Therapy Tea: Demystifying the Mental Health Profession Jazmin Crookes, LPC and Karen Jennett, LPC

This week we're sharing a preview of our Patreon content with Everyone! In this preview of the bonus episodes we are creating for our Patreon subscribers, we are including Part One of a two part series on Ethics (AKA the funnest!). In this series we are talking through the ethical considerations of our decision to start this podcast and lay bare the real process of using an ethical decision making model that we learned in grad school to explore and consider the potential impact of the Therapy Tea podcast on our clients and our professional work. In this episode you’ll hear us talk about our ethics class experiences, how we each approach ethical dilemmas now, and the obstacles to using multi-step ethical decision making models developed in research in real practice. We discuss the ethical principles of the counseling field and how they apply to our podcast, the modern challenges of working with outdated codes and reactive rules, and identify many of the specific codes and rules we need to consider and/or adhere to as we move forward into podcasting and content creation. We hope you enjoy being a fly on the wall as we explore together in an entirely unscripted way what it’s really like to use an ethical decision making model.  

Thank you so much for listening! If you're intrigued and want to find out the punchline, please consider becoming a Patreon subscriber! Part Two of this series on Ethics and MUCH MORE are available only on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TherapyTeaPodcast.

 

Resources mentioned: 



American Counseling Association 2014 Code of Ethics available at: https://www.counseling.org/resources/ethics/ethical-decision-making 



Forester-Miller, H., & Davis, T.E. (2016). Practitioner’s guide to ethical decision making (Rev. ed). - PDF no longer available online, scan available in Patreon post



Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council Consolidated Rulebook for Professional Counseling located at: https://www.bhec.texas.gov/statues-and-rules/index.html 



 

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Disclaimer: All statements made on this podcast by hosts and guests are their individual personal perspectives only and are not necessarily shared by anyone else. The hosts and guests on this podcast are not speaking on behalf of all mental health professionals or the profession as a whole. This podcast is not therapy and does not establish a professional, therapeutic counseling relationship.

 

Warning: this episode contains discussions of trauma and mentions suicide.

This week Karen learned more about the importance of personally screening potential clients ahead of scheduling. While screening is a time-consuming, thankless, and unpaid administrative task, it is also a crucial tool in managing one’s schedule and in actually providing the best information and care to clients.

Today we’re talking with Kimberly Knox. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in both Texas and Washington and holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas and a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. She has also completed 200 hour Registered Yoga Training and incorporates yoga into her work with clients. She currently runs her own private practice wellness center in New Braunfels, Texas where she specializes in working with adult individuals and couples from a systems and holistic treatment perspective.

With Kim we discuss what it means to have a systemic perspective as a therapist and how she works with trauma with her clients. We talk about what she considered most important when she chose her graduate school program and what it’s been like to build a new client base and business after moving to a new location.  We discuss her experiences of feeling alone and isolated in private practice and what it feels like to navigate the really difficult days that can often happen in the mental health field. 

Resources mentioned: 



Blink by Malcolm Gladwell



Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell 



The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk 



Hill Country Marriage Workshop: https://hillcountrymarriageworkshop.com/ 



 

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Thoughts? Questions? Email us at therapyteapod@gmail.com 

 

Disclaimer: All statements made on this podcast by hosts and guests are their individual personal perspectives only and are not necessarily shared by anyone else. The hosts and guests on this podcast are not speaking on behalf of all mental health professionals or the profession as a whole. This podcast is not therapy and does not establish a professional, therapeutic counseling relationship.

 

Today we’re talking with Alason Polanco. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from St. Edwards University in Austin, Texas and a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling from Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. She is currently working for a company that specializes in the treatment of eating disorders and mood disorders as a Travel Senior Primary Therapist. While she is primarily Austin, Texas based, she is also working on getting her counseling licenses in both Washington and Maryland. 

With Alason we discuss her experience growing up in a Hispanic immigrant family where emotions and mental health were not discussed, how she learned about setting personal and professional boundaries the hard way, and what it was like to white-knuckle her way through active depression and untreated ADHD while attending college. We talk about neurodivergence, the minority experience in eating disorders, and founding a queer teen group in a small Texas town. We discuss her passion for advocating and standing up for yourself along with the importance of therapists going to therapy, making friends in grad school, and taking every minute of your PTO.

Resources mentioned: 



PBS video-short series “Decolonizing Mental Health”: https://www.pbs.org/show/mysteries-mental-illness/specials/ 



Institute of Chicana/o/x Psychology and Community Wellness: https://www.razapsych.org/ 





One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 





The Giver by Lois Lowry 



River City Advocacy's LGBTeen program: https://rivercityadvocacy.org/ 



OutYouth: https://www.outyouth.org/ 



Fiesta Youth: https://www.fiesta-youth.org/ 



RAICES Texas: https://www.raicestexas.org/about 



 

Thank you so much for listening! Follow us on social media: 

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Thoughts? Questions? Email us at therapyteapod@gmail.com 

 

Disclaimer: All statements made on this podcast by hosts and guests are their individual personal perspectives only and are not necessarily shared by anyone else. The hosts and guests on this podcast are not speaking on behalf of all mental health professionals or the profession as a whole. This podcast is not therapy and does not establish a professional, therapeutic counseling relationship.

 

Why, oh why, did I become a therapist?  What was I thinking?!? Am I losing it? Or was I just misinformed?.... 

 

Today Jazmin and Karen, two licensed professional counselors from Texas, introduce the Therapy Tea podcast and discuss why they are even doing this to themselves and you. They talk about what you can expect to get out of listening to this podcast (they hope) and why they think this will be helpful to new, aspiring, and established mental health professionals.  Thank you so much for listening! 

 

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Facebook: Therapy Tea Podcast https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552953196482 Instagram: @therapyteapod https://www.instagram.com/therapyteapod/

 

Thoughts? Questions? Email us at therapyteapod@gmail.com 

 

Disclaimer: All statements made on this podcast by hosts and guests are their individual personal perspectives only and are not necessarily shared by anyone else. The hosts and guests on this podcast are not speaking on behalf of all mental health professionals or the profession as a whole. This podcast is not therapy and does not establish a professional, therapeutic counseling relationship. 

Why, oh why, did I become a therapist?  What was I thinking?!? Am I losing it? Or was I just misinformed?.... 

 

Jazmin and Karen, two licensed professional counselors from Texas, introduce the soon-to-launch Therapy Tea podcast.  Thank you so much for listening! 

 

Follow us on social media:

Facebook: Therapy Tea Podcast https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552953196482 Instagram: @therapyteapod https://www.instagram.com/therapyteapod/

 

Thoughts? Questions? Email us at therapyteapod@gmail.com 

 

Disclaimer: All statements made on this podcast by hosts and guests are their individual personal perspectives only and are not necessarily shared by anyone else. The hosts and guests on this podcast are not speaking on behalf of all mental health professionals or the profession as a whole. This podcast is not therapy and does not establish a professional, therapeutic counseling relationship.