Self-disclosure (from your citations): considered very tricky for therapists too! I would rather use myself as an example (when I think it will help a client understand something--analogies are good!) than say "I once knew someone..." or "I once had a client who..."
I think that is a completely reasonable thing in session. I imagine there's actually a different standard for media and journalism, even if the person writing or being interviewed happens to be a therapist. There is a different choice in the moment, in the room, with a patient, and frankly I'd much rather them know in advance because I spent the time crafting a story that let them know it was OK to disclose in their session to make the choice to take their session to tell them about me. I thought about this a lot, and much of it has to do with suicide risk reduction in health professionals as a line of inquiry. It's an incredibly delicate topic. But I do think there's something different about being public about a disability versus having to bring it up in your session. So that's one of the reasons I chose to address it in this manner, because it doesn't take up the session time of any patient, and if they want to know, they can. Feel free to chime in when it comes to your thoughts about this dichotomy?
Congratulations, you prolific devil ❤️
Got to do something with all that nervous energy
Self-disclosure (from your citations): considered very tricky for therapists too! I would rather use myself as an example (when I think it will help a client understand something--analogies are good!) than say "I once knew someone..." or "I once had a client who..."
I think that is a completely reasonable thing in session. I imagine there's actually a different standard for media and journalism, even if the person writing or being interviewed happens to be a therapist. There is a different choice in the moment, in the room, with a patient, and frankly I'd much rather them know in advance because I spent the time crafting a story that let them know it was OK to disclose in their session to make the choice to take their session to tell them about me. I thought about this a lot, and much of it has to do with suicide risk reduction in health professionals as a line of inquiry. It's an incredibly delicate topic. But I do think there's something different about being public about a disability versus having to bring it up in your session. So that's one of the reasons I chose to address it in this manner, because it doesn't take up the session time of any patient, and if they want to know, they can. Feel free to chime in when it comes to your thoughts about this dichotomy?