07/18/2025
Things they don’t tell you in therapist school:
1. Some days this job will leave you exhausted, drained, wondering about the human race and heartbroken from the suffering you hear. That witnessing, seeing and hearing the pain of your clients will break your heart. Things you think only happen in movies or are so rare yet happened down the street from where you are sitting. Knowing that often, you are the first and only person who has seen the true person or heard the things that have happened to them, and that they only trust you alone so far if the depths of their hurt. You sit and read the court documents with them, in pain for that person sitting before you and what they had to endure. There is nothing in this world that can prepare you for it, not even your own suffering and past or years of experience.
2. The most wonderful thing in the world is this job, the role you play, and your clients. Today I was reminded of this after a hard few weeks of the first part. One client departs on their journey after several years with a bounce in their step, progress beyond words and the cutest gifts with an awesome card as you sit playing sequence and reflecting on therapy with so much happiness for them. A second long term client books a session just to come in and thank with some much love and gratitude in their heart that we met and continue to do so, then proceeds to share all the notes they have from our sessions and words of wisdom that have stood out to them. Another client, a 7 year old, waits in the lobby excitedly holding a baby yoda ballon behind his back because he got it for you and can’t wait to show you. Then asks if you can be his therapist for the rest of his life ❤️🥹 and your amazing office neighbour .ygk grabs you a mid-day coffee to keep you going and makes you laugh making fun of the loaner van I have to drive while my car is in the ship (she has the exact same van and same colour..even made sure to park next to me and take a photo of them🤣).
A reminder as a therapist, 10 years into this field, that we do it for both. The hard. The heartbreaking. The beautiful. The joyous.
And we are grateful for it all & for you.❤️
