Curt and Katie talk about Person of the Therapist training. We talk about a revolutionary training model that starts with who a therapist is and what will come up for them as a therapist – rather than setting unreasonable expectations of blank, neutral, perfect therapists.
It’s time to reimagine therapy and what it means to be a therapist. To support you as a whole person and a therapist, your hosts, Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy talk about how to approach the role of therapist in the modern age.
In this episode we talk about:
- Person of the Therapist training – addressing the whole person therapist
- The work of Dr. Harry Aponte at Drexel University
- Looking at how pulling from your own history can impact how you approach the work in the room
- The importance of finding your own personal themes and challenges, owning your own story
- Innovative classes that start graduate programs with personal growth and insight
- Normalizing reactions and individual differences from the beginning of our education
- How close the line can be between education and therapy
- The fallacy that therapists can be blank or neutral
- The drive toward Evidence Based Practices
- The depth of supervision that occurs when focusing on the person of the therapist
- The problem of siloed areas of the field and how bringing it back into the same room
- The vulnerability required for the depth of this work
- The ability to increase maturity of the therapist more quickly through this type of work
- The importance of structure and containment to do this type of work
- Teaching self-awareness and self-monitoring
- The power of building supportive community to do work more in the open, to decrease shame and perfectionism
- Learning how to give respectful, structured, effective feedback – exercising your empathy muscle
- How building resilience and connection can improve the profession as a whole
- Increasing distress tolerance and capacity for taking feedback
- Looking at the benefit of doing this work at all stages in your career
Resources mentioned:
We’ve pulled together resources mentioned in this episode and put together some handy-dandy links.
Dr. Harry J Aponte
Person of the Therapist Training Model by Dr. Harry Aponte
Claudio & Watson: Perceived impact of the Person of the Therapist Training model on Drexel University Master of Family Therapy postgraduates’ clinical work
Kissil, Carneiro, & Aponte: Beyond duality: The relationship between the personal and the professional selves of the therapist in the Person of the Therapist Training
Watson: Doing it right: Branding the Person of the Therapist Training model in Drexel University’s Master of Family Therapy program
Aponte & Ingram: Person of the Therapist supervision: Reflections of a therapist and supervisor on empathic-identification and differentiation
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