5 Minute Therapy Tips - Episode 21: Therapist Development - How to Be the Best Therapist

One of the most important things to me is therapist development. How can we help people to be the best therapist? Now you can read books about how to do therapy. You can go to workshops about how to do therapy. You can learn research about how to do therapy. But how to be the best therapist - that’s something that’s not easy to learn from books or research or theories - that’s something that you do by virtue of setting in motion a series of practice exercises that help you to be better at who you are.

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with Jeff Zeig, PhD

Presented by:
The Milton H. Erickson Foundation

Sponsored by:
Evolution of Psychotherapy 2017
December 13-17, 2017

Images:
Andreas Steiner

[user]

not me on my birthday watching this so i can give therapy to my friends

[MissTXTee]

Wow! I wish my professors were as eloquent as Dr. Zeig! Such a a great educator...

[Bxttrfyx]

As a 13 year old girl, i'd like to open someone's eyes one day. I'd like to help someone with their struggles the best way I can. I have a really kind heart. For a person with bad thoughts and sad times, I wish for others to not feel that way, the same way I tend to do sometimes. I am told I help a lot of people with how they're feeling, but i'd like to do better. I'd like to prepare myself for when i'm older to face someone with the problems I once had or worse. In order to do so, I really want to learn how to help people more, face to face, since i'm normally good at helping people through text. This video is really helpful, so thanks to the creators of this, for helping others out to make them the best therapist and/or helper they can possibly be!

[LexiconDisgrced]

My friends expect me to be their therapist, for some reason they trust me enough to open up. I might as well be a good listener

[Christ_Is_Life-]

I think figurative speech is. Dry important. The use of language is an art. Who would have thought that people could feel better from having a therapeutic conversation?

[nayeliburnias]

Hi thank you for the tips I want to start now at 11 so win i become older I can get better
and thank you again

[bellct]

I’m 13. I want to be a therapist when I grow up. I listen t9 my friends stuggles and try to help them the best I can. I have lots of trauma and I don’t want anyone to be sad in life, I have always been an optimist and have found light in dark places in my life. I see now that can be happy in bad situations. I’m going through one now, but I realized it’s not bad. It’s a good thing.

[HanzHavemann]

Im only 11 but i helped my friend with depression anxiety and anger. I want to be a therapist so i can help people. And things

[natgreen]

I would love to be the best therapist, o want to help . Thank you for your channel

[yukeroinactivated]

Being a teen therapist, just helping friends and family and online friends.

[gogywhipgogywhip]

My friends having a mental break down so yeah lemme just watch some tutorials and then fail and use comedy skills I’ve developed through child hood trauma to make her feel better 😘

[ommindcare]

Joseph Conrad has always had a special place; though, apparently, he might not be so popular among all. Just realised one of the important reasons....He's a Master of recursions. Long recursions, lyrical recursions, sublime recursions.

[ilovemyboyfriend]

A few months back I was trying to be a therapist but no one came to my therapy club except my best friend who was supporting me now that I think of it it’s actually very sad 😔

[redneckrhymes]

I have always been a good listener, and when someone comes to me they often just want to open up to me and with my life experiences it gives me prospectives other don’t have. And often times I somehow help them. Idk how bit I’m looking to learn about therapy possibly even do it full time if I get a license

[marianzefferer-nlp]

Awesome pictures in the beginning. Thanks for Sharing!

[kjy]

Hi Dr. Zeig, I'm 16 years old and for around eleven months now I finally realized that being a therapist/clinical psychologist is my dream job. I did AP Psychology and got a 5, but is there anything I can do to help me be a therapist at my age (other than focusing on high school and going to university of course)? And can these videos really help me out?

[thecoolaxolotlnova]

105'th minute of therapist tips...

[abe_ismain]

Did you serve in military that’s how I start a therapy session

[CreatorProductionsOriginal]

Me actually watching this to make a good therapist character

[rachelhamidou]

I invite the loud music truck driver to come visit me. Its for therapeutic reasons