Hey, welcome back to the Preevy Lions podcast. This is Sarah and I'm with your favorite maternal mental health therapist Whitney. Hey, hey, Whitney. So we're gonna do the episode and we're going to do the episode and we're going to talk as ourselves in the sense of you're the therapist.

I'm the client in therapy because I have had so many preview moms who they're like,

hey I want to start therapy, is it going to be weird? What do I expect?

Right. And the most common question I get is, can I really say everything I want to say to my therapist?

Mm-hmm. You sure can't. I've had clients ask me that before they're like, okay, so how open can I be with you?

And I'm like, it is a safe space here.

And I do always tell people, the only time I would ever breach confidentiality is if you tell me

that when you leave here you're going to harm yourself or somebody else and we

talk through those things and there is still that commitment to that.

Then I have to call 911.

Okay, at that point in time, I do have to breach confidentiality

for the safety of yourself and others,

but otherwise, these four walls are secure. It is safe. You can say what you need to say.

I love that. And so let's okay. So let's say I'll go back to when, well, you know, I severe postpartan depression, so I was like I have to get into therapy.

And going back to that time, it was like I had no choice like I just knew that this was do or die

literally in a situation and I do remember going and you know it was a whole ordeal and it was a family effort for this but

thinking oh man what am I gonna say the first time because and I wish I would have known a few things about

therapy and the first thing that I wish I would have known is that I cannot

unpack 20, 30 something years in the first session with you.

I can't expect Whitney to fully understand the whole gamut in 50, 60 minutes.

Right.

I also wish I would have known that you were not gonna take my baby away, that you were not going to judge me, that I was going to shock you with something I was going to say, that I had to, like I didn't have to be,

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