A researcher describes how turning off the camera and anticipating tough questions about trauma research helped them present with less anxiety. The helper's guidance clarified their study's purpose, but cost kept them from seeking this kind of support sooner.
The first thing he did, he put his camera off. He empowered me because I was shaken, which was really helpful because then I could just kind of go, go through the process of really delivering what I had just worked so hard on. Also, what he was able to do is help me to anticipate research questions that they were going to ask. My topic was trauma. I don't believe that's a topic that he studied, but he was so versed in what I needed to know, which really helped me to understand what I need to convey to really help people to understand what I was trying to to do for my study. I found him to be very compassionate, very understanding, extremely patient because sometimes what I needed was an atta girl, redirection, a little bit of hand-holding, and I think he was able to provide that. The reason why I didn't seek out help is because it was so expensive to begin with. I didn't think that option was open to me, so
