• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Tony White

Psychologist

  • Home
  • Profile
    • Professional History
    • Professional Services
    • About Me
    • Training & Work Background
  • Books
  • Journals
  • Blogs
  • Monograph Series
  • Home
  • Profile
    • Professional History
    • Professional Services
    • About Me
    • Training & Work Background
  • Books
  • Journals
  • Blogs
  • Monograph Series

How I became a child psychotherapist

August 4, 2021 //  by Tony White//  2 Comments

This photograph was taken at the book launch of my book on AOD. Three therapists all sitting together. The woman on the left was a psychologist who worked for many years. She specialised in working with children. After I completed my psychology degree I was fortunate enough for her to take me on as an ‘apprentice’. Which was very kind of her and it was a once in a  life time opportunity to get some gold standard training in child psychotherapy. 

I came and worked at her play therapy institute for two years and her approach was a psychoanalytic one. So not only did I get training in working with children, I also got to see the psychoanalytic approach in practice.

It also had another effect in that it impacted my understanding and psychotherapy with adults. Given the opportunity to see children in a therapy setting for two years, learning about their psyche and how it works of course gave me an excellent understanding of how the Child ego state works in all of us. I watched the raw Child ego state in front of me for two years, how it thinks, feels and behaves

Put a child under stress and and it will have to adjust its psyche and its perception of self and others in some way. One has seek to understand that adjustment then you will know the motivation and agendas of that person (as a child and later as an adult)

 

 

 

Much of the work was in the group therapy setting so I also saw children interacting with each other. Again I saw how the Child ego state interacts with others in a raw form. This of course allows me to understand adults better when they are interacting. Of course their interactions are also mainly governed by their Child ego states but unlike children they can encrypt what their Child ego state says and does with the Adult and Parent ego states.

What a psychotherapist with adults must do is break the encryption of the Child ego state therefore allowing the therapist to see and understand the real motives and agendas of the client.

Category: child development, Child ego stateTag: Child psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, training

Previous Post: « Consent and power in relationships.
Next Post: Deconfusion of the Child ego state »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Kahless

    August 4, 2021 at 6:47 am

    Solving an encryption? That makes your work sound really interesting – I like solving things so maybe I chose the wrong profession 😂😂😂
    Could you give an example of an encryption to bring what you mean to life?
    Also, this may be how long is a piece of string type question… you say “Of course their interactions are also mainly governed by their Child ego states”. What proportion of interactions come from what ego state – any analysis done on this?

    Reply
  2. Joseph

    November 17, 2021 at 4:24 pm

    I am also working with children but in family therapy. I see way too many parents who are willing to bring in the child for me to fix him. I don’t believe that the child is broken, that’s why I am doing systemic family therapy in these kind of situations. Of course, everything is mixed with a bit of transactional analysis. 🙂

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Website Re-build

The website is being rebuilt at the moment. Thank you for your patience and many apologies for any inconvenience.

Recent Posts

  • Deconfusion of the Child ego state
  • Deconfusion of the Child ego state
  • How I became a child psychotherapist
  • Consent and power in relationships.
  • Silence and the unconscious – Part 2
  • Silence and the unconscious
  • Silence in psychotherapy
  • Permission and redecision
  • Mature love, immature love and the teenager
  • Embrace the homeless
  • Psychology of the court process
  • Psychic organs to ego states
  • Regression – defence mechanism & natural human process
  • Two types or levels of life script change
  • Identification – Post 2
  • Identification – Post 1
  • Self control. Therapeutic implications
  • Adult ego state strengthening – Post 4
  • Adult ego state strengthening – Post 3
  • Adult ego state strengthening – post 2

Recent Comments

  • Irina on Social development – History taking
  • Joseph on How I became a child psychotherapist
  • Kahless on The Demon sub personality (Aka Lillith)
  • Kahless on How I became a child psychotherapist
  • Kahless on Consent and power in relationships.
  • Tony White on Consent and power in relationships.
  • Kahless on Consent and power in relationships.
  • Kahless on Silence and the unconscious – Part 2
  • Kahless on Silence and the unconscious
  • Kahless on Silence and the unconscious

Blog Archive

  • December 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • February 2021
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • January 2020
  • September 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • November 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • January 2014
  • December 2013
  • August 2013

Copyright © 2023 · Mai Lifestyle Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in