Someone who relates to you
Are you either…
- An artist, writer, performer, or musician?
- Counterculture/punk/goth/indie/etc?
- Tattooed?
- Nerdy or geeky?
- LGBTQ or alternative lifestyle?
- Non-mainstream-faith? Atheist? Agnostic?
- Looking for a therapist who gets it?
Then read on.
An experiment
Therapy is about your needs, not mine.
At the same time, therapy is a collaborative and genuine relationship.
Counseling programs and practices often teach us how to come across as safe, blank slate, bland, and inoffensive. Work to appeal to as many people as possible.
My life has been, in many ways, a process of learning how not to alarm others. I’ve made a variety of attempts to blend in, still getting called out as “that goth chick” or “the strange one” or “the one who uses so many big words.”
When I started working as a counselor, I dressed carefully to hide my tattoos, never wore my nose piercing at work. As my schedule got more and more full, and I started working with more artists and counterculture clients, I started caring less about blending. I saw people confess they were embarrassed to tell me they like video games or Dungeons and Dragons, and then light up when I cracked a D20 joke.
Now that I’m going solo, I started to wonder what would happen if I created a platform to reach you instead of as many people as possible. Here’s a presence that is not sanitized and clinical. Here’s a counselor that won’t say “Wow, it’s so different that you’re into… all of that.”
Let’s find out.