A Therapist’s Meandering

A Therapist’s Meandering

I’ve been thinking about taking this blog in a slightly different direction.

As therapists, we spend much of our time sitting across from people. We are listening, wondering, asking questions, and helping make sense of the experiences that bring the person into therapy. But there is another side to the therapy room: the side where we are the ones sitting in the client’s chair.

Being a therapist doesn’t make me immune to uncertainty, self-doubt, difficult emotions, or the messy process of figuring things out. I, too, have experienced what it is like to be vulnerable with another person, to sit with discomfort, and to discover that insight doesn’t always translate neatly into change.

So, alongside the more traditional mental health articles on this site, I’d like to make space for something a little more personal.

A Therapist’s Meandering will be a collection of reflections from the other side of the therapy room. The perspective of a therapist navigating her own questions, reflections, experiences.

There won’t always be a clear lesson or a tidy conclusion. Sometimes I’ll simply be thinking out loud about therapy, relationships, anxiety, vulnerability, or the strange and complicated experience of being human.

Because perhaps therapy isn’t about having everything figured out.

Perhaps it’s about being willing to keep wondering.