Well, hello. It's that time again for another great installment of our interview series. This time we speak with therapist, social worker, and content creator Mickey Adkins about the role of religion inside of mental health care, both in the ways in which it can be beneficial and also the instances when it's probably not. She grew up as a nevermoe in the jello belt and

outside of Mormonism also has a wide range of experience working with various religious

based dramas. Yay! You can check her out on her own YouTube channel and if you want to

watch this interview instead of just listen, you can head to our new YouTube channel at Someplace Underneath. underneath. I'm Well, it's such a pleasure to have you here today, Mickey.

I know that you are, your time is precious.

And I'm very grateful to spend some time with you.

Yeah, I was really excited to see your email come through because it's something I talk a lot about, you know, and it's something that I think is really interesting and important also.

So you do really touch a lot on your channel. You cover a lot of different mental health topics. Do you mind actually, so I don't butcher it, giving me your title?

Sure. Yeah. So my profession, I'm a licensed clinical social worker. I'm an LCSW here in Arizona.

That's my like normal day job. And then I'm a content creator. I tell people all the time. I just

yell about mental health in different capacities on the internet as like the other thing. So I feel like you don't yell. I feel like you offer

lovely gentle advice or even just like talk. You know, you just, I feel like you do a really great

job of also not giving therapy. You're obviously not giving therapy on your channel,

but you are talking about those subjects that, especially you like to cover stuff that might be

kind of connected to fundamentalist religion. And you also happen to have grown up near the

Mormon community. So I'm sure you've had your own personal, like, experiences just

growing up around LDS kids and it's so different from learning about it as an adult and just the

sort of nuances that happen inside of it. Are you still learn, do you feel like you're still learning about it now?

Oh my God, all the time.

Yeah.

Well, it's very complex, right?

Because growing up, the kids that I knew that were Mormon, you know, we would sort of

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