Setting up a meeting with a therapist or mental health counseling professional is something that some people complete with ease and comfort. They don’t review anything before they try. They are not risk averse. They just pick a flavor on the menu because they haven’t tried it before. They know that it is within 5 miles of their home, the counselor has online connection, or they like the smile of the picture that the counselor had professionally done and paid 1000 dollars to represent themselves minus the 100 pounds that the lens tens to place on the human figure in 2D land.

On the other side some people find setting up a meeting with a counselor is so daunting that it gives them even more anxiety, effects the core gut that they didn’t know could be so upset, reminding them of their first day of school all over again and spins their world even deeper than this run on sentence keeps going into a self esteem spiral that makes life even darker than they thought life could ever get because they are trying to make sure that they meet someone that perfectly fits their vision of who, what, when, where, and why they have a deep unsatiated need to get help for what they don’t want to do but know that they need to do but still don’t want to… agh!!! and then they just quit looking because it’s just too much.

Sure would be nice if there was an in-between… Like finding a process or a plan that is as easy as nodding to the local barista as soon as you walk in and they automatically know your name and order because you haven’t changed how you have ordered in the last 5 years and you fell into a rhythm of arriving and leaving between 7:43 and 7:47 on the way to the next 8 hours of your life. Or an in-between like asking out a long time friend that you’ve known since you were in 2nd grade together at some long lost hero names elementary school in the local independent school district that you grew up in and they reply that they need to connection more than ever and can’t wait to sit down with you and hear what is going on with your life since you haven’t texted since yesterday at 4:57 and asked if they were meeting you at the HOA pool or not…

….but you need to talk to a professional because you and the bestie just haven’t been able to figure out the last 42 years together by the pool why Jeorgie Spiranelli-Jeffersonian didn’t ask you both to prom and he did ask Adelia Clementine and they haven’t seemed to have a had any problems per their lovely historical bulletin board on the Blue-F-Page since they danced off the stage together that night and they have their first grandchild on the way since their first born married Ruby Cube.

Well, I know that some of this is satire and impossible at the same time, but I want to break through the creative writing and say… yeah, finding a counselor therapist is a tough endeavor and it’s not first time, first fit, first connect all the time. Even for me who provides the professional care that I do.

BUT….

that doesn’t mean that not connecting is going to work or that trying wasn’t worth the effort or that you are so hopeless, helpless, unworthy or unloveable… because those are things that we can begin to glance at and slowly and carefully journey toward...

So….Remember…when

you realized that Jeorgie and Adelia were great for each other after you met your most wonderful never ever gonna have a problem with you spouse years ago that you want to come and tell me all about? How they - the spouse, Jeorgie and Adelia - all drive you to do things you don’t want to do? How there doesn’t seem to be a way to be happy in this mixed up extremist black and white world with no color that seems like it is on fire all the time? How you need a safe space to work out the words and feelings that have been slowly building up or getting stuck for years…

Well…, Hi!

My name is Andrew and I hope that in your attempt to find something or someone to help you reach your goals and process fears, sadness, hopes and dreams that you might know that I am willing to make effort to be an in between, a place to attempt to find different, establish goals and new direction for yourself and the others in your life that are precious to you. A process that isn’t always clean, joy filled and generous. A place that addresses deep burdens, boulders and ravages of scars that don’t seem to change over time.

All we can do is attempt to meet a new therapist…

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