Scott's Journey

Scott's journey as a therapist took an unorthodox path:

When Scott was in the Army as a young soldier, he got diagnosed and hospitalized for severe PTSD.
The PTSD was so bad, that he froze up in public one day, and when the freeze released, his body shook uncontrollably and he couldn't walk. It was bad enough to mimic a seizure.
Understandably, he was forcibly hospitalized for mental health and the attending therapist declared that Scott's PTSD was so bad, that he was unrecoverable and moved to close my case and have me discharged from the Army.
But then Scott's saving grace appeared - a short, red-headed, crooked eyed, honey badger of a Navy therapist walked in the room and said, "Scott... I don't care what you FEEL or THINK about mental health. It's only my job to MAKE you learn the skills and you will either use them or you won't. So shut the fuck up and listen."

She taught me some basic CBT skills and saved my life that day.

That left the lasting impression with Scott that no patient should be given an 'unrecoverable' diagnosis, and Scott spent his career taking on the most intense clientele at each clinic to prove to himself and his surrounding staff that NO ONE is unsaveable.

Scott turned around and took the following career path:

1) At 18, Scott joined the Army as an Army Medic and took care of soldiers returning from the Iraq/Afghanistan war
2) He then worked in a low fee clinic with Domestic Violence
3) He then got hired with the county to work with underserved Children
4) He was then hired to work with the Unhoused Population that experienced severe mental health
5) (Severe trigger warning) He was then hired to work Rehabilitation with Probation/Parole with people who had committed sexual offenses.
6) The next stop was working with the Jail
7) Lastly, COVID hit and Scott began working for himself through telehealth, dealing with heavier issues related to healthy sexuality, fetishes, coming out, couples, polyamory, narcissism, borderline personality disorder, drug/alcohol addictions, binge eating disorder, PTSD/trauma, Avoidant Attachment issues, Self-Esteem, Healthy Dating, Codependency, and similar topics

Heavily influenced by witnessing the emotional aftermath of war and beginning of his career in the medical field, Scott took away the following lesson:

Medicine kept soldiers alive, but it did nothing to make them WANT to live

Scott began his career by offering what he knew best - using his major intellect to hyper-research and background as a mohawked punk-rocker to stand up and push for people's mental health, but his career took a major turn when he began working with kids.

Turnout... kids don't care about theories, they care about stories
They don't care about intellect, they that you showed up when you said you would
They actually don't care about what you KNOW, they only care about who you ARE

Scott's style radically shifted from a depersonalized, theory-spouting armchair therapist to an attachment-based hyena.
Scott will always challenge you
Scott will always respond when you reach out
Scott will always be laughing like a fool -
because If the Army Medic is laughing, then he already knows that you're gunna be fine