@charlottedavey3167
I'm in my early days of training to be a Counselling Psychologist and I have been feeling a bit lost with where I should be at this stage. It's so refreshing to see such an authentic video of a professional who is trying to figure it out, making mistakes and constantly learning. It has really given me the confidence to accept my own fallibility in this learning process. I hope you continue to make these videos, Mick. So interesting to hear your reflections.
@Eidixiaoandbdm
psychology student here, thank you! i don’t get a lot of practice or demonstration in my classes yet so these videos really help!
@emmetholohan6353
Tara was so good seeing that she was acting. Seemed like a genuine session
@gulliver7419
I love the level of practicalness and authenticity of this video. It was very helpful, thank you.
@persistencemagaya1101
This video has been so helpful for my own sef confidence, I am a trainee therapist and seeing a professional make mistakes and be open and reflective helps to take the pressure off a little bit. thank you for being so authentic!
@franklinval608
Hey Mick, I wanted to drop you a quick note to say thanks for sharing your thoughts. I really enjoyed listening to you talk about the things you would have said differently. It was encouraging and reassuring to know that even with your experience and knowledge, you still acknowledge that things can be imperfect. Keep up the great work!
@avihalberthal3898
Absolutely great demonstration of skills, so helpful, thanks!! Can you make more of those please??
@kendallsaxton6994
Thank you Mick and Tara, just beginning skills sessions and this really helped put my mind a little more at ease!
@fabriciacucco
Oh my. Poor girl. I went through the same situation as her and discovered that they did not deserve my friendship. Learned to love myself in the first place and developed real deep and caring new relationships. So worthy going through that.
@jaszi33
Thank you Mick, I appreciate your candid honesty about your practice and delivery. A very helpful session to watch and you've got a new subscriber, as I follow my path to becoming a counsellor.
@MarkMcDermottOtismojo
Thanks for this, Mick. I really like this because you're showing true congruence in every sense - that an experienced practitioner such as yourself still struggles at times to connect with the client and with their phenomenology. There's hope for us all...!!
@Elaine-tk7nx
This is such a helpful video, Mick, and I learnt so much from your honest self-appraisal and particularly underlining the mechanism of your thought process, like looking under the bonnet of a car! I like the way you follow Tara’s reflections and I particularly like the image of the spiral which perfectly sums up the process of gradually honing in on a client’s core feelings. I am in my final year of a Level 4 Diploma in Integrative Counselling and watching your videos is immensely helpful to my learning. Here are my thoughts on the video: I sense a contradiction at the heart of what Tara is saying - she has expressed her hurt that her friends seem to have excluded her and seems to base this on some insecurities about her personality, ie not being fun enough (for example). However, she also feels that she has not challenged her friends enough about ways they have acted (she does not define this) and needs to “call them out” on their behaviour but fears that, by doing so, she risks alienating them further and yet she has already said that they are not including her in activities. Her fears seem to stem from a basic sense of not being “good enough” to retain friends and that she needs to find a way to hold on to friends. Her belief that making friends at uni is hard also struck me as an uncompromising phrase, and I wondered what a gentle challenge such as: “I’m curious as to why you feel it would be hard to make friends at uni” would produce. Does she mean, rather, that fears SHE will find it hard to make friends and is this an example of her core belief about herself? She bats away your suggestion that she is “caring” and it reveals a fear that, no matter how caring she may be, her friends have alienated her, so perhaps she too does not value such a quality in herself if it does not attract friends. The overall impression I get from what she is expressing emotionally is that she is trying to find a key to fit the friendship lock. If only she could find what it is, she could solve the puzzle. Deep down, she seems to be expressing an implicit belief that others have something to offer that she does not. Perhaps it is simply that she is not attracting the friends that value her and this is what she is working out - how to remain true to herself and accept that not everyone will want her as she is, but that it is entirely possible for her to make connections with people who will value and love her for herself.
@katjabaghai-ravary9783
This is really helpful, not just for new counsellors.
@mos.8350
This is so helpful - as a student starting out on my 100hrs of supervised counselling this video is immensely helpful in seeing examples and the understanding behind the process. Vulnerabilities and all - Thank you.
@subhasharma4425
Thank you for existing and showing me a good example. My intuition always picks up empathy and I am so glad to meet a very humane psychologist. Your humility is inspiring for a new counselor. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@gabrielaortiz3690
Please do more like this. Very helpful
@kierancbr600
Thanks Mick for another insightful video, as someone starting out I'm still in the rescuer thinking but it's really grounding to hear your thoughts and advice. Love that ending statement we're not necessarily there to be the savior but rather helping the client by being a catalyst for change.
@yanfenhuang3760
6’24”,I think THE SMILE is very genuine, in the sense that: mentioning her friends is something that makes her happy, as versus to earlier talking about stressful exams!
@imranlakhi903
This is really helpful, am studying level 2 in counselling am a new student, I like how you were moving away from the more structural method, and focused on a conversation, I like this method
@shannonw7315