Our Hosts:

• YOLANDI RAUSE, MS, LCMHC - Counselor
  • As a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Associate, Yolandi has a heart for students and young adults. She has experience in the school system, working alongside families and educators by compassionately processing life's hardships and moving towards holistic healing and growth.
• STEVEN PRICE, MA, LCMHC - Counselor
  • Steven is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor committed to understanding each person's story. Steven seeks to engage in past memories of struggle and pain to make sense of the whole person and work towards healing individually and in relationships. Steven has experience in many therapy areas, but he also offers coaching as life has many transitions and sometimes hard changes.

Our Guest:

• Shawn Rause is a professional dog trainer and shares his experience with therapy and his unique perspective of being married to a counselor.

In today's episode: 

• We asked Shawn what's it like to be married to a counselor. He says, "There is no staying in the shallow end of conversations." 
• Shawn has been seeing a counselor for over a year now, and we discussed what perceptions he had it would be like before his first session. 
• We discuss the cultural stigma around seeking professional help from family, culture, and the church.
• We talk about the "tough guy mentality" and how it plays into seeking help for men.
• Shawn shares his first experience using BetterHelp online.
• It comes up a lot that people feel they don't "need" counseling. But that doesn't mean you won't benefit from it.