Hi and welcome to Finding Your Way Through Therapy. I am your host Steve Bisa. 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. Hi and welcome to episode 6. Before I go on on episode 6, just

wanted to make sure you listen to episode 5. Episode 5 was an amazing conversation with

someone I consider a friend David Bisa no and treatment of substance abuse and mental

health. If you haven't had a chance to listen to it, please do. I just think that there's

a lot of gems in there that are very helpful. But today we're going to talk about a subject

that's come up a few times with my friends and family and acquaintances and ask me what

happens when I sit down with my therapist the first time. And obviously what I want to

give you the disclosure that a lot of this stuff is my own ramblings. But I think that

a lot of therapists will learn in the same setting as I did and setting this typically

a social service agency. So I wanted to give a little bit of what happens and then maybe

the differences from therapists to therapists and certainly share my view of what I do. And

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