Random ass people open up to me. Potential tenants I show rooms to. People I meet in vacation. The gym. The grocery store. Is this my calling? I can't tell people to shut the fuck up and I look like I'm good at listening.
>>32335266Hopefully you got the time because it'll take a you while to become a therapist
>> people make small talk with me>> should I be a therapist Kek
People opening up to you, or even social ability (though while not necessarily a requirement, aptitude here can lend towards a good career, here) are good reasons to try to do this. Moreso, the clinical conversation isn't all that very similar even to something you might feel could be similar in your own experiences seeing yourself wondering if this might be a career option for you.You will have to earn at least a master's degree in any Western country for this. You will have to keep up to date on the literature for your modality. The path to becoming someone who walks into an office and sees a handful of clients and goes home at 5 or 6 PM is not one you will find right outside of graduate school, and oftentimes people at the master's and even doctoral levels will either splinter and find different areas like field work or assessment to specialize in while also doing or even oftentimes entirely dropping a therapy practice.But firstly, you must be someone who doesn't mind listening to the woes of people who will be very sensitively telling you just about anything you could think of for 45 minutes to an hour, and responding in ways that can be prescribed meaning canned in a way, and you will need to be someone who not only tends towards not being judgmental, but who can confidently assume anyone who walks into their therapy room--quite literally any possible person--will be able to be received without judgment, be looked at by someone who has advanced listening capability and training, who no matter what the client's predispositions, biases, hatreds, preferences--the therapist will be able to see them in a caring capacity and genuinely help them in matters inter/intrapersonal, and will be able to take the "bigger person" stance for years and years potentially with them.It's not something you can just go take a bunch of classes and be able to do, and many students will even go through an advanced degree program just to find out it isn't possible
>>32335325>People opening up to you, or even social ability (though while not necessarily a requirement, aptitude here can lend towards a good career, here) are good reasons to try to do this.**aren't
>>32335266>Random ass people open up to me.People do this to my wife too. We could be out walking the dog and a random stranger will start talking about their apartment hunting problems.>Is this my calling?Maybe. The important thing for therapists is to protect yourself from other's problems. You are only going to be talking to people with problems. You need a barrier so their problems don't affect your mental well being.My wife can't do this. So she works a receptionist/call center job. Not a high pressure, high call volume one. One where she's allowed to take her time while people get together the documentation they need for the service she's booking.
>>32335412Oh it will affect you. You just need to immediately and meaningfully detach from your work the moment you leave the office. Many therapists see therapists themselves, often because of the high stress-load that comes with seeing people in a care capacity which takes a huge emotional toll. Taking measures to care for your own mind is a necessity if you want to be able to function properly while being a therapist, notwithstanding being effective as well, even if you don't have some inherent mental problem--which many therapists do... but, if you can't learn to differentiate between life inside and outside the office, you won't be able to perform talk therapy as a career.
>>32335323Telling me about thier divorce and friends death is small talk? Being lonely bc no friends? Suicidal thoughts? Alright nvm then.
