Safety – Basic Steps Mental Health https://basicsteps.life Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:08:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 https://basicsteps.life/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/cropped-basic-steps-mental-health-siteicon-3-32x32.png Safety – Basic Steps Mental Health https://basicsteps.life 32 32 156554076 “I Don’t Believe in Therapy” https://basicsteps.life/2026/02/i-dont-believe-in-therapy/ https://basicsteps.life/2026/02/i-dont-believe-in-therapy/#respond Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:05:08 +0000 https://basicsteps.life/?p=7031 Yes, not one but two people this week entered therapy and blurted out, “I don’t believe in therapy, but my spouse made me.” I chuckled. This wasn’t the first time I had heard this, nor probably will it be the last, but this reminded me of me in 1989 when I attended my first counseling […]

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