Victor Yalom, PhD, is the founder, CEO and resident cartoonist of Psychotherapy.net, producers and publishers of over 300 training videos in the fields of counseling, psychotherapy, social work, and addiction treatment. He maintained a full time practice psychology practice in San Francisco for over 25 years, and currently continues to co-lead a psychotherapy group and see occasional clients. He has conducted workshops in existential-humanistic and group therapy in the US, Mexico, and China. He has produced over 75 training videos, and continues to be inspired the many master therapists he has been privileged to work with, including existential-humanistic psychologist James Bugental, and his father Irvin Yalom. In his spare time he enjoys painting, welding, woodwork, and most recently table-tennis (having migrated off the tennis court after developing tennis elbow). More information on Victor and his artwork is at sfpsychologist.com.
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I’m a graduate student in the internship phase of my training in a CACREP accredited program to become a Licensed Professional Counselor. I wanted to comment on the observation of self and others in training that was brought up in this podcast. I have had several classes: Basic Techniques, Intermediate Methods, and Practicum where recording sessions and observing classmates was part of the requirement. We also had to do some transcription and analysis of some of our recordings in these classes, as well as offer feedback to others. So some of that is currently happening in training. My internship however is much more of the model that Dr. Yalom mentioned where I have sessions with clients on my own and later report what I did to my supervisor–which is kind of like the painting analogy. This podcast was very helpful for me, thank you Dr. Dave and Dr. Yalom for this conversation.