Why did you become a therapist, and what motivates you to continue?

I have always been fascinated with people and figuring out the way that we work why we operate the way that we do, why we are the way that we are, I've always been interested in that since I was as young as maybe seven or eight. And so I knew even then that I would love being some kind of therapist, you know someone who works with people all day long, because that just seemed like the most interesting job in the world to me. And I've always wanted to help you know whether you know when I was little, I was like I wanted to grow up to be like Superwoman, I didn't know you couldn't like just become super woman, but I always want to be able to help and to save people from sort of desperate situations and bring them into like a new place of like hope and and joy. And so those things are still true for me today I've been doing this for about 10 years. And I really love the work that I do. That's why I'm still making room for it in my life, and I love working with my clients. They're incredible people. And, you know, seeing their progress seeing them, you know come in and they'll have the feelings that they're having and the stressors they're having. But eventually, shift out of those places, to where, you know, it's no longer just sort of survival mode but actually being able to have excitement about their lives and have a glow about them and tapping into, you know all the things that are possible for them. It makes it such a rewarding, you know career for me. And it's great to know that I can you know that the things that I love and the things I'm good at are combined like this, and then I can serve in this way. So, that's hopefully a lot of what motivates me, you know, I also have a lot of, you know, friends and loved ones growing up who had their own trauma, and have their own struggles with mental health conditions and seeing how, you know, they were affected when they didn't get the help that they needed also strongly motivates me, I think it's just there's no reason for that, there are so many tools out there that help people to experience relief from all kinds of things. That's when I went into grad school to find out what those things were. And there's so many tools and resources available and I just think it's completely unnecessary for folks to just sort of suffer, and just, you know, be resigned to that or get used to that, when there's so much that can be done to make life so different so that's a lot of what motivates me as a therapist and where my drive comes from so thank you for listening.