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Therapy Tea: Demystifying the Mental Health Profession

Jazmin Crookes, LPC and Karen Jennett, LPC

Why, oh why, did I become a therapist? What was I thinking?!? Am I losing it? Or was I just misinformed?.... Join Therapy Tea hosts, Jazmin and Karen, two licensed professional counselors, every other Wednesday, as they, with the help of other mental health professionals, seek to find the answers to these deep, gut-wrenching, existential questions. Each episode, they interview fellow counselors and other professionals working in the mental health field to discuss mistakes they’ve made, career

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28. Having Grit and Constructing the New System (ft....

Therapy Tea: Demystifying the Mental Health Profession ·

2025/04/16

This week Karen learned about poverty. Karen shares details about her experience participating in a poverty simulation - which we learned about from Kaimi - including the emotions triggered and insights gained. We encourage everyone to find a poverty simulation near you to participate in because there’s a difference between intellectually getting it and experientially getting it.In our interview, we talked to Kaimi Hideyo Mattila who is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - Supervisor in Texas. She

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01:40:05

27. 1st Anniversary Episode: The Good, the Bad and...

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2025/04/02

In celebration of the one year anniversary of publishing Therapy Tea episodes, we are releasing a super special episode! (whoo hoo!) Today, we’re opening up about our journey into the mental health podcasting fray, sharing the origin story of the Therapy Tea podcast, the details of our planning and preparing stage, and - of course - what we wish we had known before we started podcasting. We are being vulnerable, sharing our imperfections and deep fears, and outlining exactly what’s been awesome

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26. Puking up Rocks and Treating Animals with Radical...

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2025/03/19

This week Jazmin goes into the impacts of being ill-equipped in graduate school to properly identify and assess for personality disorders. It’s been such an eye-opener to get out into the actual work of counseling and find high-conflict personalities, disordered personalities, and attachment disordered folks just running amok and wrecking havoc, while also feeling shell-shocked and ill-prepared to handle that. Let’s all get more educated on this stuff together!This week we are sharing our

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01:40:14

25. Trauma Conscious Embodiment and Revising the...

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2025/03/05

This week Karen talks about the frequent reality of crunching CE requirements immediately before a license renewal. It’s tough always having the best intentions to get ahead, but then still ending up putting most of it off until the last minute. Why is it so hard to change this pattern?! There’s a tension between wanting to learn and complete CEs and having to block off time to not see clients in order to do that, so around and around we go.This week we are sharing our conversation with Jennyfer

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01:28:18

24. Tearing up the House and Mastering the Scary...

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2025/02/19

This week Jazmin learned that she just needed to finally finish reading The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog in order to get out of her “do I even know what I’m doing?” rut. We also share our favorite books for an effectiveness refresh!This week we’re sharing our conversation with Kelly Martin! She’s a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor in Texas, a Board Certified Music Therapist, and Certified in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Therapy. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music Therapy (and a minor in

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01:56:34

23. Being Part of the Solution and Bridging Gaps in...

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2025/02/05

Warning: this episode contains discussions of trauma, and descriptions of sexual abuse, sexual assault, medical abuse, and domestic violence.This week Karen learned how to navigate through the embarrassment and horrendousness of being a gross human in front of a client, specifically, nearly coughing to death. What is a counselor to do when confronted with the choice between one’s own oxygen intake or empathizing with a client’s emotional breakdown? Well, the un-ethical choice, obviously. February is

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22. Crashing Upwards and Pioneering Teletherapy (ft....

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2025/01/22

This week Jazmin throws down on some of the scammy elements in our profession including all the re-up rules for various certifications and then the trainings that charge an arm and a leg for their CE credit (AKA PDF certificate) on top of the cost of the training content itself. It’s a rant that gets us both fired up because of all the rules that we have to follow that then cost us money to follow…sometimes we wonder, is this an MLM??This week we’re sharing our interview with the delightful Sena

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00:50:37

21. RE-RELEASE: Welcome! We're Glad You Found Us

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2025/01/08

Today we're re-releasing our original first episode to kick off 2025! (Happy New Year!!) This is NOT because we ran out of interviews with interesting mental health professionals -- hardly!! In fact, we have so many great interviews lined up that we're damn near overwhelmed. Truly, the new year is what it is for our professional practices and then we also want to be sure to share the best possible content with y'all. So, as we start the new year, it felt right to remind ourselves of our mission,

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01:45:25

20. Holiday Special: A Merry Christmas To Us All!

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2024/12/25

This week we’re dropping a very special conversation between Jazmin and Karen all about the delights and dumpster fires of this holiday season! Join us, won’t you?!We define what we mean by “the holiday season” and share some of our personal feelings, childhood memories, and current traditions for holidays like Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. We talk about how our experience of the holidays has changed over time and get a little personal about the impact of grief around the

