psychotherapist

For the last two years before the war, I was a psychotherapist.

Ruth Bettelheim, Ph.D., is a life coach and a child, marriage, and family psychotherapist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, Psychology Today, The Huffington Post, USA Today, and other publications.

As a retired psychotherapist who is always balancing looking inward and looking outward, I weigh worst-case scenarios.

The situation of a young woman showing up at a psychotherapist’s office with a gun sets up a self-contained dramatic situation that audiences seem to relish.

“Shame often stems from societal and cultural expectations, particularly the pressure to have it all together,” says Kristie Tse, a psychotherapist and founder of the online therapy practice Uncover Mental Health Counseling.