A Facebook friend proudly posted an image of her daughter’s first work placement badge that said “provisional psychologist”. “It’s a big achievement” I commented and I meant it. It isn’t easy to get in to a Masters training program, the course work is heavy and placements are both exciting and daunting. I reflected later how …
Lately I’ve had some interesting conversations about not knowing what to do and vulnerability. It seems some senior psychologists don’t like people to know what they don’t know. They hide from their employees where they get their business ideas from, believing that as leaders they can’t demonstrate any kind of not knowing. That admitting they …
Why it’s important to admit what you don’t know. Read More »
One of the most helpful things I encountered in one of those therapist tales type books I read (it may have been the mummy at the dining room table) was this. The therapist shared their disappointment that the non-judgemental acceptance and empathy they could feel for their clients was much harder to apply in their …
