I've been a therapist since 2014 and I'm going to be straight with you: I actually like this work

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I get that it's my job, but also figuring out how to turn what I learn about being human into something that's useful for others is basically my life hobby

 

With divorced parents, my childhood was split between trying to catch the attention of my busy, emotionally unavailable mother, and time with my dad, who is great

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I didn't go to my own therapy until after graduating from therapy school.  Two people in my life died around the same time and I was a therapist who'd never been to therapy.  Umm...hypocrite.  So I went 

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Then I became a new mom and entrepreneur at the same time, which promptly dismantled every coping skill I thought I had.  The overthinking, the people-pleasing, the doubts, all surfaced at once

 

I've wanted to be a therapist since I was young because I wanted people to feel less alone.  That hasn't changed.  I show up for all of you, not just the parts that are easy to look at