What was your “tragic backstory” and how does it provide insight into your work as a therapist?

This isn’t true for every therapist. Many had great childhoods and just wanted to be a therapist.

There’s a known thing amongst social workers and therapists that many of us have had tragic situations or childhoods that have driven us to the field. Among my coworkers, many of us are neurodivergent, had abusive childhoods, or suffered trauma that led us to the field.

Personally I was adopted as a baby, grew up neurodivergent and experienced my friends murder a few years ago. It has provided me amazing insight into being able to help neurodivergent children who are discovering their capacity for self advocacy, and have gone through trauma themselves.

What was your “Batman origin story?”