What actually happens in a first therapy session
If you have never sat across from a therapist before, the unknown is often the heaviest part. A walk-through of the first 60 minutes — what to expect, what to ask, and what is okay to leave unsaid.
Notes & reflections
Honest pieces on the things people bring into sessions — anxiety, grief, parenting, work — and the small shifts that begin to help.
If you have never sat across from a therapist before, the unknown is often the heaviest part. A walk-through of the first 60 minutes — what to expect, what to ask, and what is okay to leave unsaid.
The chest-tightness that meets you before the alarm rings is rarely about the day ahead. Three patterns we see, and the small things that begin to shift them.
On the slow work of admitting we are not coping, the cultural reasons we delay it, and why the first sentence is the heaviest one.
Resentment, foggy patience, the sense that you are running on fumes. What burnout looks like for parents and the kinds of support that actually help.
Grief often arrives on its own calendar. A short essay on anniversary reactions and how to hold them, instead of being held by them.
Workplace anxiety has many costumes. We look at the early warning signs and the conversations worth having — with yourself, your team, and a therapist.
Once a month, never more
Reflections from our therapists, a few things we have been reading, and gentle reminders to take care of yourself.
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