You pay for your sessions with your therapist, but does it fund your healing or billionaire investors? During the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health therapists and other healthcare providers were busy supporting their clients from afar because of the need to isolate and quarantine. This led to companies noticing how profitable telehealth and telemedicine platforms might be. Platforms like Headway, Grow, Betterhelp, Talkspace, and others started popping up all over the place, a

But do you really? Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has long been the go-to recommendation for treating all areas of mental health by...

Military veterans experience multitudes of grief simply by serving whether or not we want to admit it.

People think the biggest struggle for veterans leaving the service is things like PTSD from whatever they saw and experienced. But in my...

The more letters after their name, the more qualified they are, right? We've covered many of the acronyms used in therapists' profiles to...

If you're looking to shush your symptoms, you've come to the wrong place. Therapy has changed a lot over the years. Because of decades...

If you've ever listened to The Symmetry Sessions Podcast, you've probably heard me comment about my disdain for TikTok on more than one...

"I wish I could prescribe medical marijuana to veterans," the doctor said as she noted his veteran status in the chart. "I think it could...

"It's my one non-negotiable," she said as she reflected on entering the dating scene. I marveled at this simple caveat to being in a...

A few other things have occurred to me since I wrote the original blog, What Private Practice Therapists Wish You Knew. Listening to...

CBT, DBT, ACT, EFT...WTF You've either seen the acronyms before and ignored them and focused on the therapist's other profile contents or...

Or at least I do. I'm going to say what most of us are thinking about what we wish people knew regarding how therapy in private practice...