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Therapist Notes: self-care for the therapist

Come in! Come in, settle down on the comfy couch, and let me pour you a cup of tea. Curl up under this snuggly blanket and let’s talk…

4 min readNov 20, 2020

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Therapist Notes: self-care for the therapist

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Leslie Ann Costello

Therapist Notes: Get Off the Couch

Body psychotherapy requires attention to the body, and the fastest way to bring a person’s attention to their somatic field is to move the…

7 min readMar 15, 2024

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Therapist Notes: Get Off the Couch

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Leslie Ann Costello

Therapist Notes: client experience — right here, right now

We get so confused. We get lost in thinking about our feelings, so lost we forget how to feel them.

4 min readMar 10, 2024

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Therapist Notes: client experience — right here, right now

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Leslie Ann Costello

Everyday Magic: when magic fails

Last night, I was wondering about walnuts and chocolate, so I threw some stuff in a saucepan to melt, then added some dry stuff and a…

3 min readMay 22, 2023

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Everyday Magic: when magic fails

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Leslie Ann Costello

Therapist Notes: When the Client Says No

Trauma therapy is like a roller coaster, for both the client and the therapist. First, because the experience of trauma is likely to foster…

5 min readMar 14, 2023

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woman sitting on plastic chair in living room, looking out a large window, hugging her knees

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Leslie Ann Costello

Therapist Notes: when being a therapist hurts

What happens when therapists find client suffering unbearable?

5 min readSep 20, 2022

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Therapist Notes: when being a therapist hurts

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Leslie Ann Costello

Trauma is for everyone. And that’s not a bad thing. Except when it is.

Everyone has traumatic experiences. Our bodies are adapted to experience and survive traumatic things. Our species would not have survived…

5 min readJun 21, 2022

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Trauma is for everyone. And that’s not a bad thing. Except when it is.

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Leslie Ann Costello

How to listen like an Emotional Support Animal

Emotional support animals have become more commonplace, to the degree that people often even know what you mean when you refer to them. ESA…

6 min readMay 25, 2022

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How to listen like an Emotional Support Animal

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Leslie Ann Costello

No More “Ugly Cry” — A Bioenergetic Therapist Note

Stop!

5 min readApr 23, 2022

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No More “Ugly Cry” — A Bioenergetic Therapist Note

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Leslie Ann Costello

You.

You are stardust.

1 min readJan 11, 2022

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Leslie Ann Costello

Leslie Ann Costello

Psychologist and bioenergetic psychotherapist, writer. Occasional kitchen magician. Find my fiction under my pen name, Annie M. Ballard

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