I super need to debrief. I just had a tutoring session with one of my stats clients. She was expressing frustration about the fact that she wants to learn DBT but the practice manager where she is doing her placement just brushes her off telling her that no one actually LEARNS how to do DBT, they just do it by themselves in their own practice. My client was saying how that isn't ok by her and she wants to learn how to do it properly, especially for when working with BPD clients.
It was so so SO hard. On the bright side, it is super cool that she personally recognises how not ok it is for psychologists to play around with therapies they aren't properly trained in, and I was also extremely relieved that she didn't say anything derogatory about people with BPD. Methinks she is definitely one of the "good guys," but she is hamstrung by the absurd situation whereby psychologists don't actually learn how to be psychologists at uni - and she is doing her masters to become a clinical psychologist!!! No doubt she will at some point invest in training in her particular areas of interest, paying for it out of her own pocket (which explains in part why psychologists are so darn expensive).
It makes me SO angry the way people pay psychologists a bazillion dollars assuming they know what they are doing, when in reality, a lot of them simply don't. It terrifies me that society sets them up as "experts" when really so many of them are just making stuff up as they go along. I super like this client and the mere fact that she sees her lack of knowledge as a problem, tells me that she is one of the good guys. 
@Former-Member @NikNik @Former-Member
