“Any New Year’s Resolutions this year?” It’s become a cliché question around this time of year, every year. But I have also never found the new year to be a particularly good time for me, personally, to set goals.

I decided it would be fitting (if not ironic) to reward myself for my one-year blogging anniversary with a post on burnout. I felt like my transition to private practice mimicked a lot of the struggles my clients face in really figuring out the question, “what do I want?”

It’s so hard to make sense of what we, as a collective country, went through during this presidential election cycle. It is now over, and I can not help but write about my experience as a therapist and what I was met with over the course of the last week.

People kept telling me: “you need to start blogging.” Maybe they are truly fascinated by the things that come out of my mouth that they think I should put pen to them.

Just because lessons can be learned does not mean that those learning should also have to feel blame and that this post is not meant as a blame-casting exercise. But, I have been sitting with this sense of lessons.

An Open Letter to My Client… As we’ve come to expect over the last few years, the news moves fast.