It's hard to pick one thing! I wish all people knew how to validate each other's emotions, as well as their own. Everyone wins in that situation: people feel heard, they feel seen, they feel safe and okay, and we can all move through an emotion faster than we realize when we just allow ourselves and each other to feel our emotions at all. Unfortunately many people don't always have this experience growing up, and they have to learn it's okay to feel how they're feeling.

I love that therapy is becoming more normalized! I want people to see therapy as normal as going to the doctor. I find that people are learning the language to describe their feelings and are open with their friends and family about going to a therapist.

I'll go over some quick housekeeping stuff, and then I tend to start an intake by asking someone if they've had therapy before and take it from there. A lot of times we touch on various topics as I'm getting to know them, and occasionally someone will come straight into an intake with a specific issue they'd like to get right into. I'm flexible either way!