Her Time Therapy Blog

When we rush ahead mentally, we miss the life that's happening right now. A mid-year check-in is really just an invitation to come back to where you actually are.

You finally decide to find a therapist. You open a directory, ready to take care of yourself, and you are met with a wall of letters. LPC. LCSW. LMFT. PsyD. NCC. You came looking for help and got handed a decoder ring instead.

On the day my mom passed away, there is one thing I remember my partner doing that helped me more than anything, and it was so incredibly simple. That whole day, it felt like there was an anvil on my chest. He may have said something wise to me. I honestly cannot tell you what, because acute grief is so shocking that most of that day never recorded.

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.