And he wants to come back next week.

I saw an adolescent today whose mother used to force him into psych hospitals, counseling, psych meds, all based on fictitious stories about his behavior and mental health, before she abandoned him altogether to relatives and never looked back.* For him to choose to go into counseling again on his own account - this time to deal with the effects of that history - seems to me a demonstration of breathtaking courage.

I feel daily awe, doing this work.


* As ever, identifying characteristics altered to maintain confidentiality.