2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
If you feel uncomfortable before meeting a client for the first time, it may be worth taking advantage of the experience of foreign colleagues and doing this.
Judith S. Beck, internship since 1982
"Your main goal is a therapeutic relationship with a client. Therefore, you should start working on your own anxiety and fears long before the first session. Just be interested, smile, but always remember that the client should be relaxed, not you. Do not forget about feedback. after the session, she will help you in building a lasting relationship with the client. For example, ask: What do you think of today's session? Was there something that you think I misunderstood? really want to talk next time?"
John Murray, Ph. D., sports psychologist, private practice since 1999.
"Concentrate on something external - this will help to overcome anxiety and insecurity. In fact, anything can distract you from your inner experiences: the timbre of the client's voice, the color of his clothes. The main thing is to emerge in time."
Rachel Uffelman, Ph. D., corporate psychologist, has been practicing since 2006.
"If you think that you are not ready for the first meeting with the client, talk about it with the supervisor. The feeling of insecurity always accompanies entering the profession. And you, of course, are able to overcome it yourself. However, the supervisor can significantly speed up this process and make his creative and constructive."
Richard Kilburg, Ph. D., Director of Human Resources, University. Johns Hopkins, psychologist since 1974
“All you have to do in the first session is listen. Your own anxiety can be transmitted to the client, and this is a bad way to start working together. Listen to the client, follow his mood light, not with a load of insecurity. Socrates said:“I know that I do not know anything. "So you should understand that in the first session no one asks you for brilliant ideas and insights. Accept that you are not ideal. and listen to the client."
Stanley Sue, professor of psychology at the University of California, has been practicing since 1971.
"When you work with a client, you need a plan, an agenda. If you want. This will help you focus. However, do not let the agenda clash with the natural flow of the session. Balance is important. Often the client's problems are not resolved in one meeting with the therapist, and this can It is important at the first meeting to outline the positive results and achievements that await the client at the end of therapy. Seeing the benefits, it will be easier for the client to decide on a long-term therapy."
Believe in yourself and never give up:)
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