As mentioned in Healing Yourself as You Heal Others, often the work you do as a therapist with clients leads you to discover and face your own personal wounds. This personal journey is essentially a requirement to avoid having your own issues interfere with the therapy you are conducting with your clients via counter-transference that […]
Social Work Internship: 12th Week
The other day at my placement was particularly difficult for me. One of my clients, let’s call her S, came in after having cut herself a few days earlier and as I questioned her, I learned that she had some suicidal ideation. In layman’s terms, this means that she expressed some wishes or fantasies about […]