“Every day, every hour, people disclose to us the most disturbing and dysfunctional behaviors imaginable. After a while we lose the ability to be shocked…”
— Jeffrey Kottler

Kottler’s words are honest. Stark.
And if you’ve ever sat in the therapist’s chair, they’re painfully accurate.

Day after day, people bring us the most hidden parts of themselves—trauma, secrets, shame, compulsions, grief, violence, regret, despair. They hand us their wounds, sometimes raw and still bleeding, and ask us to help them make sense of it all.

They trust us with the things they’ve never spoken aloud.
And we hold it. All of it.
We hold it quietly, reverently, with no one else in the room to help carry the weight.

Sometimes, it’s more than disturbing—it’s devastating.
And yet… I love my job.