025: Feeling Ineffective Without Calling Yourself a Failure

About this episode

Roy Kim and Eunhyey Lok discuss the challenges of feeling ineffective as therapists and the impact on self-worth.

In this episode, I sit down with my friend Eunhyey Lok to explore the familiar experience of feeling we're not being effective for our struggling client. It's so easy to attach our self worth to our effectiveness, isn't it? This is where the concept and reality of limits comes in full force. They may talk about it in grad school, but actually confronting it is something else. We hope you enjoy the episode and feel seen. Eunhyey Lok's website: https://www.eunhyeylok.com New Therapist FAQ on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/newtherapistfaq/⁠⁠⁠ New Therapist FAQ on Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/ntfaqpodcast⁠⁠⁠

People in this episode

Guest: Eunhyey Lok

Topics covered

• self-worth
• effectiveness
• limits
• client struggles

Keywords

• therapy
• mental health
• professional development

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