk

My rare engagement in spamming.

I just opened my telehealth-based practice as a therapist in the Seattle area. I can see Washington State clients. I am planning to mostly focus on workers in the tech industry though i have a strong background working with active duty soldier and veterans as I did my internship for the US Army Chaplain Corps as a therapist.

#TherapistsConnect #TherapistsofMastodon #therapy

http://albertbillings.com

@grantdenkinson
....! I just randomly woke up thinking about him.

Well, not so randomly: I have been watching a video about Canada's COVID response that's so upsetting I am having trouble getting through it, that is about how utterly unwilling the Infectious Disease doctors in Canada were to accept the work of scientists from other fields (aerosol physicists, in particular) all the way back to SARS1...

And I keep thinking about Charles Silverstein walking into that meeting of the American Psychiatric Association Nomenclature Committee clutching a literature review of all the scientific study of homosexuality in other branches of science that the psychiatrists didn't know about, and how it changed the world, because the psychiatrists were willing to be changed. Because they were willing to have their minds changed by science.

@psychiatry @psychotherapists
@psychology
#therapsids #therapists #therapistsofmastodon #therapistsconnect

There's a Covid-Conscious Therapist Directory!

QT @LifeLivedWildly@Twitter:
https://twitter.com/LifeLivedWildly/status/1618625306738282497

It shouldn't be hard to find a therapist who knows their clients' COVID fears are a rational and appropriate response to what's happening. But it somehow is, even after three years. So I made a directory to make it easy. Here's the link to join.

https://www.covidconscioustherapists.com/

@psychology @socialwork @psychotherapists @psychiatry
#therapists #therapsids
#therapistsOfMastodon #therapistsConnect #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #VentilationIsTheNewSanitation

I'm sorry to have to report, the UN just declared that no psychotherapist or counsellor in the UK may use the term "framework" henceforth. From the BBC article: "'They were entrusted with a valuable linguistic resource and they have relentlessly abused it,' said one official from the UN's Office of the Special Rapporteur on Jargon on background. Dr. Sy Kodynamic, who advocated for the limitation, greeted the news with 'relief', saying, 'The term "framework" clearly has some sort of psychosexual charge for British behavioral health professionals, and they should really just get a room.'"

#therapistsconnect #therapistsofmastodon