Hi @Catcakes,

Volunteering and violining went well today, thanks for asking. 

TTT worked with youth in out-of-home care before she went into private practice, and this remains an area of interest for her (she is currently doing her phd in that area). Consequently, she is passionate about attachment-based issues and complex trauma. This is what drew me to her.

She is one of those rare clinicians who is as interested in research (both reading it and contributing to it) as she is in practice. I think one of the reasons it is so hard to find helpful helping people is that most clinicians don't seem to keep abreast of current research. It's like...they are "people people" and tend not to be research/academic/book-type people, if that makes sense (I can't quite think of the word I'm looking for). I think the truly great clinicians are those who know how much they don't know and are therefore constantly hungry to learn more. It seems to me that there are a lot of clinicians out there who only do the bare minimum of "professional development" that they are required to do to maintain registration, and they see even that as an annoying inconvenience. 

This is of course all just the humble opinion of one little muddled turtle.