dear becoming therapist
A sacred gathering space for therapists-in-training — where the clinical meets the personal, and you learn to bring all of yourself into the room.
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$19/month Founder’s Rate. Cancel Anytime.
To the one becoming —
Let me be honest with you right off the top: nobody prepared me for what it actually feels like to become a therapist. I sat in my own training sessions nodding along like I understood things I absolutely did not understand, stress-eating in my car between sessions, and going home at night wondering if I had accidentally chosen the hardest thing a human being can do.
Spoiler: I had. And also — it was the most sacred, most right thing I have ever done with my life.
Here's what I kept seeing after I became licensed, started supervising, started teaching at USF — y'all are burning out before you even finish training. Not because you're not built for this. Because nobody is giving you the real stuff. The stuff about who you are in the room. What to do when a client's pain lands in your body and doesn't leave. How to hold your own becoming while you're holding someone else's.
"We train therapists to be competent.
But nobody teaches you how to stay whole."
I've watched brilliant, big-hearted people lose themselves trying to perform "professional." I've watched imposter syndrome convince genuinely gifted clinicians that they don't belong in the chair. I've watched the field take the soul right out of people who came in with so much of it.
That ends here. With us.
I built Dear Becoming Therapists because I am passionate — like, cannot-stop-talking-about-it, my-husband-has-heard-this-speech-many-times passionate — about this work being done well. Not just technically well. Soulfully well. Because the relationship is the intervention. Because your presence is the most powerful clinical tool you will ever have. And because you deserve someone in your corner who will tell you the truth, make you laugh, and remind you that this sacred, hard, beautiful thing you're stepping into? You were made for it.
This community is the thing I wish had existed when I was becoming. So I built it. And I built it for you.
Come as you are. Bring your questions, your doubt, your brilliance, and yes — your burnout. We've got room for all of it.
With my whole heart (and a lot of opinions),
Nona
Nona Henson, LMFT · Both Can Be True, LLC
What's included
Everything you need to grow into yourself
The Dear Becoming Therapist community is built around real connection, soulful teaching, and the kind of frank conversation the training programs leave out.
01 Monthly live Zoom sessions
Each month we will gather at least twice virtually for a conversation deeply grounded in the becoming work.
02
Community access & connection
You're not alone in this. Connect with fellow becoming therapists who get it — the weight, the beauty, and the questions you want to ask. In-person meetups held in Northern California.
03
Nona's guidance & reflections
Ongoing wisdom, resources, and reflection prompts from Nona — distilled from two decades of clinical work, supervision, life, deep individual therapy work, self of the therapist work and graduate level teaching.
Ready to stop carrying it alone?
This is the space nobody built for us.
So I built it for you.
Join the Dear Becoming Therapists community at the Founders Rate — locked in for as long as you're a member.
$19/mo.
Founders Rate · Billed Monthly
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