Therapy Jones

They are so iconic and have such a fun backstory! Truly fated lovers. And one is pregnant?! 😭 such amazing resilient lovely little weirdos

Is this at the Seattle aquarium?!? I love the two one-eyed rockfish there. I miss them

These transition seasons are HELL!!

lol I use the weirdest metaphors and say weird stuff all the time in sessions and I’ve never thought about what AI would do with it 😂 I’m cracking up

I want to live in a place where I can be a solo practice therapist but the government cares about me and gives me health insurance and also pays for me to have menstrual leave

I posted this a year ago and it’s still true and there’s even *less* available govt run things

BUT

Way more community/local/mutual aid resources to share

We have each other and are connecting in the face of injustice and oppression and that’s how we win

This is an excellent update, thank you for doing this work and sharing with us!

Keep us updated!!

There’s no such thing as “too small”. There’s more of us than there are of them. Just do one small thing.

Just a therapist reminder that the strike tomorrow can look different for everyone!

Can’t go to a rally? Can’t get off work (esp essential jobs like healthcare)? Don’t like crowds? Disabled? Sick? Donate money. Call your reps. Read or listen to an informative book about events past and present.

Lolllll I saw that post and thank you for being in the comments

As I always say, not all therapists are winners but the ones who suck are usually pretty good at telling on themselves

It sounds like we lived similar 2016s!! Glad we’ve both found our ways into practicing therapy and cat companions and a deep love for the PNW!

Also remembered I spent a good amount of 2016 trying to convince people not to vote for orange and then crying when he was elected so let the record state I have always been of the FDT persuasion

So I don’t have many 2016 pics and tbh don’t remember a lot of it

But I DID go on a first date with my now spouse in 2016. And a few more. And then we didn’t talk for four years.

So yeah if 2016 isn’t a time you wanna look back on you are in good company!!

Is this the place to be a relatable therapist? I’ve decided yes

People are posting their 2016 pics and I spent the first half of 2016 recovering from being hospitalized for SI while also working at a highly problematic RTC

And the second half working a mind numbing job and still very mentally ill

The DSM will not save you.

It’s a lot of work up front but mostly things you only have to do one time. My biggest advice is find an accountant you trust and network with people in your community for vetting paperwork/staying up with local laws. It’s honestly not that hard once you get the initial admin out of the way!

I’ve been working with a client on giving themselves permission to do things they love and take time for hobbies and one of those things is skiing

Today they no showed their session because they made a last minute decision to go skiing because it snowed last night

Did I do my job too well

The cats have taken over the kitchen table as their perch (it’s by a window) so now, like all the other furniture, it belongs to the cats

Do you ever get better at judging how much you can get done in a day when you have adhd and also how do you get better at it??

I am always over or under estimating and it is really inconvenient

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Glad if this is useful for anyone negotiating the “is estrangement a trend?” moment.

I suspect empowered narcissism and authoritarianism is actually the general trend.

As a therapist who has been estranged from a parent for close to three years now, this thread is so accurate.

Was looking into maybe getting a non-clinical job but still use my degree and do you know how many jobs are hiring to get you to train AI

This is the bad place

I used to live in Seattle and I loved loved loved it and now I live in a dumb landlocked red state and your Seattle content makes me feel so happy! I miss it and I love to see it!

Time of service! Copays rarely change. And in plans where deductibles and out of pocket maxes *do* impact a copay it’s 1. Not hard to look up and 2. Not hard to refund if needed?

It’s in my practice paperwork to charge at time of service and seems less confusing as a client too!

Therapist Facebook groups are wild places

Someone will post looking for a referral for a multi-cultural therapist and the responses will be exclusively women of Color and then 2 straight white dudes saying “I think I could do it”

I’m feeling uncertain about moving forward with them but not sure if this is normal/expected? Is there a learning curve or something I’m missing?

They also posted something to my stories and wrote something in the story that was not something I would ever say, and not a way I want to be perceived.

They also archived *everything* on my IG, which I was not expecting or wanting them to do

And, some of what they archived they’re making *worse versions of* instead of reusing, which is making way more work for me.

It took me a minute and seeing them up live for that to really click with me and I just couldn’t let them stay up. I’m rewriting captions they write and the captions are so off base, and the prompts are so generic and basic, that rewriting it doesn’t help. I can’t make it sound like me.

Everything they’ve pitched to me has been so generic-white-woman therapist and I’ve tried to make what they pitch more *me* but it isn’t working

They’ve only made two posts for me (which to be fair I did approve) but I already took them down because they were so so not aligned with me or my work