Sarah Nielsen

Hi, my name is Sarah Nielsen.

I'm at LPC and I'm licensed and reside in Alabama.

And then I'm licensed in Missouri, Kansas and New Hampshire as well.

Mm-hmm.

Well, I like Mickey and Becky to earn private practice all online from home and have been for a few years.

So my exposure is mostly online.

However, you know, I moved to Alabama a few years ago.

So I try to, you know, do as much networking as I can because my biggest part of my career came out of Missouri.

And I was at a meeting a few months ago, and some of the counselors at that meeting worked within the schools.

And I don't really know a lot of the regulations of school counseling.

I've never done it.

I've worked with juveniles, but never in a school setting.

And one thing that kind of struck me and I feel like it's kind of left leaning is they were, I would use the word complaining about the permission of kids minors for therapy and how that the kids should be able to submit to therapy at younger ages without the parents permission.

And not only does my moral compass go off with that, but as a parent, I'm just like,

I would want to know if my kids were seeking therapy in school.

I don't need to know the details, but I would want to know that they're in it and allow that.

That's my choice as a parent.

So that's kind of the experience that I've had.

And to me, that makes sense.

If there's like an urgent situation, say my kids, something happened at school, there is urgent.