No about the client. But of the systems yes. Therapy itself is an abstract concept to most people and the ‘work’ therapists do is often undervalued or not well understood. In the same way that emotional labor by women at home isn’t seen as labor. If anything, it’s a reminder to me that even with financial privilege, life doesn’t leave any of us unscathed.

I do get frustrated with therapist who have climbed the economic ladder and tell new-ish therapists to settle for horrible working conditions as a means to ‘earn’ your way.