I’m Not Your Psychiatrist, I’m Your Life Coach!
New survival strategies for mental health professionals
I think it’s time we discussed your therapy. I am enclosing here the bill for your 158 missed sessions. But that’s not what’s really important. I sense a disenchantment with me in particular and with psychotherapy in general. This despite the fact that we have made tremendous strides over the last seventeen years. But never mind all that. I wanted to apprise you of certain professional choices I’ve made that will address your concerns and open new avenues for treatment.
I have become a life coach.
My three months of intensive training at the You Got It! Institute of Boulder, CO were eye opening. Up until YGII I was unaware of “Facebook” and “Twitter” or that there existed a “fan page” about me, brilliantly crafted by you, with many lovely contributions from my other clients. As you know, I had been a strict Freudian and believed that an impermeable wall between therapist and patient was critical for unfolding the id and deconstructing the machinations of the super ego. How surprised I was, therefore, to see photos of my waiting room, my bathroom, my mother, even my ex-wife posted to my “page.” I’ve decided to “go with it” and have created a “page” of my own. The link is pasted below, but if, like the previous 158 bills…
