Therapist Reflection

Thus far, I have learned many important aspects of becoming an effective therapist. One of the major parts of training involves evaluation and feedback from supervisors or peers. I think evaluations are an important part of training because it provides feedback to areas, which you are doing well in, and areas in which you will need improvement. I believe that without evaluations, we as therapist cannot grow into effective therapist. To date I cannot think of any job or career that does not use “end of the year evaluations”. This shows how important evaluations are for growth in your career. From my experience, I have enjoyed the receiving evaluations from professors and supervisors. It has helped me tremendously improve in my training. In …show more content…
I think there are still areas, I would like to improve in. specifically, learning to co-facilitate with my supervisor, learning to engage the client on a more deeper level, and implementing different techniques in therapy. The first one is important because, sometimes I find myself in-group nervous to say something or not knowing what to say. I have had talks about this in-group supervision, and I understand that co-facilitating is an art and it takes time to master. I am looking forward to growing more in this area, so I can feel more confident in having great sessions with my clients and my supervisor. The next area of improvement would be to lean from my supervisor ways to allow the client to dig deeper with different phrases and techniques. I think after observing her, I think she has the best way to phrase certain questions, which I would like to improve on. The last are of improvement is to be comfortable implementing other techniques from other modalities. Primarily we focus on DBT, however some of y clients are not as receptive to DBT, so I would love to gain more experience in using other modalities for these clients. I think I will always have areas I want to improve in, but I think these are the basic areas that will help me feel confident in my efficacy as a beginning