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  1. Hi, Thanks for your reply. I haven't talked to the program director or anyone else here yet, cause I'm too scared to do that. I don't know how they'll respond. I might talk to another professor here who is the director of graduate studies in psych and see what he says. I think he'll be discrete and not tell my advisor I spoke with him. I don't know him that well though, so I really don't know how he'll respond. I don't really know what to do...It's true that I have a feeling my credits may not transfer, in which case I might as well just suck it up and stay here...
  2. REST! Do things for fun! clear your mind! grad school doesn't leave much time for that and you don't want to feel burnt out when you get there (that's how I felt...)
  3. Hi, I'm in a clinical Psych Phd program and am in my second year. I don't like my advisor and I don't really like most of the people in my lab (I don't hate them, but I don't really feel comfortable with them). I feel like the training in the program isn't great -- it's very researchy and I'm starting to realize I like the clinical work more. I don't know if I should just stick with it and get it over with while trying to do as much reading as I can about clinical treatment and get my phd, or if I should try transferring. It was hard enough getting in to school the first time around, and I don't know if it would be harder a second time around. I also don't know if it'll be like starting from scratch, since you never know how many credits will count from one school to another... Any advice?
  4. Hi, Thanks for your reply. Why do things need to be so difficult? Well, I don't think it would be a good idea for me to transfer advisors. Chances are my advisor would be on my dissertation committee anyway, plus the department is pretty small. I think I might try to give it till the end of this year and see how it goes. But, I might also start doing research into other programs as well. If anyone has any more feedback, this is really helpful!
  5. Hi, I haven't been on here in a while. I wrote a while ago when I first started grad school in clinical psych in the fall and was having issues with my advisor. Well, it has not gotten better. She seemed like such a good person to work for when I was applying, but now she seems like a pretty cold person. She's abrupt, sometimes obnoxious and sometimes even inappropriate. I have tried talking to her and letting her know what I feel (while still being respectful and open to ideas) -- I told her I feel there's a tension between us that I wish weren't there. I have these ideas for research that I feel all excited about, and she either outright shuts me down or she does so passive-aggressively. I asked her a couple questions that apparently were psychodynamic questions, so now she has labeled me the psychoanalyst in the lab. I feel like she hardly knows me, but she judges me a lot and says very closed-minded and black and white things. She's very hot and cold. Is it a terribly bad idea to try and transfer to another phd program? I keep thinking back to the decision last year of what school to go to, and I feel full of regret. I don't really like to program that much -- even thought it's a well known school, I feel like the faculty don't always really care if we're learning, and the classes aren't really all that great. I thought the school was very organized, but it turns out it's just rigid. I have found some other students and a couple faculty members that I like, which feels good, but I still don't know if that out ways the negative. I really thought I would like graduate school, but it seems to just suck. I know I want to be a psychologist, and so I will hang in there if I have to. My question is, do I have to? Do PhD clinical grad students transfer schools? How would I go about doing that?
  6. Thanks for the support guys. I guess things aren't as clear-cut as I think they are. I guess it's just hard, cause I was waiting for grad school for such long time, and it feels very anticlimactic, and all of a sudden I feel like I'm not doing well in areas i used to be good at and have to prove myself all over again. It's just rough. hopefully things will look up at some point...
  7. Thanks for your message :-) i don't think my advisor is a terrible person. Our personalities are just not really matching. I think we're both trying, and I do think that I could learn from her.The area of research my advisor is in is a pretty good fit, so it's mostly out personality mismatch. I guess I'm just nervous about the future and whether things will work out. It feels like there's so much pressure. I'm at a research institution, but after seeing how it is to be an academician, I'm pretty sure I'm probably going to stick to clinical work. I feel like on the one hand I know exactly what I want -- I want to be a psychologist and I know I can be a good clinician. On the other hand, part of me is confused. I want to contribute to the field in a bigger way than just practice, but I don't want to be a professor. I know what population I want to work with (BPD), but it would be nice to have some general training with additional populations or in additional areas. But, sadly, I don't think my program offers it. I think that when I decided to go here, I mistook "rigidness" for "organized", so it's not really how I expected it to be. Probably the best thing would be to finish my time here and then go from there, but it's hard for me to really put the feelings and thoughts of not liking it here or feeling like I'm not a great fit out of my mind. Maybe I just need to work harder at that... I just want to be happy and good at what I do, but I seem to be too frightened of the future to actually be happy and make use of what's in front of me... I really appreciate your input. Thank you. It feels good to have a place to let these thoughts and feelings out.
  8. Hi, I'm a first year graduate student in a clinical psychology phd program. Ever since I started my program, I began having doubts about whether I chose the right place. My advisor, who seemed amazing during interviews, has not been great. She's an assistant professor, new, and not that confident or nice much of the time. Also, I didn't realize this at the time, but I'm worried that since this is such a CBT focused program, I'll have a hard time getting an internship on the East Cost (where I want to end up in). I know that since I'm just a first year, I should worry about internship too much, but I guess I am anxious about it. I'm trying to tell myself to just focus on the present and not be so worried about decisions I made in the past or that I'll have to make in the future, but my brain won't let go of those thoughts (please don't recommend CBT to me --I'm already in therapy ). I know it's not common (or maybe not that possible) to transfer in the middle of a clinical PhD program, but I keep wanting out of here -- especially since I don't feel like I fit in wonderfully with the students... I thought once I'd be in grad school, I'd have this feeling like, "finally! I'm here!" but it's not coming. Does anyone have any comforting words or advice??? Is there any way to make up on my own for the minuses in my program?
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