As a client that is struggling right now with “figuring out what my therapist must be thinking” and how to approach my next session, this was super clarifying and helpful. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏

@KellyRMinter

4 ай бұрын

I'm so glad! Thanks for watching 💜💜

I really appreciate how you explained you do notes. I do the same thing while I know others who type them while in session. It has become a big issue though when I get home and am then typing them all up including assessments up until 1am which isn't efficient of my time. I like to jot down some main themes/symptoms handwritten too. I'm thinking I need to really be mindful to end sessions earlier in order to have time in between. The documentation part is the worst of the job.

@KellyRMinter

2 жыл бұрын

It really is the hardest thing to be routine about, isn't it? I think it's because it is the least engaging, and also it can sometimes be hard to go right back through it when you have JUST finished the session. But once it all gets on top of you, it is hard to dig yourself out, right? I feel that in a BIG way.

@anitaknight3915

2 жыл бұрын

@@KellyRMinter you're absolutely right it really is the hardest thing and easy to procrastinate and get behind on!! The last few places I've worked at told me upon hire they wanted notes done within 24 hrs and treatment plans after seeing clients at least 2x. It's very unrealistic and other people there I find out recently do their notes whenever and are behind up to a week-month and don't even do treatment plans yet had the nerve to hold me to that unfair double standard🙄😏!! I've tried several ways and I always come back to how you described jotting down a few key themes handwritten notes while they're talking then typing them all at night or a few things after then going back to edit/clean up what's typed. It's rough because I can see up to 6 in a row which gives me no time in between and then I'm up hours at night🤦‍♀️. I'm relatively new a few months at a place and on a lot of days had up to 3 assessments scheduled which is even more time consuming to type up. It's a struggle. In these circumstances, most people would schedule breaks and or conduct less sessions and charge more for their rates, however I'm at the LPC newly licensed level. I'm at a place like a private practice outpatient but considered group clinical work where we only get paid for sessions and they take 50% of the fee. No paid benefits holidays/vacay sick time(you'd get it off unpaid and can pay in for expensive insurance plans)if someone clients no shows/cancellations- I don't get paid then if I don't see a client especially if the slot has no time to get filled. I know in my heart I cannot stay there and it isn't beneficial to me at all emotionally or financially. Many clinicians feel obligated to schedule 9-11 daily just to meet ends meet. I'm being billed at an intern rate 60$ sessions across the board while the ones above me in supervision fully licensed bill 185 an assessment and 100-150 a session. Meanwhile I'm doing a ton of the work and documentation I'm not getting paid for and then I can never rely on what I'll even get paid due to no shows/cancellations and a superior must release my notes. I wonder if you've been through this or seen it's typical in the field. It's grossly underpaying and taking advantage inevitably leading to burnout no question with this type of work setting. I loved your down to earth delivery style in the videos.

@Medietos

Жыл бұрын

I get you. What about doing AA 12 steps (in open AA meetings), with a (free)sponsor good for you`? You'd learn a quick and efficient way.

I don't get the note-problem, my therapist takes hand-written notes (not in US) and I have absolutely no problem with it. I would be concerned if he didn't take notes and think he would forget stuff. However, if there was a laptop in front of him I would not like it, cos I don't know if he's just googeling what to cook tonight.

@KellyRMinter

2 ай бұрын

That makes sense too! I think it goes back a LOT to the therapeutic alliance. The relationship btwn the client and therapist informs how they feel about note taking 💛💛

I have had bad experiences with attractive females in the field, like they feel like refusing me unless I was this better looking guy. When I told them that I’ve had bad luck and been alone because I feel I’ll just be rejected. Their reactions were to get rid of me, even finding out through a staff member and not them, who pulled the strings. It’s like many professionals still don’t know how to deal with “creeps”. Like, makes just want to think you only doing it for the money?

@aidyn5916

Ай бұрын

Are you making them uncomfortable in any way? Maybe see a male you can relate to more.

@allclassallthetime4739

Ай бұрын

@@aidyn5916 it’s fairly presumptive they were uncomfortable but to me they can feel uncomfortable without much provocation, just fly into it instantly and extreme prejudice. It’s like if I’m not stud looking material young attractive female therapists that just happen to be assigned to me get an instant ick feeling just cause I’m not good looking to them.

