Tag: Therapists

An Invitation to White Therapists

In2012, I fell in love with the art, science, and practice of psychotherapy. As I see it, spaces created by this discipline serve as oxygen to the crushing suffocation of the anti-Black, homophobic circumstances permeating the air I strive to breathe. Learning how to be a therapist has not o...

How Therapists (Mis)diagnose, Part I: Triggers

When a patient triggers me, it is my task to find out whether I am in my childhood, or theirs. This involves becoming intimate with my pain. To recognize my own pain is to prevent my story from becoming my reality, or mistaking it for theirs. People largely go to therapy because their pain h...