Hey guys!
So just yesterday, we finally got our grades back from the summer session and I am proud to say my grades weren't too shabby! Nothing a little heavy concentration couldn't cook up! With that being said, that means my co-therapist, who also happens to be one of my closest of friends, and I are literally one month away from starting our co-therapy sessions! Can you guess how excited I am to begin doing therapy sessions with clients? here's your answer: We were in Anthropology the other day and I literally spent a hot minute found the perfect notebook to scribble therapy notes in!
On another note many have been asking me what are my therapy sessions going to look like, so I will try my best to paint the perfect picture of what I think "a day in the life of my therapy days" will look like. Some key things that we're going to be expected to complete during our orientation is we'll be receiving our extension numbers ( ex. 78556 (example)) and also setting up our voicemails for them. Talk about official! We'll also be setting up our usernames and passwords to log into the recording system to record all of our therapy sessions. We're supposed to read the ENTIRE clinic policies and procedures manuals and you don't even want to get me started on how many pages that is; and of course we're to dress in professional attire at all times (which i literally cannot wait to do!). But once we're all broken in I'd imagine my co-therapist and I will have agreed on dates and times that work best for the both of us to see the clients. When we arrive, there are a bit of filing things and documents we have to first file away and make sure are entered into the computers and proper filing places, we'll then probably review the file and intake forms for our upcoming cases and then for 1 hour we will begin using our various interventions and theories to work with couples, families and even individuals. We'll takes breaks in between sessions and check in behind the one-way mirror to see if any of our peers or even supervisors have any helpful tips for where to take the conversations next or what intervention would be most effective and then we will re-intervene with them.
At the end of sessions we'll have them rate our performance of how well they feel the session went that day and then my co-therapist and i will together at the end of the evening and document all of our notes into the computer and save our recordings and make sure we file away things and put confidential items where they belong and that I believe will be pretty much what my therapy sessions next month will look like! Im super excited as well as super nervous but at the end of the day, I know she and I will do what comes naturally to us which is finding ways to help others and to make a difference in someone's life by any good means necessary!