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

Therapists have feelings too. #therapistsneedtherapytoo #mentalhealthmatters #therapist

12 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, Dr. Jameca Cooper emphasizes that therapists are human beings who also experience personal crises and mental health challenges. She shares a personal story of a painful divorce that led to severe depression, illustrating how her own lived experience—not just academic knowledge—shapes the empathy and compassion she brings to her clients. Cooper warns listeners not to assume therapists are immune to needing support, urging recognition of therapist self‑care and the value of authentic, experience‑based insight in therapeutic work.

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Newsflash: therapists need help too. Don't ever think that when therapists are working with people in therapy and they're sharing their experiences, sometimes that experience is professional, read in a book, learned over time. But sometimes that's lived experience. When I'm talking to my clients about real shit, mostly I know because I've lived it. Don't think I ain't been depressed, cuz honey, When I got a divorce over 10 years ago, that divorce took me down through there. I was down low in the bed, couldn't get up, needed my mama to come help me. So when I'm speaking to my clients about their experience, how they feel, how to get better, it's not always from some book. Most of us know it from real life. We lived it. That helps have empathy and compassion for people you work with. But don't ever think we don't need help too.