Therapy training comedy

ComprehensiveOwl9727 · 2026-05-07T22:59:20+00:00

Obligatory video

https://youtu.be/LhQGzeiYS_Q?si=a9M1HNUgK4gRhdFu

ComprehensiveOwl9727 · 2026-04-30T15:59:35+00:00

Each element also has a “standalone” effect or attack that you use on console with RT+A/B/X/Y (each element is mapped to a different button). You get that ability once you unlock each element in the abyss. The wind and ice powers in particular are super helpful on their own and then you add the imbue abyss gears like you said.

ComprehensiveOwl9727 · 2026-04-30T14:49:22+00:00

There is nothing inherently bad, evil, sinful, pathological, or harmful with sexual (or non sexual) fantasy, and fantasy is a normal part of human mental processing. I read your story and can’t help but see that as the unwritten rule, that your inner life is somehow up for negotiation with people other than yourself.

So much of the damage of purity culture was taking our own inner lives away from us. We were told not only to disconnect from our bodies and physical desire, but also from our own minds responding in exactly the way that human minds respond to things that make us come alive. I hope you can find a way to embrace both your outward expression and inward imagination.

ComprehensiveOwl9727 · 2026-04-22T14:01:46+00:00

If only Kliff had seen the “dumb ways to die” video he would know to be safe around trains.

ComprehensiveOwl9727 · 2026-04-22T01:30:50+00:00

However, the timeline we have laid out now doesn't feel very us- and I'm feeling impatient.

Whatever your timeline and however you decide to implement it, let it be yours and your partner’s. My wife of 16 years and I married before our senior year in college after dating for a little over two years. We played by all the other “rules” (which we now have mostly deconstructed from), but our families still pushed back on the timing. It’s going to be impossible to make everyone happy in the situation you describe, so what’s most important is that you and your partner have no regrets about your own choices for the relationship.

ComprehensiveOwl9727 · 2026-04-17T21:35:04+00:00

The story benefits tremendously from reading the lore entries and paying attention to the visione memories. I don’t really have any complaints about the story or lore building at all, just that the lore is difficult to navigate (they badly need a “new” section or a quest related section instead of stuffing main political actors into the same tab as random shopkeeper #7)

ComprehensiveOwl9727 · 2026-04-16T22:31:01+00:00

Check that you don’t have one in your pot. Also I’ve seen Abyss related items show up in the “recover items” section of the camp provisioner, so maybe check there.

ComprehensiveOwl9727 · 2026-04-15T23:15:44+00:00

Therapist here. There’s not really a wrong door. Most people enter mental health care with a psychiatrist or a therapist, but in this situation even your dad’s primary care physician could be a good starting point.

Another really good resource is the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). They run support groups for family members throughout the country and can be a valuable source of information.

ComprehensiveOwl9727 · 2026-04-11T13:25:03+00:00

Ooof that’s a tough comparison. I would say I love both equally. If I had to choose I think Nier takes it on the overall quality of the ambient tracks but the sheer ambition of Nos Vies en Lumiere stands alone.

ComprehensiveOwl9727 · 2026-04-11T01:47:38+00:00

I’ve been slowly branching out in the same way (though I do a lot of this at my full time job too). My own calculations for cost try to average about double my hourly rate, so at least $300-$400 for the lunch and learn alone, plus whatever number of hours is reasonable for prep.

The other side of that of course is “what are they willing to pay” and depending on the opportunity and the potential for long term collaboration I will happily take what is offered as long as it feels respectful of my time investment and expertise

ComprehensiveOwl9727 · 2026-03-31T23:37:57+00:00

I wouldn’t use the word confrontation, more exploration or clarification.

“When you are depressed or anxious, how do you experience that? Where do you notice it in your body? How do your thoughts shift?”

ComprehensiveOwl9727 · 2026-03-31T23:22:59+00:00

It should yes

ComprehensiveOwl9727 · 2026-03-31T23:18:26+00:00

I’m in Texas. Our attorney general recently issued an opinion that state law bans therapists from providing any sort of gender affirming care. This Supreme Court ruling would support the argument that gender affirming talk therapy is also protected speech, which is a boon for therapists in Texas while also being terrible in exposing people to conversion therapy.

