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Michael Fulwiler

@MichaelFulwiler

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Not sure how long we have until this website goes up in flames, so if you enjoy following me here, sign up for my newsletter. It goes out every Tuesday.
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We don’t talk enough about the anticipatory grief of watching your parents age.
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Friendly reminder: if you’re white, there’s no reason to use a reaction gif of a Black person (aka “digital blackface”) when there’s literally a Schitts Creek gif for everything.
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Therapists who started practicing during the pandemic
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Can we put some respect on social workers? Psychiatrists and psychologists aren’t the only ones doing therapy.
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Therapists should get doctor’s and lawyer’s pay.
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The therapist in your family is not your therapist.
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“Evidence-based therapy” The evidence:
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Social workers are healthcare workers.
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Two things that are true 1. Therapy should be affordable 2. Therapists should be paid well
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Therapists don’t need to act like therapists on social media.
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Be careful who you take advice from on TikTok
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A one-hour mental health webinar isn’t going to fix the burnout caused by a toxic work culture.
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Imagine being a therapist through a global pandemic and mental health crisis and public health crisis and climate crisis and economic crisis and racial violence and school shooting and
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The mental health crisis gets a lot of attention but we don’t talk enough about the mental health of mental health professionals.
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It’s a problem when mental health professionals can’t afford their own therapy sessions.
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Thinking about the therapists who will process this shooting tomorrow with clients while processing it themselves before they’ve even had a chance to process the last one.
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Therapy is wild, you go from talking about the weather to death to your deepest insecurities in 50 min and then go about your day.
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A lot of people are in therapy because of people who aren't in therapy.
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Ways to make therapy more accessible 1. Forgive therapist student loans 2. National licensure for therapists 3. Better insurance reimbursement rates for therapy
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We don’t talk enough about the mental health of social media professionals. Social media is toxic af. Imagine doing it for your job.
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Shoutout to all the therapists who have been working on the frontlines of a global pandemic and mental health crisis for the last two years with little recognition.
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Don't confuse a life coach with a licensed mental health professional.
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Good morning to everyone who was the first in their family to go to therapy.
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Therapists are healthcare workers.
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We don't talk enough about the mental health of mental health professionals.
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Shout out to the people in grad school to be therapists. We need you.
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No job is worth your mental health.
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Online dating in 2002: age, sex, location? Online dating in 2022: attachment style, love language, trauma history?
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She said yes 💍
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Therapists are underpaid because therapy is a female-dominated profession.
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Mental health is health until it comes to paying therapists as much as physicians.
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The mental health impact of the pandemic will be generational.
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Making therapy more affordable shouldn’t mean paying therapists less.
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We don’t talk enough about the emotional labor it takes to be a therapist.
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The therapist in your friend group is not your therapist.
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Is it really “evidence-based” if everyone in the study was white? via @mtoliver_lcsw /IG
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A mental health advocate is not the same thing as a mental health professional.
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If mental health is health, then why don't we value mental health professionals as healthcare workers?
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The pandemic didn't create a mental health crisis. It made the existing one worse.
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“Therapy is just talking” bro have you ever talked about your feelings for an hour, that shit is hard work.
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It’s hard to find a therapist who accepts insurance because insurance companies make it hard for therapists to accept insurance.
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Someone’s therapist knows about you.
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Intern therapist and their supervisor
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Let’s be clear about something: Black therapists creating resources for Black clients is not racist, divisive, or exclusive.
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If you were called a "great listener" as a child, you're now a therapist.
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Being a therapist must be hard because you have to remember the characters in everyone’s stories.
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Startups will say they're "building the future of mental health" and it's just an app that underpays therapists.
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Wtf???
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Pay social workers more.
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We need national licensure for therapists
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I love this
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Therapists listening to their own advice
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“Mental health is health” then why are therapists paid less than other healthcare workers?
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Check on your therapist friends. They’re going through it.
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Employers will say “mental heath is health” and then burn out their employees.
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Expecting therapists to see 40-50 clients per week is not sustainable.
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Therapist: How are you coping? Me: Memes Therapist: Same
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Mental health professionals have mental health, too.
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Listen, it’s okay to want to make money as a therapist. What other profession is told they need a master’s degree but shouldn't expect to be compensated accordingly?
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Therapists be like "practice self-care" then not practice self-care.
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I need men to understand going to therapy isn't a sign of weakness.
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White supremacy is not a mental illness.
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Why do therapists charge so much? Because it’s expensive to be a therapist.
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The "next big thing" in social media is employee branding. If your employees aren't active on social media, then you're missing a big opportunity to connect with your audience in an authentic way. @MorningBrew excels at this. (Thread)
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Good morning to therapists under supervision working toward licensure. You’re needed!
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Hear me out: accessible and affordable therapy covered by insurance that also pays therapists what they’re worth.
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Every professional sports team should have a licensed mental health professional on the payroll.
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This blew up. I'm 100% guilty of doing this and I'm trying to be more intentional about it. I'm also open to other perspectives and encourage the conversation if people don't think it's a big deal.
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Pay mental health professionals for their expertise.
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Social Work Month is a good opportunity to remind you social work is more than social services. Social workers are also therapists, educators, researchers, and policy makers.
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A therapist who charges $100/hour doesn’t take home $100/hour.
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They don’t want glory. They want to get paid.
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Check on your therapist friends. They’re going through it.
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Unpaid internships for therapists should be illegal.
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A lot of things are therapeutic. Only therapy is therapy.
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Therapists bracing for sessions this week
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Want to make therapy more affordable? Forgive therapist’s student loans.
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Stop asking therapists to work for free.
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“Hope you don’t talk to clients like that” listen, therapists on Twitter don’t need to act like your therapist because you’re not their client
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Pay 👏🏻 therapists 👏🏻 what 👏🏻 they’re 👏🏻 worth 👏🏻
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Advocating for mental health also means advocating for mental health professionals.
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4% of therapists are Black. Black female therapists outnumber Black male therapists 6 to 1. Representation matters.
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A practice billing a client $150/session and paying a pre-licensed therapist $35 doesn’t sit right with me.
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BREAKING: the mental healthcare system
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Therapists are frontline workers.
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When you realize you have to go to school for six years, do 2,000 hours of supervision, and pass a licensing exam to become a therapist that gets paid $20/hour.
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Therapists need national licensing.
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Employer: Mental health is health Employee: I’m taking a mental health day Employer: Not like that
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Today I learned the PHQ-9 was created by a marketer hired by Pfizer to sell more Zoloft.
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Imagine the stories therapists have heard and can’t tell anyone about
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Everyone wants to be a mental health advocate but no one wants to advocate for mental health professionals.
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Good morning to therapists helping people break the cycle of generational trauma.
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WE GOT THE HOUSE
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