Blog #5

 During this week I took more of a receptionist type of role so I gather information through talking to incoming patients before they met with Dr. Turner. It initially started with me sparking small talk with them. Asking questions such as "how has your day been?" and "any positive experiences happen over this past week". Just small questions to brighten the mood of incoming patients, while also making the office feel like a more welcoming environment. This is important as sharing your traumatic experiences can be extremely hard for people. Especially given since for most people its hard to let somebody new into their life, and that is just for doing simple things like sharing that you have pets or siblings. So I can only imagine how hard it was to establish the bond he has with some of his patients. For example one patient who came in was carrying the trauma of having been trafficked by her mother when she was a young age. I don't know any more on the situation as I am not allowed to directly sit in on the therapy sessions for legal reasons, but I can only imagine how that patient must have felt in the moment and how she feels now. It almost makes me feel silly for ever being mad at my parents for anything when realizing how much worse it could be.