Confessions of a Therapist

1. I am just as worried about being perceived as crazy as you are.

2. Sometimes my therapist husband and I break all the fair fighting techniques that I taught you in your last counseling session.

3. I have unhealthy coping skills too. Exhibit A: Coffee

4. I live with the constant reality that the trauma you experienced could just as easily have happened to me or my family.

5. I go to therapy.

6. My extended family is enmeshed—I needed a therapist to point that out to me!

7. I care about your story. I’ll remember it and think about you even after our therapeutic relationship ends.

8. When I meet someone new, I think to myself, Please be as weird as me.

9. I hope that one day my services as a therapist are completely unnecessary.

10. I believe that 90% of the clients I see wouldn’t need me if the church understood two things: emotionally healthy spirituality and community.