How are you?

I'm so good. How are you?

I am also so good. I'm very, very excited to chat with you. Thank you for taking the time.

Yeah, thank you. I'm really excited.

So I know that you wrote in your email. Did you say you're a mental health therapist?

I am, yeah.

Could you just like tell me about that? Like, what do you do?

Yeah, so I work for a community mental health center which is a non-profit organization

and I have a combined therapy and case management role. So working with folks of usually lower

economic status who are on Medicaid and have a lot of involvement with community systems and things

like that, helping with both psychotherapy and navigating the world as they know it.

That's amazing. And how long have you done that?

I've been at this job for about nine months now. I'm recently out of school so I finished my

master's back last year and this is my first real job.

That's amazing. Do you love it?

I love it. Yes.

That's perfect. Well, listen, I don't want to take up too much of your time.

But I know in your email you said that you wanted to chat about, I believe you said masculinity

and mental health and sort of getting her to the stigma around that. I don't want to put words

in your mouth, but whatever you want to chat about, I'm open to talking about.

Yeah, that's been something that I focused on in school and my research and something that I'm

really passionate about working with in my work now. And I've been just so excited about the way

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