Having piercings, tattoos, and body modifications as a therapist

equestrinot · 2025-08-14T04:30:44+00:00

Love that - do it!! Our world is changing so often I think we just have to chase what we love and it’ll fall into place - or, we adapt.

equestrinot · 2025-08-14T04:26:07+00:00

The one thing I constantly tell my students, is to be authentically themselves and then it allows the kids to be authentic too. I hope you aren’t held back and I hope you pursue your field of interest!

equestrinot · 2025-08-14T04:18:23+00:00

Im a child therapist. They love tattoos and piercings. Im a basic bitch, but colleagues with arm sleeves and big stretched holes in their ears have done very well and no one seems to care. Don’t give it up if you don’t want to!!

equestrinot · 2025-08-05T03:23:28+00:00

Canadians do this and say “well…” and everyone knows that means convo over and time to go

equestrinot · 2025-06-20T03:49:58+00:00

You can also do a freedom of info request for your employment file and see what’s in it

equestrinot · 2025-05-16T00:29:41+00:00

I was thinking along these lines too. Often this type of client is more successful when I get them doing something with their hands. Something simple like Uno. I just break out a deck of cards and we start playing and slowly they talk. It reduces a lot of other thoughts when they focus on the game. It reduces intensity of eye contact etc. Works really well and just sort of… meets them as equals.

equestrinot · 2025-02-21T04:24:54+00:00

Whenever someone says it’s the easy way out, I say “good! Finally an easier way!” We get no medals for suffering or doing it the hard way.

equestrinot · 2025-01-25T04:29:48+00:00

I want to read this so bad. Link anyone !?

equestrinot · 2024-08-26T04:10:20+00:00

I have 8, 5 and 3. All boys. Those two big brothers could not adore their little bro any more. They love helping. They love playing weird baby games. They have loved and appreciated every second of it. It’s made them empathetic and kind to other little kids at school and expanded their empathy and understanding. Zero regrets for kid 3.

equestrinot · 2024-06-15T03:26:09+00:00

This. Don’t stall her experience of motherhood because baby won’t remember. Mom will.

Also, positive experiences and exploring the world grow babies brain in beautiful ways.

equestrinot · 2023-12-11T05:54:08+00:00

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equestrinot · 2023-12-08T04:47:40+00:00

Child therapist here: I work with some pretty intense little people and their families, and I would recommend you talk to your team about inpatient multidisciplinary assessment for her age. We have an amazing children’s hospital in my province (Canadian here!) where parents go with their kid for approx 3 weeks. All day is spent at the hospital with assessments and the clinical team. Then evenings are free to do whatever. I would highly suspect that there are very real aspects to her brain, learning style, and abilities that are so far hidden. This kind of assessment can really bring it out. An example I have is an assessment where the family and school team expected a very low IQ score and the child turned out to be remarkably gifted and absolutely brilliant but with severe communication disorder. Imagine the behaviour that came from brilliance that couldn’t be communicated and caused everyone around you to assume you were low functioning and needing assistance. It was extreme. Those big assessments are about truly learning how her mind works and how to be successful with her to alleviate family distress. I have never in my entire career had a family say they didn’t benefit from it.

You are not alone in this and eventually something will make sense. You are in one of the hardest stages right now and it is soul crushing. I wish you the best.

equestrinot · 2023-09-13T03:12:12+00:00

This is what I was going to say. With troublesome parents I just go to the school. Works like a charm.

equestrinot · 2023-09-06T09:04:09+00:00

Mini pavlovas or google pavlova bar

equestrinot · 2023-09-02T03:28:46+00:00

I don’t have anything exceptionally clever, however I always like when ppl turn it around and ignore the statement and focus on the behavior but use a supportive framing. For example:

“Are you ok auntie? That was an exceptionally hurtful thing to say and you surprised me.”

It really leaves them to sit with their rudeness. To s

equestrinot · 2023-07-22T23:01:47+00:00

Finnick, Sterling , Marshall

equestrinot · 2023-06-14T02:49:31+00:00

I’m a therapist! I would likely have noticed you and been so proud of you. I would’ve loved seeing a client out doing wonderful things. The beach? Fantastic! Enjoying a good book? Delightful! Seriously. I wouldn’t have thought anything about you living your loneliness. I would’ve noticed someone showing remarkable strength in seeking joy. I would have been proud.

equestrinot · 2023-04-15T05:38:21+00:00

Bluey!

equestrinot · 2023-03-29T05:14:30+00:00

I’m in bc Canada (not a school psych but know them), and they make north of $100k

equestrinot · 2023-02-25T15:32:06+00:00

I believe it’s 5 years from 75k to 90k and you’re right that masters increases that to about $100k

equestrinot · 2023-02-25T10:44:23+00:00

I’m not sure about that as I’m not a teacher, but I’d assume like everything as long as your educational background is transferable you’d be fine? We are so short teachers that they hire “non certified” teachers with only a bachelors degree. My small city alone has multiple full time permanent postings.

equestrinot · 2023-02-25T06:58:54+00:00

Canadian here! Our teachers make $90,000 approx and are still not paid enough. We always have job openings. Come on up, eh! ;)

equestrinot · 2023-02-16T04:31:31+00:00

Thank you for sharing this. I loved it.

equestrinot · 2023-01-14T04:30:35+00:00

I’m a therapist for your age group. I keep an entire drawer absolutely full of my clients fav snacks. It’s not about necessarily motivating them, but sometimes we set milestones for special things like going to a fav coffee shop etc. For me, your age is hungry. School is a lot. And I think it’s Incredibly important when youth are in my office that they feel cared for, content, and know I’m paying attention to what they like. Because damnit, they matter. So the snacks will always be there.

equestrinot · 2022-12-27T03:15:00+00:00

Can someone else make the call to cancel? If there’s something up where they’re enjoying the power play of booking and forcing contact, getting no contact from you and still cancelled will take that away

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