Welcome to Therapist Uncensored, a podcast where therapists freely speak their minds about real life matters.

It is my pleasure to introduce you to our guest today. They've been so

generous to come on and share with us. Lee Brookings and it's spelled L.I.

is a licensed social worker, a certified group

psychotherapist and a clinical hypnotherapist. They work at a Boulder

Colorado and they created the Umbrella Collective, which is a group that specializes in

psychotherapy for those with intersecting identities. So let me read a quote that

Lee shares in their bio.

I believe that each client I work with has an inner knowing that is seeking to be uncovered.

I see my job is helping my clients excavate that knowledge so they can empower themselves

to make meaningful changes in their lives.

Now who does that not apply to?

So without further ado, let's get right to the show.

I am so excited to introduce everybody to Lee Brookings.

Welcome to the show, Lee.

Thanks so much.

I'm honored to be here.

We have so much to talk about. I am thrilled that you were

willing to come on and one of the things I noticed that I just want to mention it's

sort of interesting is something that I do hear quite a lot

about when we begin to talk about gender and sort of identity and identity development

is the anxiety of saying the wrong thing or getting it wrong or hurting feelings, you know,

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