Anyone else have a hard time doing therapy as a therapist?
Just started working with a new therapist after a few false starts last year. I've had two therapists now where me telling them I am a therapist made things difficult. One constantly asking me what I would do or say to a client in my situation, another making a lot of assumptions about what I "should" know or do. This time I haven't told them yet, but it's hard when I know and can tell they don't have as much experience as me. But then in the past I had an old guy with many decades of experience who wore therapist sweaters and had a wise grey beard and I thought he would be perfect but he fell asleep in two sessions! Is it that there's just a lot of mid therapists? Or just knowing how the sauce is made makes me too critical? Also, just a few things I've noticed so far that aren't deal breakers but have irked me and are maybe good pointers: Don't have your camera down at your chest so you're looming over me and I can see up your nose! (I thought we all knew this after the pandemic). Two-screen users: stay focused! Chill on the typing your notes and whatever you're doing on your other monitor, it's really easy to tell when you're looking elsewhere. Or at least tell your clients what you're doing. GAD7/PHQ9/whatever assessment in every session? I know it's a requirement for whatever org you work for but there's no benefit to this, no research I could find for validity for tracking progress this way, and it's just annoying. Anyway, how do y'all more experienced folks deal with your own therapy? Do you keep hunting for a great one or great fit even if it means a longer process? How do deal with lack of experience? I want to give less experienced therapists a chance because maybe they're good? but this has never worked out for me. Do I just deal with the one my insurance so carefully matched me with and make it work?