So I am (almost) no longer a therapist!

This isn't a bad thing!

Holy shit, y’all. I suck at newslettering and I have so much to tell you! I have had many years of people asking me if I could work with them despite them not living in Texas. The answer has always been “no” because this is the only state in which I am licensed.

BUT!

I “graduated” all my board interns and am moving my license to inactive status at the end of the year and closing my clinical practice and reopening as a coach in Jan 2024. So I am not booking any new clients right now, but will be when I get back from Oregon in Jan. There will be a new intake packet and all the ish that goes along with it (currently being reviewed by my practice attorney so it isn’t up yet).

Current clients who decide to stay with me (which seems to be everyone thus far, because all us weirdos stay united) will also need to do a new intake packet. Everyone will maintain the hourly rate they came in at. I’ve always maintained a policy that when I need to raise rates, I only do so for new clients and not current ones.

(Because don’t you hate it when you see, like, your cell phone company offer a better rate to new customers? I mean, I hate that. Like you hadn’t been giving them money every month for like ten years and should get priority on a deal over the new people? Rude af.)

So thank you to everyone for their patience when I say I can’t set new appts right now. I am really needing the time to close down one shop and open another. Even if they are essentially the same shop, licensure changes so many paperworky things.

What else? My latest book, Unfuck Your Kink is shipping out from the printers (I got my author copies this week!). I loved writing this one because it allowed me to dust off many of my soapboxes about human sexuality and all the bullshit cultural messages that we have been forced to endure.

We are currently running a Kickstarter for my newest deck, the Intimacy Conversation Deck!!

This one isn’t about kink or even sex specifically (it more matches Unfuck Your Intimacy which is a fairly general but inclusive tome) and is far more PG-13-ish but a kink-specific deck is in the works as well. Buy them both! But only if you can afford them **and** groceries. Groceries come first. And utilities. And a roof over one’s head. Etc.

The book I am writing right now is on shame. I’m exited about this one because this topic really lets me get a little more woo-woo with how to work with shame. Because the best practices I found are a little woo-woo. And I like woo-woo.

I will be at Powells in Portland on 1/6/2024 to chat about my most recent books after visiting my youngest kiddo who recently moved to the mountains or Oregon to wear flannel and carry logs around, or whatever. I couldn’t find a link for that, but I’ll send it along when I do. This also means you can swing by Microcosm that week to have me sign your books with inappropriate messages and the like. And help me celebrate being unlicensed!!!!

I was also going to post a little mental health activity in this newsletter but there was so much actual news I didn’t get that far. That means I have to write another one soon! Like not a year from now but actually soon! Like before the year is out! Pinky swear!

I am also looking at offering more courses, online groups, and other fun things I haven’t been able to do under the restrictions of my license. Feel free to drop any suggestions of things you’d like to see me offer in the coming year!

Take care of you, we need you here. The holidays are rough and it may not seem like it. But I pinky swear on that front, too.

You give a shit about making the world better and that’s far more important and rare than you may be realizing right now. Stay with us. Keep fighting. We’ll get there.

Besitos,

Faith