Hi and welcome to finding your way through therapy.

I am your host, Steve Bissom.

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 enmeshed 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'm 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 isn't 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,

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