Her Time Therapy Blog

If you're a therapist weighing whether to join Alma, Headway, BetterHelp, or one of the dozen platforms promising to take the business headache off your plate, I want to talk to you honestly, clinician to clinician. Not to shame you. To show you what's underneath the offer, because most of us were never taught to see it.

You found a therapist. You booked the free consultation. Now you're sitting with a list of questions you found online: What's your approach? Do you take my insurance? How much do you charge? Those are good questions. But there's one almost no one tells you to ask, and it may matter more than all the others combined.

The summer transition is one of the most underappreciated stressors of the parenting year — and for moms especially, it tends to land hardest. Here's what's actually happening, and what helps.

If you're reading this, there's a good chance something happened to you, and that something is still affecting your life today. Maybe you've been carrying it for years. Maybe it shows up in your sleep, in your relationships, in the way you talk to yourself when you make a mistake.

You've memorized the parking garage level where you always find a spot. You know which nurses will actually answer questions and which ones won't. You've learned to read the oncologist's face before she even opens her mouth. You have become, almost without noticing, an expert in a world you never wanted to know.