Week Three
I started my own caseload this week. I’m excited about all the training I’m getting but mostly I don’t feel prepared. The tricky thing about interning for a counselor is that when they ask, “What would you do in this situation?” You can’t be sure if they truly expect you to know it, or if they’re testing your intuition, or if they are looking for ideas themselves.
I’m exhausted all the time now. I fell asleep on the waiting room couch in the therapist suite last week. I intern and work 10 hours a day. I have class on the weekends. It’s wearing me down. I need to start going to bed earlier but that leaves me feeling like all I ever do all day everyday is work. I love what I do, but it’s draining and I have just enough time at night to pull my books down and try to figure out a better way of doing whatever I’m trying to do in therapy.
I’m learning DBT and motivational interviewing right now. Everything has gone smoothly so far except for my anger management group. An incident happened that left me angrier than I have been in a while. Ironic. Not angry at a group member. Angry at the intern who took my group over while I was leading it. I was too angry to respond in an appropriate way for anger management group. Obviously, I still have a lot to learn.
Random:
1.) There were two Emancipation Proclamations
Current music fixation: Jack Savoretti
His version of Ring of Fire is beautiful.
To answer your question B, I guess I know he did, but I’m glad it wasn’t said.
