Episode 1 The Impostor Syndrome Part 1 Hi there.
It wouldn’t be unusual if you are asking at this moment, “Have I come to the right podcast?” You’ve probably listened to a few podcasts. Gone to some training. Read some books. All those people sound pretty smart.
It’s exciting to learn new things, but maybe, like me, you have a little voice at the back of your mind telling you, “Hey there – hey it’s me again – see all of those other therapists out there? They look pretty accomplished, they’re all using evidence-based practice, they handle difficult moments in therapy with ease – look around you at all these professionals, you think you belong here?”
Your clients keep coming back, but that voice keeps telling you that you don’t know what you’re doing. School was pretty broad and left you feeling less prepared than you expected. And here you are, out in the world doing pscyhotherapy with real people. And at the end of each day you anxiously wonder when your clients are going to realize that you’re faking it. Maybe they will meet a real therapist at a party and the therapist will ask if you’re doing TFCBT with them, and then the jig will be up. Is that you?
Well, here’s what we have to say to you…
Welcome.
Welcome to the psychotherapy community. You wonderful, courageous, human being.
Welcome to Practice Imperfect.
Show Notes If you’re a psychotherapist and sometimes after a long day of seeing clients you lie in bed and think, “I have no idea what I’m doing,” then you’ve come to the right podcast. But, you know, not in the sense that we’re going to fix that. Welcome to Practice Imperfect.
In this episode we talk about the impostor syndrome: our shared experience of feeling like impostor psychotherapists, and why this might be prevalent in the field. Why does this feeling of inadequacy persist even when we do well? To what extent is this experience a normal and shared part of our humanity and, if so, how might we lean into it in our work? How many of us are hiding our feeling of being an impostor in our efforts to appear competent and fit in?
We discuss our own childhood memories of where our impostor syndromes may have begun. Dropping the pie, faking the flute, dorking the high school English class speech. We look at the intersection with codependency, how this drew us to the field, and the ways in which this might be a strength. We look at being real about our uncertainty, and recognize the courage it takes to do so. And we try to figure out our email address because we forgot to do that ahead of time.
We’re in this together.
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