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My Failures as a Therapist (rerun) (Patreon)

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2019-10-13 14:00:02
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2024-02

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[Rerun from 2015] Dr. Kirk Honda talks about his failures as a therapist.


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October 13, 2019.


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Music by Bread Knife Incident.  


This content is for educational and informational purposes only. Although Kirk Honda is a licensed marriage and family therapist, this content is not a replacement for proper mental health treatment. Always seek the advice of your mental health provider regarding any questions or concerns you have about your mental health needs.

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Anonymous

Second comment: I totally agree with Kirk about not bad-mouthing other therapists, and resisting the temptation to make assumptions based on the client’s perspective alone. I had a potentially dangerous situation (in terms of liability) when I was seeing a borderline client for a little while, and then she changed to another therapist who, I think out of the therapist’s own need to be seen as helpful and protective, and to bond with her new client, convinced my former client that I’d been abusive. I’m clear that I hadn’t, although of course in retrospect there were things I saw I could have done better. It could have gone very, very badly from that point. Fortunately it didn’t.

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I'm glad it didn't Joel! I empathise. There's no benefit to our client to us not believing them, but that's different from splitting off down the road of undermining the previous therapeutic relationship. I will always try not to go beyond "what was helpful and what was unhelpful in your last therapy", and exploring that in order to try to learn from the client and the previous therapist both. One'd hope that all the good things in the relationship could be internalised eventually, regardless of mistakes.

Anonymous

The whole thing of forgiving myself for making mistakes is so new to me that every time I do it I go down the road of worrying that I am really arrogant and blind to my own flaws. I see how I misstep with clients and see what I have learned from it and how I can do better next time, both for that client and future ones, and then I start thinking "why don't you feel guilty about this!?" This episode helps, thank you!