Marta

1st year Trainee Clinical Psychologist | figure skater and bookworm 📖 somehow raising 30+ house plants 🪴

[Marta @martamacky]

@vicky_psych I started my placement in a service like that last month - don’t know too much yet so might not be much help but feel free to message 😊

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@Surina_Sharma I’ve got 2 weeks of the teaching block left and something is trying to take over my body. It hurts to move 😂 I hope you feel better soon and can catch up! Or just wing it 😋

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4 weeks of intense DClin teaching be like… make it stop 🙃

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@saskiapsy @KhyPatel7 @psychmag I completely agree! I took out a max PG loan out to cover my MSc costs and worked full-time to support myself through it with no other help. But if MSc is not possible then PWP courses are a good alternative plus great experience 😊 more DClin courses are open to 2:2 now!

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@psychmag Not necessarily. I’ve never let my 2:2 stop me. Did a MSc, PWP qual, got AP experience in 3 different roles and I’m now a DClinPsy trainee. Keep pushing! The right places/people won’t see you as just a number 😊

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@KhyPatel7 @psychmag Don’t feel like you have to avoid AP jobs because of it. All AP jobs I’ve applied for required 2:1 (I have a 2:2 + MSc and PWP qual) and I’ve gotten offered every AP post I apply for. Ignore the grade and go for it!

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@Karolina_Kalisz Making notes! 😂

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Seeing a lot of tweets about people’s amazing 1st days/weeks on DClin. To normalise some that didn’t feel like this - neither did I. I was, still am, massively overwhelmed and anxious and questioning basically everything 🙃 multiple huge life adjustments at once are not ideal

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@MrRichardFalcon Thank you so much, you’re so kind ♥️

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@eleanorchats Thank you Eleanor ☺️ yes they do but we’re yet to find out things like that etc!

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@carolin47547517 Sending hugs 🤗 x

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@nwpsych201 Right?! I had a meltdown after day 1 and kept telling my friends ‘I can’t do this, I’m thinking of quitting’ 🙃

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@chrisgray2k I did 10 months in private neuro, 10 months in NHS CAMHS and 7 months in NHS adult CMHT as an AP, and 19 months as a PWP (trainee and qualified). Plus a couple volunteering roles in IAPT! Good luck! 😊

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Last day ever as an Assistant Psychologist done! Next stop: #dclinpsy 😍🥹

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Best thing I’ve read on this topic. Covers everything my friends, colleagues and I have been talking about for a very long time

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@karolinaw1201 Show your understanding of risk management and protocol/policies around it based on the population you have worked/will be working with, e.g. safeguarding etc 😊

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Final week of being an Assistant Psychologist. Moving to a new flat in a new town in 2 weeks. Starting DClin in 3 weeks!

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Final 4 weeks of being an AP before DClin starts 😬 little bit excited, mostly petrified 😅

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I’m loving the comments here 😂

[😈Mrs. Aint Going😈 @KodakYac]

Y’all don’t watch the Discovery channel or Animal planet and it shows 🥹🥹

A kangaroo is not waiting for help in a lake… it is a tactic to draw you in and drown you. They are standing at the deepest point and they’re feet are on the ground. Please ignore it 🥲💛

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@anathetrainee I’m in the exact same boat. Feels like something isn’t quite right and struggle a lot sometimes within work and outside, it varies