Dr. Jameca CooperForensic Psychology Consultant, Emergence Psychological Services · Board Certified Counseling Psychologist and Forensic Psychology Consultant

🙃 Be honest… that’s it #mentalhealth #therapist #pov #healingjourney #genx

29 Apr 2026 · 3 min

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This content was created by Dr. Jameca Cooper. This content was uploaded by Dr. Jameca Cooper. This is a YouTube video titled "🙃 Be honest… that’s it #mentalhealth #therapist #pov #healingjourney #genx" posted April 29, 2026. The excerpt is a single-speaker monologue by someone who identifies as a psychologist with nearly 25 years of experience, giving advice about being honest in therapy. The speaker uses a medical-doctor analogy and relationship examples to urge clients to disclose their own actions and patterns so therapists can help them achieve growth and healing.

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Hey, psychologist of almost 25 years here telling people that are going to therapy, could you go in there and be honest and tell the truth to your therapist? Otherwise you're going in lying, but you still expect help from the therapist who doesn't know everything. Let me give you an example. Let's say you go to your primary care doctor and you get labs ran, blood work, all that stuff, and you're hoping that they check you out for everything so they can find it. What if they come back in a year or two later and say, you know what, I noticed that there is a tumor there now. It's probably been there for about 2 years just growing, and I did all the tests and things, but I didn't really look that hard to find out what was wrong. Would you be like, oh, that's fine, doctor, it didn't matter anyway? Would you be like, why didn't you find it? Why didn't you do all the tests necessary? To heal me and fix me because that's what I come to you for. Now, look at that in a therapeutic lens. If you go in there and are honest to your medical doctor because you expect them to find everything and fix you, why wouldn't you do that when you go in to see your therapist? Don't go into therapy telling half-truths. In a relationship example, like, this is what he did, this is what she did, she always does that, blah blah blah. Talk about what you did. Talk about what you did in this current relationship and the other ones too. Because only then are you being honest enough so that the therapist can understand your issues, the patterns, the triggers, the history, the background, understand all of that enough to actually help you. You do want help, right? You don't expect to see this therapist for 6 months, a year, 2 years, whatever, and be the same way in 2 years that you were when you first came in. But when you go into therapy and you are not honest with yourself and your therapist, you put the therapist at a disadvantage, and you also set yourself up for failure because now you're not going to get the healing and the growth and the change that you probably desire. And if you don't desire growth and change in therapy, I don't even know why you going. Stay at home. I mean, what are we going for? You just coming in talking? If you coming in talking, don't you want something at the end of the talking? Or you just talking to hear yourself talk? There are different goals in therapy, and if that is one of yours, you just want to talk, I just want to go in and let somebody hear me, then keep doing that, I guess, but you're not gonna get better.