Becky Shaulis

I'm a licensed clinical social worker and I'm in Georgia.

I'm Becky Shawless.

I'm a licensed professional counselor also in Texas.

She's an overachiever.

I also work from home, Vicki, so in my own practice.

But I have actually experienced it with clients who are expecting me to be more affirming.

than anything and when i confront something because that's how i i mean i don't i tell people that i will not pull punches like in our first session like if i feel like there's something that goes against what they're selling me they want to work on i'm going to tell them um and when you mean affirming you're not just talking about gender right because i that's what i mean everything yeah people like i have i have i have a couple of

ethical non-monogamous on my caseload.

In other terms, that's polygamy.

they want me to be affirming.

They know how I feel.

I just, we don't, you know, we talk about it as a relationship, but it's really difficult.

Um, and then like you guys have said online, it's really interesting to me to be in the therapist groups.

And I don't, I usually lurk.

I don't, I was really excited to find the conservative one because now I have one I can actually talk in where I'm not going to get like beat up.

Um,

But, you know, where people are going off about some therapist not being affirming enough.

And I'm thinking, but I take clients that I'm really uncomfortable with and I work with them.

And I do it from the lens of let's deal with your mental health stuff.

We don't have to talk about the politics.