ABSTRACT

“Good therapy builds toward authenticity, relatedness and strength, helps understand self and others as both sources of problems and resources for wellbeing … I am a well-aged former educator with wide-ranging life experience, twenty years as a counselor; am smart, flexible, intuitive, antiracist, well-respected, and love my work …” This is an excerpt from my self-description in a listing of therapists offering services. How did I get here from where I started?