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Therapists Off Script: Seasons of a Therapist: Path to Licensure (Part One) The Trainee Path
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Join Jen and Alyx as we discuss Seasons of a Therapist: Path to Licensure (Part One)
Topics:
· Importance of connection and network of support along your path to licensure
· Learning from others who have traveled the path without a time machine
· Hearing a former trainees experience
· When practicum starts in grad school
· When you begin seeing “real clients”
· The first client session
· When the imposter syndrome shows up
· Normalizing first time jitters
· Choosing your grad school program and trainee site
· Importance of mentors and paying it forward
· Acclimating to being a therapist
· Honing the inherit natural abilities as a therapist
· Abundance Mindset versus Scarcity Mindset
· Interconnected mental health field and individual provider’s web
· Know your why’s (values-based) of being a supervisor
· Seasons of a Therapist
· Growth Mindset
· Throwback to Mt. Everest (episode one)
· Learn everyday
· Paperwork/ documentation as a supervisee
· Importance of getting your hours (and other docs) signed as you travel the path
· Minimum and Maximum Trainee hours one may earn while in grad school
· Important questions to ask when selecting trainee site
· Direct and Indirect Hours
· Career Fair
· Interviewing for your Trainee Site (plan ahead)
· Earning supervision hours while in grad school
· 90-Day Rule
· Trainees may only work in exempt sites (associates may work in private practice and / or corporations (only with first registration number up to 6 years)
· Unit ratios overview within individual, triadic, and group supervision
· Supervision ratios to be able to count experience for any given week
· Do not be afraid to ask questions
· Constructive feedback versus damaging feedback
· Taken advantage of learning and growth opportunities
· Juggling multiple supervisors
· Leveling up as a supervisee
· Regardless of where you are on the path—never stop asking questions
· When you stop learning, you stop growing
· Shout Out to Powerful Supervisors
Resources:
“On Being a Therapist” by Kottler (affiliate link)
CAMFT (California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists)
Master Checklist for MFT Licensure
Music by Thunderbird Ooyy via Epidemic
Therapists Off Script
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