Rough Week
This week has been kind of a rough one. I've been distracted and I don't think I've been much help to my clients. Today I did have two new clients, which I found interesting. I had an adolescent client and a female client. I've never had an adolescent client before, so this should be interesting. He seemed like a likeable kid. I met his parents and stepmother in the first session. He's only fifteen years old. He seems nice and a bit shy. Very low self confidence apparently. But then again, don't all teenagers have that problem? I'm a little nervous about working with him. The rules are different with him than they are with all my other clients. The rules of confidentialy are different, of course. And my language has to be a bit different. I can't just assume he has all the knowledge about sex that my adult clients have. Just because he's a sex offender does not mean he knows everything there is to know about sex. His vocabulary is going to be different too. Of course, I have other (adult) clients who sometimes act as if their mental growth was pretty much stunted at age thirteen. Anyway, it will be a nice change of pace from my regular clients. That goes for the femal client as well. I don't necessarily consider her a predator by what she did (I'll save you the details), but there's still a lot of good stuff to work on. Keeps me on my toes to have to develop new sets of treatment plans for new types of clients that I've never dealt with before.
I'm having a hard time with my schedule. I just got a bunch of new clients that I will be taking over in a few weeks and my schedule will be pretty packed. The problem is that they have very fixed schedukes so I can't just move them to whatever time I want. So my days are getting pretty full and it's getting pretty hard to set aside time for me. It was relatively easy because of the downtime between clients to set aside time for me to work out or run errands or whatever. I'm feeling a little panicked. I will have to deal with it as it comes.
I'm having a hard time with my schedule. I just got a bunch of new clients that I will be taking over in a few weeks and my schedule will be pretty packed. The problem is that they have very fixed schedukes so I can't just move them to whatever time I want. So my days are getting pretty full and it's getting pretty hard to set aside time for me. It was relatively easy because of the downtime between clients to set aside time for me to work out or run errands or whatever. I'm feeling a little panicked. I will have to deal with it as it comes.