After 15 months in therapy, I’ve found
1) my therapist can’t do the work for me.
2) It can’t change systemic forces. It helps me to tolerate a system that shouldn’t exist in the first place.
3) It gives me energy to fight that system too.
4) Without therapy, I wouldn’t be here.
1) my therapist can’t do the work for me.
2) It can’t change systemic forces. It helps me to tolerate a system that shouldn’t exist in the first place.
3) It gives me energy to fight that system too.
4) Without therapy, I wouldn’t be here.
5) Digging deep into trauma is traumatizing. Therapy requires self-care.
6) Therapists can be wrong. A good therapist will know that.
7) Therapy is difficult to schedule & pay for. It’s a privilege & should be subsidized.
8) Sometimes it’s just one line that changes everything.
6) Therapists can be wrong. A good therapist will know that.
7) Therapy is difficult to schedule & pay for. It’s a privilege & should be subsidized.
8) Sometimes it’s just one line that changes everything.
A red flag. I’ve had therapists who were only western educated. Even the best ones would condescend on my eastern roots & say things like “That’s just your culture.” I countered the white therapist also had a culture. He couldn’t see it. To him it was “just the way things are.”
It is okay to seek a different therapist. Not every therapist is for everyone (and some are better than others). Matching is important. For me, just similar enough they can enter & overlap, but just different enough they know not to impose their own story & when to press gently.
Thank you truly to our therapists. You helped so many survive this pandemic. While you were surviving too. I really, sincerely would not be here today if you didn’t hang with me. It was always more than a transaction. It was something sacred. #thankyou #mentalhealth
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