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Hey guys, it's Alana and welcome back to another episode of Seeing Other People.

Together, we're navigating modern dating alongside experts and real-life daters who are sharing their stories.

Don't have a date for tonight? No problem. Come learn, laugh, and maybe even cry along with us as we navigate the

dating scene together. Hey guys, I am here with Rebecca Marcus. Rebecca, you are a licensed

clinical social worker and your practice focuses on helping millennial women with dating. So,

you are in the right place. And I'm so excited to have you. Welcome. I'm so excited to be here, Alana. Thank you so much.

Yeah. How, like what got you started? First of all, like, why did you become a therapist?

And how did your therapy practice end up kind of going in the direction of focusing on dating?

Oh, okay. So long story. Yeah. I mean, I on and off was in therapy growing up.

So I was always kind of comfortable and familiar with it as it being like a place to a safe place that

you could talk about things. It always just felt very natural. I was always very interested in

people and their backstory and what was behind things at a young age.

And so I ended up getting into the psychology major as an undergrad, not exactly knowing what I wanted to do.

I thought I wanted to do art.

Still infused a little creativity

here and there, but didn't go that route. I actually got into doing energy healing,

Reiki healing in college. And so I was very interested in just how we hold emotion in our body

and like the energy and all these things. So kind of

naturally progressed into realizing like I want to do some kind of healing work. But I was

very interested in emotions. Don't really have such a strong science background. So I was like,

okay, I think like a psychotherapy healing direction is probably

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