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[mllelaurel]

I hate, hate, hate transcription. If I ever make it to being a therapist, I'm so never using it. I don't care how useful it may be, I hate it.

Also, I'm of the personal belief that recording a session only serves to make the client uncomfortable, no matter how confidential the recording may be. Better to train one's listening and memory skills.

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[tiamatschild.livejournal.com]

Speaking as someone who is unembarrassed by voice recordings - yeah, I do think I'd have to have been working with a therapist for a while to be okay with that, and I might find it distracting in a stressful way anyway.

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

Likewise. And for all that I've done voice recordings for theatre, as a therapist, I think I'd find it distracting myself and wind up focusing more on what I'm saying than on what the client is saying, which kind of ruins the purpose of the session.

[freetobeme18.livejournal.com]

As a psychotherapy client, I completely agree with this.

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

I note that my first therapist, who was in training (and thus affordable) at the time, tape-recorded our sessions, and after the first couple of sessions, I forgot it was there. (And this in ye olden days of the big plastic cassette recorders, when she'd have to flip the tape halfway through.)