#lmft

[thistherapylife]

[dahackedaccount]

Gonna celebrate this moment 🌟

[ladylore97]

Hi! Congrats on becoming a LMFT! Were you an AMFT before that? If so, would you mind if I asked what the transition from AMFT->LMFT looked like? Did you have to complete a practicum?

(Sorry just catching up on messages!) Thanks so much anon! I WAS an AMFT before getting licensed! Typically after graduating from a master's program, graduates will go from being "trainees" (still in school) and then apply to be "associates" (basically a verification that you graduated, completed the preliminary amount of hours seeing clients, and passed a thorough background check). Once you're an associate, it takes an average of 2-6 years of practicum to become fully licensed, sometimes longer. The number of client hours you have to have will vary state by state, and they'll require you to see certain types of clients to force you to get experience with a wide variety of people. Before becoming licensed, you have to take two big tests: a law and ethics exam and the clinical exam. The clinical exam is therapist's version of "the bar." Turn in all the documentation tracking how many sessions you had every week, pass that nasty bitch, and pay your state's certifying board to give you a license number! Voila, you have turned A Mother Fucking Therapist into a Legit Mother Fucking Therapist!

[ramyeonupdates]

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[sawmestarttobelieve]

The International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI) has created a website, freepsychotherapybooks.org where there is free downloading of titles in psychotherapy, psychiatry and psychoanalysis.

So, I found this website connected via healthysex.com, which is site created by Wendy Maltz, an LCSW, LMFT, DST, who practices as a psychotherapist, sex therapist, and is an author. It has a lot of content on sex, sexuality, healthy sexuality, love relationships. I’ve only been able to poke around it a bit.

Since my practicum is at a sexual violence victim/survivor crisis center, I wanted to look into some of her books and resources for treating the effects of sexual trauma.

Anyway, turns out that one of her books was available for free, and it linked to this site! I haven’t had a chance to see what else is on this site, but this seems like a great resource for counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists, etc.

@minipsychologist Not sure if you’ve seen this before, but I thought I’d share with you, for obvious reasons :) 

[creativeplaytherapist]

Attention Los Angeles Child Therapists:

We are starting a branch of my group practice that will focus on child and adolescent therapy.  If anyone wants more information please let me know!

[badasstherapist]

When one family member interrupts the quiet family member during a family session, I’m just like

[thistherapylife]

Welcome back to school, therapists