@allclassallthetime4739

Ай бұрын

And even if anyone was so bad, doesn’t that person need help to begin with? That’s my point. The women aren’t equipped to deal with males and if they are quote unquote creeps then they are not even human and undeserving of anything, but that’s the point of your profession. I mean put on some big girl pants. If the forensic psychologist can stomach it why can’t you? Sure not their field but deal with it in an immature way? That’s just unprofessional and flighty. At least show that you care then that would make a huge difference. I’m talking now about in general.

@KellyRMinter

Ай бұрын

Woah, ok. I'm going to need to step in here. Your typical private practice clinician or your typical clinical therapist has a VERY different training from a forensic psychologist. Also, a forensic psychologist is not meant to be therapeutic but to be evaluative. The two require the clinician to pull from very different skill sets and require very different trainings, and are meant for very different purposes. Additionally, ESPECIALLY if you are comparing what you are bringing up in therapy to what a forensic psychologist typically sees on a given day, you would do well to your own therapeutic process to find someone who specializes in what you are looking to work on. While we are all trained as generalists, most of us then begin specialized training in certain areas. Especially with the experiences you've shared here, it sounds like you are frustrated at not being able to find a good fit. I would be frustrated too. For your own healing, you deserve to not feel abandoned by your support system.

If you do as you here say, you are a gem and I wish I could have you. What you said is as it says in psycho-therapists' books but as it is not ususally in reality at least it was not for me so far. If I came to you and you said this to me, I would start to relax and feel a it safe, which is the f7undament of the therapy work. Do you take on difficulkt, complex cases too? Do you have/take the right to take mea

@KellyRMinter

Жыл бұрын

It is not ok for a therapist to violate a client's trust like that. I do not know the circumstances under which you had this happen to you, but I a sorry for them. There are very few authorities that can compel a licensed therapist to violate a client's trust like this, and even those that can have a very narrow scope of what can be required. 💚💚💚

@Medietos

Жыл бұрын

@@KellyRMinter Thanl you for your kind reply to me, and I am sorry for my typing mistakes. It is at least in part the equivalent of the Food and Drug Administration, and they probably work under the government. Since the patients, doctors and psychiatry don't protest and speak up together, the horrors can continue and brave but sick patents like me get crushed for trying to defend and save myself. The latest abuse psychologist said it is becaue I am "critical". That is true, but in such long-term sleep deprivation, alonely terror and uncertainty for many years, withheld help, dentist, Dr , home, one gets unable to control what on says, not grounded, it has to do with a term related to homeostasis, when that recovery is hindered long-term. I don't think they have compelled the therapists, but rather there are guidlines that the obeying Swedes follow of their own accord, even when meaningless for patients.

Do therapist get annoyed when clients try to diagnose themselves? Or suggest that they may have additional disorders or syndromes?

@KellyRMinter

3 жыл бұрын

I don't think annoyed would be a word I would use. I personally love when a client comes in with an idea of what is going on with them, and they are interested in talking about it. And if I say something, especially diagnosis related, that a client doesn't agree with (or doesn't think it goes far enough) I love when they verbalize that. I may put this question on the list to do a video on. I love this!

@RainbowKid71

3 жыл бұрын

@@KellyRMinter please do! I'm a naturally curious person and am constantly trying to explore new ideas that may help me manage my bipolar better. I give my therapist theories often. Just feel like I am trying to do his job at times.

@EteruVatu

3 ай бұрын

Great question. My self-diagnosing got out of hand, and I’m aware of that, but I’m ashamed to mention my latest realizations and “diagnoses” in session because I’m afraid what she’s going to think and how she’ll react

You sure you’re not taking down in your notes the names of spouses or children that clients mention so you won’t forget it later? 😂

@KellyRMinter

4 ай бұрын

Ha, Honestly I'm not. I'm sure some therapists are, but I don't use names in session unless my clients do. But there is a very specific reason for that. Sometimes (not always) when a client will use the term "my girlfriend" or "my oldest" when referring to someone in their lives it is an effort to get some space from that relationship so they can hold it up to the light and not feel guilty about processing what they need to process. So by me using their names I bring that relationship back into the familiar, this removing that distance. Idk if that makes sense in writing, but there it is 💜💜