valleyofroses

That is very true. I am meeting with my supervisor and the coordinator or internship at my site. I am sort of scared of telling the coordinator about my supervisor since I do not want to make her my enemy (too late for that tho). I hope it goes well tomorrow and hope I don't start crying. Coz I can get very emotional very quickly. I just hope my supervisor gives me more clear instructions about meeting patients in person and how to be better in this area. I don't know what she wants/expects from me really. I will never be what she wants 100% of the time. It is frustrating coz idk how I am doing or I am even making any progress.... thanks for your advice!

I am interning at a site since I'm a social worker. I get super nervous for the groups that I need to conduct...3 groups per week for adults. That's been okay because I know I have no other choice and got to do it even though I suck at speaking in front of ppl. Yesterday I was seeing a patient and my supervisor was sitting in the back observing me (which is sooo intimidating) and I started talking to the patient a little about his past and what other things have been going on since this "problem" also got more serious in his life. He started talking about him leaving a long relationship and getting dumped. Then my supervisor jumped in and said that we should not focus on that and should instead help him with another thing. I said "Sure" and changed the topic.While walking out of the session, I told her that "I thought that might be helpful to know that's why I asked, maybe I shouldn't have asked what caused his problem and instead focus on what maintains his problem" She then repeated that and said that we don't care what caused it. After we leave the session, she grabs the head of our department and in front of me and other staff that were sitting in the office very awkwardly says "Hey...can I ask you a question about my office?" and points her head to the door. She then leaves with her and comes back after 10 minutes. It was so awkward that it was about me. I know it was because she asked her that awkward question right after we were done AND because she has this tendency to talk bad about others behind their back. She says terrible things behind clients backs and I don't like doing that to our clients. I already felt uncomfortable with the head of the department because she is intimidating (and sort of blamed me for filing papers incorrectly while there were 3 other ppl who were also filling papers) now it's even more uncomfortable knowing that she talked behind me with her supervisor. I don't know how to make the situation better or more tolerable since I already dislike running the groups and now I don't even feel safe making unintentional mistakes in front of my supervisor.