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    Borderlines!

    Posted by: whattheh?
    Date: 8/19/2011 3:30:54 AM

    Dang it! I should have known better. I've got 20 years experience as a psychotherapist. I was hired away from a steady job to enter a private practice. Things started going sideways a couple of months in when the director started with splitting behaviors, back biting, and generally raising the level of hysteria in the office to a fevered pitch. I should have left then, but I didn't. Then, in a public meeting, I was dressed down and threatened. By next week, I was "laid off" but I think it was really "fired." I am interviewing for new positions, but am gun shy now. You would think that a PhD would have her stuff together, but that isn't always the case. It may be a long, long time before I go back into practice.

    Reply from: deassoc50
    Date: 8/28/2011 6:32:00 PM
    Reply: I wouldn't let a single incident get you down. It always takes two and sounds like the director was way out of line and didn't use appropriate behavior dynamics in a group setting. A meeting one on one outside of the group would have been the right approach. That person should have known better. Did they have any management training? Who does that person report to? I'd have a meeting with one of the principals and allow yourself to be heard. Otherwise, put it behind you and don't even give it a second thought. The director sounds like a whacko! Did you recommend anger management or counseling to that director??

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