Hello and welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hansen.

If you're new to the podcast, thanks for listening today, and if you've listened before, welcome

back.

I have been looking forward to airing this episode for a long time.

Over the last 5-10 years, interest in mental health has boomed, and with that, there's

greater demand for therapists than ever.

I've had several friends myself either consider moving into a career in mental health or

even go back to school to get their degree and begin the process of becoming a therapist.

On today's episode, I'm talking to 5 people who are either therapists or therapists in

training to learn the lessons they wish they'd known when they started.

If you're considering a career in mental health or are currently going to graduate school,

or hey, if you're just interested in therapy and curious about how the sausage gets made,

this one's for you.

As a note, I've been working on this episode for a while, and a number of the interviews

I did for it were recorded months ago.

And this means that if you're watching on YouTube, the video quality is going to change

a couple of times.

And working on this project was a nice reminder of how far we've come with our AV quality.

So in this episode, I'll be talking to Laurie Gottlieb, a practicing therapist in Los Angeles

and the author of Maybe You Should Talk To Someone, Terry Real, a family therapist, and

the best-selling author of a number of books, including his most recent us, Elizabeth

Ferreira, a somatic therapist, and also my partner, and finally Taylor Banfield, a graduate

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