Category: career in therapy
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Unpacking Pain, Protests, and Providing Service
What’s A Therapist To Do When The World Is Amuck and YOU Still Need To Provide A Service? Years ago, I had an experience when my bad day turned into a bad week. I was in such a state of emotional pain and angst. I could not see anything beyond my well warranted emotions. While […]
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Disseminating the Science to Eradicate Social Injustices
Why the Science of ABA Doesn’t Reach and What We Should Do About It Sounds serious doesn’t it? Sounds like we are really about to make an impact. Sounds smart?!? There are so many good initiatives in our field that don’t have legs. I liken it to Preaching to The choir. The problem is that […]
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Why Coaching Matters in Leadership
Lessons from Life’s Last Dance from my coach, Robert H. Seals It’s no secret that most of the coaching I have ever found to be beneficial for my sustenance as a clinical leader has been outside the world of therapy. I have had my mother who spent year’s as a Chicago Public School teacher, I […]
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When Feedback Isn’t Elegant
Don’t Dismiss Corrective Feedback When the Packaging Doesn’t Meet Your Expectations…Decide to Grow Feedback. It’s the thing we want. But if we are honest, we don’t like feedback. At least the feedback that we haven’t crafted to meet our social-emotional needs of the day. If we are most honest, we want the feedback in a […]
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Reprioritizing Your Priorities as a Clinical Leader
For women…women clinical leaders who do too much…who are racing to do the next…who hold up the banner of collaboration not competition but feel race to show up…the women who demonstrate the need to prove their presence in the ever changing populous of ABA and other clinical leaders….I will impart to you the best advise I’ve ever been given.
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Do What You Can!
Whew Girl! It’s been quite a ride over here in these parts. And lovely at the same time. Is it Charles Dickens who wrote ‘It was the best of times and the worst of times’. I probably edge toward the middle most days. I appreciate homeschooling and remember a time that I committed to this […]
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When People Sigh…
*MALADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR IS CONTAGIOUS. AMYGDALA CONTROL NEEDED* Have you ever sighed at work? Have you ever walked into someone’s office and sighed? I have experienced both. When we sigh, it is usually a sign of being overwhelmed, overcapacity, frustrated, and perhaps annoyed. Two weeks ago, I sat across from a staff person when things were […]
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What Supervision Looks Like
While Supervision is now Protocol Modification from a medical insurance perspective. The art of what that is can be lost in the conundrum of a model. In truth, supervision better explains from a student-teacher relationship. In fact, it is better absorbed and gets to the foundation of the development of the next generation(s) of behavior analysts, RBTs, and clinicians.
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Managing Weariness in Clinical Leadership
When The Feeling of TOO MUCH visits and Stays a While A friend of mine told me I was ‘Managing Weariness’ as she responded to my Voxer message to her. In retrospect, maybe it was an SOS call on my part. But she responded and said “Landria like so many women (of color) you are […]
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Gossip? Gossip.
How Listening to People Complain About Your Competitors and Colleagues Promotes Gossip In Your Workplace. I recently reviewed the RBT Code of Ethics for a project and thought that this area under Responsible Conduct stood out. 1.03 RBTs are truthful and honest and create an environment that promotes truthful and honest behavior in others. They […]
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