GiveLoveAchance

When going out with a therapist-in-training realize that your going out with someone whose going to be empathetic, understanding, great at listening, and has a sense of curiosity. Understand that these traits are what makes someone to be a great therapist. These traits are something we don’t just happen to switch on and off, it’s a constant, ingrained through personality or training.

So when I meet someone who says that they felt that they were being analyzed throughout the entire date. I take that personal. I do analyze people, it’s sorta part of my profession. In addition to that, it’s personal because that’s who I am. I am a therapist-in-training. I live with psychoanalysis. I ate lunch with Rogers and Jung last Friday. I have a on-going joke with cognitions through CBT.

In order for a therapist-in-training to become a therapist, the therapist-in-training becomes the main instrument for treatment. There isn’t a intervention or technique alive that can work without a trained therapist. It isn’t because the therapist is highly skilled or has tons of education. The therapist gives life to the process of therapy, by just being who they are.

If you date me, understand, you will be analyzed (I’m not going to deny it). But also remember, it’s a part of me that can’t be turned off.

You just have to accept me, as I will accept you.