Kirk Grieving Death of Mentor

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Dr Kirk Honda mourns the tragic death of his mentor, Phil Cushman.

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0:00.0	Hey serving listeners. Today's episode I wanted to talk about a loss that I have experienced.
0:05.2	My mentor Phil Kushman died tragically last week. He was walking in the evening while talking on
0:13.6	the phone around his neighborhood and on Vashon Island, which is just outside Seattle. It's really
0:19.8	rural out there and he was walking and talking on the phone with someone and he was hit by a car
0:28.2	tragically and it was a hit and run. The person on the phone with him suddenly the phone
0:33.2	goes quiet and he's thinking what happened he waits a bit. He calls his wife Phil's wife, asks
0:40.3	is he home yet? They, I think, called the authorities. The police found him on the side of the road
0:45.4	and he was dead. He was 77 years old. I just talked to him a few weeks ago on the phone,
0:52.7	which I consider to be very valuable to me. We had a really long, in-depth, meaningful conversation
1:00.3	which was always the case with Phil Kushman. Let me talk about mentorship and supervision because
1:06.2	that is something that I am passionate about. As a supervisor, as a mentor myself, I have tried to
1:12.4	model myself after good supervisors and superior mentors in my life. It's not uncommon for clinicians,
1:20.6	especially after 25 years and especially after a lot of graduate degrees to have a lot of
1:26.9	supervisors and a lot of mentors, a lot of professors that are there to guide you and help you.
1:32.4	I've had almost 20 supervisors in my life. Although Phil Kushman technically was never a supervisor
1:40.4	of mine. He was a true mentor in that he guided me. He helped me. He fought for me when people were
1:49.0	falsely doing things about me, which I won't go into, but he believed me. He advocated for me. He
1:55.9	used his power and his connections to help me. Like I said, fight for me. I didn't need him to fight
2:02.5	for me so much as to have him believe in me. These are important aspects of mentorship. When I wrote a
2:09.4	book, the only book I've ever written was on supervision and mentorship. Research shows that
2:15.7	clinicians, good clinicians who end up having good outcomes with their clients are partially
2:21.1	determined by their supervisors, the quality of their supervision and mentorship. I can attest to
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