I'm a mental health therapist. Here's my story. *GIVEAWAY* Stay tuned for how you can win an ecopy of RACE THE DARKNESS and HUNT THE DAWN. I’ve been a therapist for almost seventeen years. Wow. That makes me sound old. I spent the first five years of my career working at a community mental health agency. That job more than any other influenced my writing because there were many, many, many times I was actually frightened while working there. I was twenty-five and fresh out of grad school when started that job. It taught me a lot about the ugly side of humanity. It shoved the ugliness in my face and made me deal with it one-on-one in my office. I saw everyone in that job. Kids. Adults. And nearly every mental disorder that exists. We were an agency that contracted with our local children’s services, with the courts, and parole boards. I saw men who’d been repeatedly convicted for domestic violence, who hated women and were outwardly demean...
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