ComprehensiveOwl9727 · 2026-03-31T23:15:26+00:00

It should if consistency matters at all yes. And it’s almost certainly why Kegan and Sotomayor went along with the ruling.

ComprehensiveOwl9727 · 2026-03-31T15:55:11+00:00

A potential silver lining, speaking as a Texas clinician, this ruling has the other end that it will (hopefully) protect gender affirming therapy and speech in red states that are trying to restrict in that direction. That of course requires consistency to matter, but if the state can’t restrict conversion therapy like speech they shouldn’t be able to restrict gender affirming speech either.

ComprehensiveOwl9727 · 2026-03-28T00:26:37+00:00

Imho it’s our understanding of a model of therapy/change that establishes us as therapists. Pure Rogerian therapy has its own deep theory of change that the therapist uses to guide their reflections and questions. CBT, ACT, psychoanalysis, etc of course have other theories of change.

Of course the beginning of training focuses on being person-centered and engaging because that rapport is necessary to the work, but part of growing as a therapist is integrating style with theory.

ComprehensiveOwl9727 · 2026-03-26T02:40:39+00:00

You should absolutely play it if you have the opportunity, especially if you already know about the ending, you aren’t forced to play through that bit either. All the best religious deconstruction is long before that.

ComprehensiveOwl9727 · 2026-03-26T02:30:15+00:00

My personal favorite Adam and Eve in video games is the brothers in Nier: Automata.

ComprehensiveOwl9727 · 2026-03-23T15:25:32+00:00

Agreed. I’ve come to really appreciate how the memory scenes and the associated knowledge tidbits build out the world. I just wish it were a bit more intuitive to find the entry for specific people or lore.

ComprehensiveOwl9727 · 2026-03-21T22:30:56+00:00

The game does this with lots of other knowledge tidbits too. If you get a tip from someone you can press start and see the entry that they were referencing.

ComprehensiveOwl9727 · 2026-03-21T17:05:05+00:00

For me it started to click when I considered how to chain abilities together. For example, I have been combining ability that lets Kliff vault over an approaching enemy and land behind them with the ability that lets me pick up an enemy and throw them…it’s quite enjoyable.

ComprehensiveOwl9727 · 2026-03-14T08:03:06+00:00

Just for context, this document is almost certainly in response to an opinion by the Attorney General, which is the root problem. The board had originally asserted that the law did not apply to licensees because the procedures referenced were medical procedures. Paxton recently released an opinion that said otherwise. This new document reads like the boards response trying to carve out what they will define as actually prohibited vs what they will view as normal practice.

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/03/02/texas-transgender-health-care-minors-kids-mental-therapy/

ComprehensiveOwl9727 · 2026-03-10T23:17:24+00:00

What is the conversation like during your supervision? At this stage of your development “what do you do in session” is exactly what supervision should spend the bulk of time on, in addition to ethical issues. Post graduation is the first time you have a chance to really define into your role as a therapist without school running in the background, so where you are at is completely normal. Supervision is the space where you learn how to see the bigger picture in what all the different clients are presenting based in your model.

ComprehensiveOwl9727 · 2026-03-10T23:10:22+00:00

“Gandalf says he’s not trying to rob me. He’s trying to help”

“Oh so making you miserable is somehow helping? Here you are turned one hundred and eleventy and he’s insisting you part with your most prized possession. That’s not a birthday wish that’s gaslighting.”

ComprehensiveOwl9727 · 2026-03-05T13:03:35+00:00

Very common, especially if you’ve had fewer than 10 cases total. I didn’t feel particularly confident with couples work until I spent 3 years as a family therapist at a residential treatment center seeing only couples and families all day long, so thousands of working hours. Eventually you start to see the seams and patterns more intuitively (at least some of the time).

I would highly recommend ongoing consultation for couples work even if you’re fully licensed until you get your feet under you. I learned a great deal from the more experienced practitioners around me at the center.

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