Therapy for Therapists…

because the therapist needs a therapist, too.

And sometimes you’re still becoming the therapist.

Whether you’re an experienced clinician, newly licensed, an associate, graduate student, or just beginning your journey into the mental health field, therapy can give you a place to do your own work…not just learn how to help someone else do theirs.

You spend a lot of time learning how to listen, notice, hold space, regulate, assess, and help other people make sense of their lives.

But when you’re the one sitting on the couch? It can be surprisingly hard to turn off the therapist part of your brain.

You may notice yourself analyzing your own reactions, identifying the intervention being used, or thinking, “I know what I would tell a client right now…”

Knowing what to do and being able to do that work for yourself are two very different things.

For Current AND Future Therapists

You don't have to wait until you're licensed or even burned out to have your own therapist.

I enjoy working with:

  • Practicing therapists

  • LPC Associates and other pre-licensed clinicians

  • Graduate students in counseling, psychology, social work, and related fields

  • Undergraduate students preparing for a career in mental health

  • Aspiring therapists exploring whether this field is right for them

Graduate school teaches you a lot about theories, ethics, diagnoses, interventions, and how to sit with someone else's story. But becoming a therapist can also bring your own story to the surface.

Sometimes the things you're learning about in class start making you think about your family, relationships, childhood, attachment patterns, or experiences you've never really examined before. That's not necessarily a bad thing. It can be an invitation to understand yourself more deeply before and while you begin sitting across from clients of your own.

A Place Where You Don't Have to Be the Therapist

Therapy for therapists isn't about teaching you skills you already know. It's about giving you a confidential space where you can put down your professional role and simply show up as a person.

You don't have to impress me with your insight.
You don't have to use clinical language.
You don't have to have already figured out the "why."
And you definitely don't have to apologize for knowing exactly what I'm doing. 😉

We can work with whatever is happening underneath all that knowledge.

You Get to Just Be the Client

Whether you've been practicing for 20 years or haven't seen your first client yet, you don't have to come into our sessions with a case conceptualization of yourself.

You don't have to formulate the case.

You don't have to figure out the treatment plan.

You don't even have to know what you need when you show up.

That's my job.

For an hour, yours is simply to be the person ‘in the other chair’.