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[Okay wow, that card is LOVELY. Look at that. He remembers her saying she was a doctor... and now some of her comments start to click.]

[So time to talk about something a little more mundane...]

Art therapy? I had no idea that was real...

Yeah, it's real. 100% real. The version I do is more geared towards kids, but the fundamentals are the same.

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If you decide to start a radio talk show to help people then you're taking the Crain/Crane similarities too far.

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Don't you tempt me.

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they're bad people

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because REASONS

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can you explain the letters for the folks playing at home

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

Basically talk therapy, in layman's terms.

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[The name Theodora is familiar enough to her. And she remembers that surname from that... awful evening, when their relatives decided to pay them both a visit. Yes, this is the lady from that night.

She admires the card for a moment and wonders if she should contact her.

She decides to do so.]

You're a doctor, Theodora? How impressive.

[It takes Theo a moment of staring at the screen to put two and two together. When it does, she's...well, she's just as embarrassed as she has been all day.] Thanks. I guess. Didn't ask this place to put me on blast like that, but.

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Mild CW: Victorian values/sexism

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[ Hmm, well. She understands "contact via network," anyway. ]

What does all this mean?

Right.

Basically, I'm a talk therapist specializing in trauma and I charge what people can afford. More or less.

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[An advertisement for a counselor? Guess this place needs some mental health services, but...]

How often do you find this stuff actually works?

Personally I don't think it works at all. This is all Deertown. [And she seems...mildly peeved about it.]

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....What if... the patient isn't really much of an artist?

[Ah, here's the rub -- as much as Theo is annoyed about having her services offered, she can't deny that they're needed. Case in point: all the kids here.]

It's not really about skill level -- more about sorting through things using art. It can be really helpful for some people, but it's totally optional.

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What exactly is a counselor? Not an adviser?

Kind of? [Theo sort of shrugs, tilting her head.] But...more of a therapist.

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I know what it REALLY means, but I still read CBT as cock and ball torture every time.

Oh my god I fucking WISH.

That'd be AMAZING if that's what I were offering.

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are any of those the kind of therapy where you sit on a couch and explain your problems and your therapist tells you how to solve them?

[She's been in on-and-off therapy for three years at home and she still thinks that's how it works.]

oh, yeah. hi, this is Mazikeen, we met when i killed your zombie mom.

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Therapy huh? Well if that ain't puttin' a bandaid on a gunshot wound in this place.

Never saw much point in talk therapy myself. Then again, the only therapists I ever saw were rich pompous old men who simply did not understand the challenges of being a teenage girl. You know, I might have been more attentive if I had had to sit and talk to someone as pretty as you, though. So I am sure you are gonna busy bee.

Sticking a bathtub plug into the iceberg hole in the Titanic, more or less.

[But that makes her laugh, in spite of her mild embarrassment at Deerington advertising her services.] You and me both. If my therapist as a kid hadn't been a creaky old guy, I might've actually listened.

The problem's gonna be people getting over their own pride, I think.

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Are you offering your services? In a place like this I'm sure they'll be useful. What are CBT and TF-CBT, if I may ask?

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Technically Deerington's offering them FOR me, but that's a nuance.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Talk therapy, in simplest terms.

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Art therapy?

[Ah, yes, the strange self-healing girl with the claws in her hands and feet.

Probably a prime candidate for therapy.]

... What does a counselor do?

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[Well hey there, claw-child, nice to see you.]

Yeah, art therapy. Drawing pictures to help sort out things you're thinking or feeling.

That's really all a counselor does, help people figure out what might be making them upset or scared or stressed.

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[ listen if this was just about his own health, he probably would have flat ignored this post, but he's getting more and more worried about eddie, and at this point it might do him some good to maybe talk to someone who might be able to give him actual useful information about it. ]

What does CBT and TF-CBT stand for?

[ he's making an active effort to even go so far as to disguise his typing style, because he a, doesn't want eddie to find out what he's doing right now in case he gets angry about it and b, doesn't want anyone else to connect this message with him or eddie and risk anything private or personal being open to wild assumptions. ]

[Oh, neat, this thing has an anon function, all righty then. Theo looks at the message for a moment, carefully, then decides whoever is asking must have their own reasons for being both private and faceless. Who is she to question?]

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Essentially it's talk therapy -- my talking with a client -- with the focus of working through past trauma's and learning to adapt and process. These can be anything from familial abuse to addiction to past traumatic events. My degree is in working with children and young adults, but since there's not a lot of mental health support here, I'm opening it up to all ages.

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