13 - Vetting Clients and Trusting Instinct

Dr. T and The Truth Fairy welcome special guests Night Owl and Aqua Belle, friends and therapeutic colleagues of The Truth Fairy, to the show to talk about how they approach the vetting of clients. Dr. T takes the hosting lead in this conversation on the process of choosing which clients to work with. Aqua Belle and Night Owl both share how important instinct is to the vetting process. Despite having a drive and desire to just help people, not every client will be right. Meeting the client’s needs may require a different therapist and both guests describe having an internal sense of whether or not they feel they will be able to collaborate and establish trust with the client. Listening to their instincts is an important part of the decision. The discussion Dr. T has with Truth Fairy, Aqua Belle, and Night Owl explores vetting clients based on existing medicine complications, a client’s willingness to do the preparation and work, how comfortable the exchanges between the therapist and client are, how immediately the client pushes for psychedelics, and truly trusting therapeutic and personal instincts. Each guest shares revealing stories and the motivations behind their chosen modalities in this insightful conversation. “When I first started working with psychedelics, as you know, there are a lot of people that would like to have the experience. And at first, and of course wanting to help and serve because it was so amazing for me, and wanting to continue to offer that, what I did feel was I've come to understand who I would be best for and who would be best for me. And I do find, because it's such a relational thing, I feel that that's really important.” -  Aqua BelleResources discussed in this episode:Shamanic healing“Nurturing Resilience: Helping Clients Move Forward from Developmental Trauma” by Kathy L. Kain & Stephen J. TerrellSharon Stanley---Punk Therapy: website |email Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.