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Over the last 10 years interest in therapy has boomed, and with the greater demand for therapists more people than ever are considering pursuing a career in mental health. On today\u2019s episode Forrest speaks to five therapists and therapists-in-training to learn the lessons they wish they\u2019d known when they started.\xa0\nYou can watch this episode on YouTube.\nKey Topics:\n0:00: Intro\n2:15: Rick Hanson\n5:05: Key traits of good therapists\n17:50: Questions a prospective therapist might not think to ask\n25:00: Self-employement, emotional regulation, and boundaries\n27:45: Efficacy, complacency, and respecting the craft\n31:45: Lori Gottlieb\n35:20: Emotional intimacy and human connection\n38:50: Modalities\xa0\n40:50: Vulnerability, uncertainty, and making mistakes\n48:10: Terry Real\n52:45: Learning how to heal yourself first\n55:35: What therapy is actually like\n59:30: Messiness\n1:03:15: Elizabeth Ferreira\n1:06:35: Somatics, and being yourself\n1:11:50: How to suffer with someone, then let it move through you\n1:16:45: Awareness and the bravery of owning what\u2019s in the room\n1:21:15: Chaos, and loving yourself\n1:27:45: Taylor Banfield\n1:34:00: Sitting with a client for the first time\n1:37:45: Choosing a specific career path\n1:39:10: Boundaries\n1:43:15: Recap\nAbout our Guests: Rick Hanson is a psychologist, Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley\u2019s Greater Good Science Center, New York Times best-selling author, and frequent guest on Being Well.\nLori Gottlieb is a practicing therapist in Los Angeles, and is the author of the bestseller Maybe You Should Talk to Someone.\nTerry Real is a longtime clinician, the founder of the Relational Life Institute, and bestselling author of a number of books including Us: Getting Past You & Me to Build a More Loving Relationship.\nElizabeth Ferreira is an associate somatic psychotherapist working in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you\u2019d like to work with Elizabeth, you can reach out to her through her website or Instagram.\xa0\nTaylor Banfield is a graduate student in the PsyD program at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California.\xa0\nSupport the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link.\nSponsors:\nFactor delivers fresh, never-frozen, fully prepared meals right to your door. Head to factormeals.com/beingwell50 and use code beingwell50 to get 50% off!\nFinally get that project off the ground with Squarespace! Head to squarespace.com/beingwell for a free trial, and when you\u2019re ready to launch use coupon code BEINGWELL to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain.\nJoin over a million people using BetterHelp, the world\u2019s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month!\nWant to sleep better? Try the Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription.\nConnect with the show:\n\nSubscribe on iTunes\n\nFollow Forrest on YouTube\n\nFollow us on Instagram\n\nFollow Forrest on Instagram\n\nFollow Rick on Facebook\n\nFollow Forrest on Facebook\n\nVisit Forrest's website