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01:44:34

19. Sweating Out of Your Eyeballs and Deciding to...

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2024/12/11

This week Jazmin learned the importance of embracing flexibility herself and the way it actually works when a counselor wants to change their schedule to prioritize important life events. Then, we announce and tease our special holiday episode on Christmas Day! The real countdown to Christmas starts now!In our interview, we talked to Kim Frueh, who is currently retired from counseling work. She now owns the Body Shop Movement Studio in San Marcos, Texas and teaches yoga. She was previously a

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01:33:52

18. Getting to the Top of the Mountain and Still...

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2024/11/27

This week Karen was reminded how meaningful it can be to witness genuine client success as a helping professional and what it feels like to have a client “graduate” from therapy. Karen shares how a particular success story with a client has felt extremely emotional for her and triggered not only a profound sense of gratitude, but also an existential experience of awe and connection with humanity. Today we talked to Katelyn Preston (AKA “KP”) who is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Texas

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01:28:39

17. Building a Trauma Work Community and Falling for...

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2024/11/13

Warning: This episode contains explicit discussions of child abuse and child sexual abuse.This week Jazmin learned she’s still really bad at talking about money and shares how challenging it is for her to talk not only with clients about session fees, but also with her bosses/HR Department about her own pay scale. Jazmin gets vulnerable about how it went for her when she went in to ask for a raise. We explore how it can be so emotionally triggering to talk about money when it seems directly tied to

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01:23:37

16. You Gotta Humble Yourself and Don’t Scare Easy...

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2024/10/30

This week Karen learned how important it is to shut the dogs out of her office when she’s doing virtual sessions from home. It’s a cascade of challenges and unintentional self-disclosure when working from home as a counselor, so get ready for it!Today we’re sharing our conversation with Merrik Hetherington, a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas who holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from University of Texas San Antonio and a Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling, also from

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01:46:55

15. Owning Being a "Generalist" and Boring CEs (ft....

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2024/10/16

This week Jazmin shares about a recent experience when trying to confer and refer, specifically how the attitudes of some counselors seem to be overly abrupt, curt and - dare we say - pretentious. In our discussion on this, we highlight our frustration with what seems to be a counterproductive counselor culture of mistrust, competitiveness, and dulled personality expression in conversations between what should be like-minded professionals, particularly in the private practice arena. Today we’re

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01:38:47

14. Finding Your Authentic Self and What Makes Your...

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2024/10/02

This week Karen learned more about the challenges of trying to take vacation time when you’re a solo private practitioner. Punchline: it’s always a nightmare. And, while there are a few things you can do to make it less awful, it’s crucial to just anticipate that you won’t be able to just ‘pick up where you left off’ with your clients when you return. After that bummer of an intro, we’re sharing our absolutely delightful interview with Justin Givan! He’s a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Texas

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13. PATREON PREVIEW: Current Events Series #1: 10...

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2024/09/18

This week we're sharing a preview of our Patreon content with Everyone! In this preview of the bonus episodes we are creating for our Patreon subscribers, we’re reading, reviewing, and reacting this week to an excellent article posted on Psychology Today, written by Jennifer Gerlach, LCSW: “10 Things Your Therapist Might Not Tell You.” In this episode, we talk about the fact that Psychology Today does more than just post therapist profiles and explore what we think would be helpful for clients to

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01:45:04

12. Trusting Your Gut and Counseling as Your Side-Gig...

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2024/09/04

This week Jazmin learned that there are so many factors constantly impacting her ideal work schedule. Karen and Jazmin go into some detail about their experiences trying - and failing! - to find that one sweet spot for client session caseload and schedule that can just be settled on and stuck with. They talk about different factors that have impacted both of their journeys in grappling with the mythical ideal of a *flexible* schedule. And then we’re sharing our interview with Julie Moss! She’s a

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01:51:23

11. Grief Work is Fun and Rewarding -- No Really, We...

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2024/08/21

Warning: this episode contain discussions of death, dying, and grief. This week Karen and Jazmin go on a little bit of a rant about the lack of straightforward licensing reciprocity between states and the challenges that imposes on the work of counseling with clients who are completely oblivious to state licensing laws and regulations. This week we’re talking to the lovely Summer Sahd! She’s a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas who holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of

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01:33:22

10. Understanding Your Context and Maintenance Mode...

Therapy Tea: Demystifying the Mental Health Profession ·

2024/08/07

This week Jazmin was reminded that she needs to update her end-of-counseling-workday-ritual now that she’s shifted to working fully virtually from home. Sharing is caring except when it comes to counseling work stuff!Today we’re talking with Jordan Robertson. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Supervisor in Texas and a Certified Gottman Therapist. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana and a Master of Arts in Professional

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01:37:43

9. From FBI Reject to New Therapist Incubator (ft....

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2024/07/24

This week Karen learned a couple things about scheduling and time-keeping in sessions and taking responsibility when you, the therapist, royally mess up. Jazmin and Karen discuss a recent incident when Karen ran way, way over time in one session to the point where her subsequently scheduled clients just headed home with no idea what might have happened. Stopped clock? Serious accident? Alien abduction? WTF??? Regardless of the cause, the next stop is full-on embarrassment and effusive

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