"It's not what you do...it's what you do with what you do"

Dr. D. is guest blogging over at Plywood People again…

During my residency, it was not uncommon to find me sitting in my supervisor’s office, nursing a cup of coffee and pouring over a page of notes from a session I just finished. Most often I was positive that I had missed something, or that the intervention I had just implemented was the wrong one. After all, I was appropriately (or anxiously) feeling the weight of being a psychologist, soon to have Dr. in front of my name. How was I always supposed to know what the “right thing” to do was? My supervisor, whose voice I can still hear resonating in my mind, would smile a little smile, play with his pen a bit, and say “well you know…