>>32335504People are gonna piss you off and you'll have to grin and bear it. These people will not be your friends and may make up a larger portion of your client base. You will be unlikely to find their thoughts alluring or interesting in the vast majority of cases if you run a full time private practice
>>32335325>needing a masters degree to listen to people and give them adviceOH SAY CAN YOU SEEEEE
>>32335563You don't always need to. In Brazil and some other countries you can be an accredited mental health practitioners with even just a Bachelors degree, sometimes even less. We know about organization/affiliations like life-coaching or even, say, psychics who sometimes do similar things, but there's an area of effectiveness that's scientifically proven to have reliability under the arm of someone who knows what's they're doing, and that's in accredited, highly educated fields like counseling, mental health therapy and clinical psychology. There's no doubt there's not zero potential for someone to be effective under a life coach role but there are people who even most of the time will have just as much social talent, reasoning ability, experience breadth, and training who are licensed practitioners of therapy modalities like CBT or DBT for example--not even considering the potential for things like EMDR which, while not accounted for thru scientific rigor, many practitioners maintain works in their experience.So yeah if you want to help people and you have the mojo it takes to make that happen and to reach a point you can making an honest living out of it, that's not out of the realm of what's feasibly possible today, but many people OP go through methods available through avenues traditionally pursued by people who choose this path within the dominant world culture
>>32335421>Many therapists see therapists themselves, often because of the high stress-loadthey have therapists because they're fucking crazy themselves and shouldnt be listened to for any advice they give. one of the reasons they learned to be a therapist was to diagnose and understand their own mental illness. and these days they're tranny factories too
>>32335608Well no yeah, it's true people get into it with the pretense of having issues themselves. However these people are often filtered out by the time they end up spending money getting an education for it. Professors won't even tell them it's useless just being there looking to fix themselves and in the same bid become someone who can fix others. There's a higher rate of therapists who struggle with mental issues themselves, but it's not always true. Sometimes people study psychology or social work because it's interesting to them or because their heart is in it, and they end up being a therapist somewhere along the way in their path. If a therapist is in the middle of a psychotic episode or dealing with an active symptom personality disorder it is not unlikely they shouldn't be practicing or at least should maybe take a vacation, but to say that someone being given treatment for an illness, say schizophrenia, in ways that are effective enough to where they can perform the duties of maybe a psychologist for example, it's something they can do unhindered so there's no reason they shouldn't be able to see clients. There's some pop cultural designation for what a therapist can look like a lot of the time that is in reality something people find kind of mysterious or esoteric. Like, what does a therapist look like? The truth about that and what they do is not straight forward--it's a job most people can take up for themselves if they first meet the requirements
I'm just gonna tell everyone they're trans and to cut off their dick or ovaries
Before you can become a therapist you will have to have become a psychologist, and that means spending 4 years in graduate school for a highly academic and specialized field to get a PhD (you can get away with a masters in some specialties but the pay will be terrible) followed by at least a year of apprenticeship and testing for the licensure process.
People do this to me too. I still think being a therapist would be terrible.
>>32335700Weird, all my therapists seemed like morons
The RAPIST
>>32335700In some locations like the united states the pay isn't all that dissimilar and can depend on the skill of the therapist, which you can get from a master's degree and reach the skill level of a typical professional in the field in a few years. A big benefit of doctoral training in psychology as a practitioner is ability to do assessment work, which can be much more lucrative than therapy. This all differs to different degrees by location but you can actually do therapy work without any degree at all, where some places you can work as a drug and alcohol counselor with just a certificate, which aims to recognize the value of knowledge of people who have had a long history of addiction but who've beaten it and have experience to share. Anyway clinical psychology is a highly competitive field and if you want to become a therapist a master's degree is sufficient for all the training you need to get started. The skill gap in beginning therapists with a master's compared to a doctorate comes from the big difference in time it takes to complete the doctoral degree.>>32335713They want just to swindle you for as long as they can keep you giving them your money. They think you're retarded and also talk about you to other clients where they refer to you by your complete name
>>32335737I wouldn't care if they did, I didn't tell them anything critical, the dumb fucks
>>32335770You win this time
>>32335700Lol. They dont even get graded most times anymore. My ex's professor didnt believe in grades so everyone passed even those who couldnt spell. All you need is time now
>>32335266Thank you random Butch Lesbian Stoner,idk maybe. Worth a shot if you can make money doing it.
>>32335504Yes, that is all small talk given the context. A potential tenant is going to tell you about their sob story because they want the place and a good deal. People on vacation or at the grocery store, or other random places are going to tell a stranger shit for the same reason you chose to ask this question here instead of asking your friends or family who actually know you. Because by telling a stranger you're unlikely to ever see again, it's easier to dump whatever is bothering you. Everyone does this. Everyone experiences this. You aren't special. I was standing at the crosswalk waiting to cross the road just an hour ago and the lady waiting next to me decided to unload about how her dog just died. It's unremarkable behaviour.
>>32335958People I know too Friend told me he cheated on his wife, another told me his dad was a rapist, etc Things they don't tell anyone else
