I passed my LMHC exam! The National Clinical Mental Health Counselor Examination (NCMHCE) last Friday! This means I'm one step closer to getting my license! I have all the hours I need, but I need to get my old boss's supervisor to sign off on them because she has a license and he doesn't. If she signs off then I can apply for my license! Yay ( Read more... )

I've been doing a lot of thinking about race, class, and how I fit into the world. In case it's not painfully obvious: I'm a white middle class 20 something from rural NH. There were 6 black kids in my entire high school, and we had a thousand kids. NH is really, really white. My parents had no friends of color. None. My uncle is black, but we only ( Read more... )

I just emailed Cathy Malchiodi to see if she still needs an assistant for her Art therapy with children and adolescents class at Lesley this summer. If she says "yes" I get to take the class for free with one of the premier art therapy people in the country. Yay! Cross your fingers for me ( Read more... )

You know you're a therapist when ( Read more... )

I got the DYS job I was interviewing for! I found out on the 9th, but haven't gotten around to posting for a while. Short-term girl's pre-trial unit. So yay! Full time, good benefits, great pay, and I'd only be working one job!!! I start May 4 part-time, and then once I close out my clients at the high school I go full time on May 14. Meeeeep. I'm ( Read more... )

I heard this song for the first time on my brother's radio station. And holy shit do the lyrics speak. The video is really poignant too. And as someone who deals with cases of abuse all the time, I'm going to try to use this song in my next Lyrics Analysis group with my teens. It should get a good discussion. They're coming to Boston the week of ( Read more... )

Through this and that, namely a comment in a metaquotes thread, I came upon this gem. Badger Badger, Trance Remix! Go watch. It is mesmerizing. And awesome ( Read more... )

I'll be happy when Halloween is over. I love the costumes etc. I hate the fact that there's way too much chocolate kicking around. I've been so stressed it's not even funny, and we have a ton of candy in the office as part of our incentive program for our kids. This means I'm eating a lot of chocolate. Chocolate is high in arginine, and too much ( Read more... )

I feel like I have had absolutely no down time in the last three weeks. I had my art show, and took that week off from work. Of course that was not a vacation or a break in any way, because I was working my ass off trying to get the show up. And there was baseball, and then Monday night football, and just generally not enough sleep all around ( Read more... )

So I promised you all a well-thought-out treatise on my thoughts on the pro-life/pro-choice dichotomy.
(  Short version: I'm pro-choice, abortion is bad and is to be avoided at all costs, third-trimester abortions are bad and if you're doing it just 'cause you don't want a kid you're a selfish ass. )