27/02/2025
Hello all 👋🙏
I thought I would take a minute to reintroduce myself, my name is Abi, I'm in my fifth year in private practice and last week was a huge milestone for me as I qualified as a level 7 Psychotherapist 🎉
After graduating my 4 year core training just over 2 years ago, I gained over the 750 client hours needed, submitted my written exam, and 6 months later was able to take my oral exam. (Which I'm very proud to say I passed with incredible marks!) and here we are ❤️
I often wonder how I want to use this page, and I find myself always questioning whether I should or could post something, because it's a 'bit too sweary' or sounds a bit 'unprofessional' for a therapist. But one thing I've learned about this journey is to remain authentically you.
I will always remember when I was about to start seeing clients years ago, I was filled with imposter syndrome, thinking I was never going to be good enough to sit in 'that' chair!
Then, my supervisor said to me 'Abi, you're never going to be that therapist wearing a fu***ng pashmena' (I had to Google what a pashmena was!!! 🤣) and that one sentence carried soo much permission. For me to still be me...AND be a good therapist. I was never going to be the 'stereotypical therapist' (not that one of those exists anyway), but I certainly wasn't going to wear a pashmena. (No discrimination to any pashmena wearers out there!)
So now, I'm just me. I swear in the therapy room sometimes, I work in a way that will sometimes confront societal norms, I'm creative and I do my best to meet my clients exactly where they're at. I use my intersectional identity, my societal and economic marginalization to influence my practice in all the ways I used to be ashamed to do.
So welcome to my page. A 🤏 sweary with many f***s to give ❤️
