05/28/2026
The FIRST thing my clients understand about me is my ultimate goal, beyond what brought them to me, is to nurture them to be good consumers of mental health in their time with me and beyond!
This long term client of has been working on trying to get her father to attend family therapy for a while contacted me to see if I had the capacity to hold space her father and her due to the recent loss of my father. Even though I know she was being considerate of me, that good consumer of mental health modeling, made me SO PROUD. 1.) I know that wellness for herself now sets a new standard for her connections that’s non negotiable 2.) The inquiring of my capacity also meant ensuring her father and her QUALITY of service for their needs should not be compromised or clouded by any means!
I will always SAFEGUARD my profession and purpose , and I’m ok with the commitment by egos and willful ignorance that consider it gate keeping, because value extends beyond the desperation of exposure.
In my therapist infancy my clinical supervisor quite frankly told me, “Shameitra, you will never be able to get someone to a level of healthy you have yet obtained. Which is why your most important duty in the healing space is to take care of YOU!”
If your clout overcasts your continuum of good character and care, you respectfully don’t belong here in your educational decorum before and after your name and you MOST definitely don’t as a renegade, wounded healer with adjacent identifiers. For those of us Vets who only had our presence along with our credentials, as proof that mental and emotional wellness belonged to us ALL, we worked too hard for integrity and dignity to be lost where popularity and accessibility has been gained. I am a clinical supervisor in hopes of shaping the next generation of therapists to keep moving us forward and safeguarding the privilege they have inherited❣️
P.S. Thank you Daddy for being my co-therapist with this Father! He held so much extrinsic and intrinsic traits of you. When I gave some self disclosure that I’m the daughter of a father who…..he got to then show up in his wholeness! Family Therapy is torch passing healing in action❣️Proud LMFT-S‼️