From the author: An article in support of beginning psychologists about various categories of clients. A beginning psychologist with his desire to quickly acquire 3, no 5, no 10 clients in regular practice, everything is delicious. Different clients with different needs and different, excuse me, quirks. And this is not bad at all, so that the psychologist’s identity can be fully developed, so that experience can be gained, and stability and support can emerge. your own achievements, you need to work. At this stage, it is very difficult to reject any clients or take on only those who are really focused on results, and did not come to realize some of their unconscious aspirations, for example, to prove to you that they cannot be helped. , or that he is a better psychologist than you, etc. When you already have a stable practice, the conclusion that you should not take certain clients into therapy, that others will come who are more aware, respectful, etc., is very correct. There comes an understanding of the desired balance between work and life, a clearer sense of self-efficacy and ability to help. But until this moment, building strict boundaries is very difficult to implement and many novice psychologists try to help “different” clients. This stage is very important, since it allows you to gain invaluable experience and subsequently develop the necessary boundaries, not just relying on introjection, the teachings of senior colleagues about which ones to take and which ones not to take, but based on your own experience and understanding with whom and with whom under what conditions I will work and with whom I will not. I will mention three categories of clients whose decision to counsel or treat should really be considered. The first to come to mind are cases of serious pathology that you are not trained to work with. So, if you are not a clinical psychologist, not a psychiatrist, and you have not been trained to work with people with psychotic disorders, then you would need to think carefully about this decision and enlist the support of a supervisor experienced in such work if you do take on this work. These are clients with disturbances of perception and thinking in the form of delusions and hallucinations, not necessarily clearly manifested at this particular moment, but occurring in history or occurring periodically. I understand that it is quite difficult for me to clearly describe a psychotic and the specific feeling that arises in contact with him. Therefore, I would like to write that it is worth discussing with the supervisor cases when the client’s experiences seem “incomprehensible,” strange, illogical, or there is a feeling in the contact that there is no clearly defined personality on the other side (no matter how strange it may sound). Please forgive me such ambiguity, otherwise it will not be possible to transfer from psychiatric to psychological. So, counseling such a client, in the absence of support from a psychiatrist and a supervisor experienced in working with psychosis, is not worth undertaking. Mostly for ethical reasons. Because there is very little chance that you will be able to help such a client, even if he can pay for therapy. The next category I want to write about are people whose values ​​you fundamentally do not share and cannot sympathize with these people. The idea is very clear to me that if I cannot sympathize, then I will not be able to help. I can imagine some kind of mechanical cognitive-behavioral work, but I’m not sure that it will be completely useful in this case. However, I found it very difficult to imagine a client with whom I could not sympathize at all. Maybe, of course, I’m just very lucky, but it still seems to me that supervision and working on myself helps me better take the position of another person and see and touch his experiences in his world. That being said, I can remember clients who made me very angry with the way they organized their lives. In order to help such a client, it is worth deciding on regular supervision of this case. I think that this can be very useful not only for the client. The third category is.