There are many aspects of being a mental health practitioner that no one really talks about. This post is about one such aspect.
It’s about humor in the therapy room and how humor can express health, humanity, and humility like no other force.
As practitioners, we constantly find ourselves in highly challenging positions.
We try our very best to assist those in need of our services while attempting to stay as mindfully present as possible with deep and (often unnecessary) suffering.
From this universally humanistic challenge, I began reflecting on what we actually do in our therapeutic work, and my realizations actually startled me a bit. I asked a question I’ve never asked before: “What are we really doing in therapy?”