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Mental Illness Happy Hour

#671 LGBTQ+ Therapists - LMFT Renae Johnson

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture, Mental Health, Sexuality

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Renae Johnson is a MIHH listener and a therapist who specializes in LGBTQ+ patients. They talk about what brought them to this work, which includes discovering their own gender fluidity, struggling with their religious background, and growing up with a mother who had significant struggles of her own.

More about Renae:

Renae is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, Board Certified Art Therapist, and a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. 

Links:

Website: Openspacetherapycollective.com 

Instagram @openspacetherapycollective @mytherapistisout 

Tiktok @openspacethearpy @mytherapistisout 

YouTube @openspacetherapycollective 


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Miss Fit Toys.

0:02.6

Welcome to episode 671 with my guest Renee Johnson.

0:08.0

Paul Gilmartin, you are listening to a place for honesty

0:12.0

about all the battles in our heads past present maybe future

0:16.9

this podcast is not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling

0:21.8

unlike Renee I am not a therapist. I started

0:26.2

this podcast in 2011 to kind of be something to help bring people comfort and to

0:32.1

let them know they're not alone and to talk about the tangled

0:34.8

bowl of spaghetti that mental health and mental struggles can be and happy Thanksgiving to anybody out there celebrating it.

0:47.5

This is from the Ask Paul Anything survey and this is filled out by a woman who calls herself

0:51.4

borderline schmorterline and she asks hi Paul I'm a proud

0:56.5

Patreon supporter well thank you been mentioning that we need 1,500 Patreon donors per month for the

1:05.5

podcast to break even is this assuming everyone is donating at the minimum level

1:09.9

I'm asking because I recently upgraded my monthly donation and I'm hoping if others can afford to do so too you might reach your goal

1:18.2

sooner. Thanks

1:20.1

First of all thank you so much for being a Patreon donor and thank you to everybody who has been

1:24.8

chipping in and helping during this very, very tenuous time.

1:31.4

It means a lot to me. And I say 1,500 donors because I think like the average

1:40.6

donation that people are donating at is around a little over five dollars and

1:49.2

the podcast because we have costs like need people to help me with social media, somebody

1:58.4

did help me edit, somebody to help with the website, a lot of other things and then I need to

2:06.0

to make a a modest living

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