Personal inventory

If you’re going to be a good therapist - and I have confidence you will - you will have to know yourself. Before you launch your private practice - and every day thereafter - I encourage you to give thought to what it is that you’re bringing to the table: your interests, your knowledge of yourself, your life experience, your blind spots, your internal resources, and so on. The better an understanding you have of yourself, the more effectively you’ll be able to be present for your patients in the ways they need you to be.