Hi and welcome to Finding Your Way Through Therapy. I am your host Steve Bisson. I'm an author and

mental health counselor. Are you curious about therapy? Do you feel there is a lot of mystery about

therapy? Do you wonder what your therapist is doing and why? The goal of this podcast is to

make therapy and psychology accessible to all by using real language and straight to the point

discussions. This podcast wants to remind you to take care of your mental health just like you

would your physical health. Therapy should not be intimidating. It should be a great way to

better health. I will demystify what happens in counseling, discuss topics related to mental health

and discussions you can have with your therapist. I also want to introduce psychology in everyday life

as I feel most of our lives are in meshed in psychology. I want to introduce the subtle and not

so subtle way psychology plays a factor in our lives. It will be my own mix of thoughts as well

as special guests. So join me on this discovery of therapy and psychology.

Well hello and welcome to Finding Your Way Through Therapy the podcast. My name is Steve Bisson.

I am a mental health counselor as well as an author. I wanted to start episode one by talking

about why talk about therapy and counseling and psychology in a podcast. The first thing I want

to say is that there is a whole lot of podcasts that talk about what I consider as important as

physical health. They don't talk about mental health as much and when I go out or I'm in the

community, I usually have a lot of people who ask me about mental health. As soon as they know I'm

a therapist, they're curious. This is acquaintances, friends, neighbors, perfect strangers. You say

you're a therapist, they have about 20,000 different questions about therapy and what it does and

what happens and they ask for cases and obviously for protective reasons. I will not talk about

that. There's HIPAA that is still involved here. But the first thing that I did was research stats

and yes, there will be stats that I discuss. About 20% of people reach out for therapy on any given

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