A Court of Therapy and Healing

In my recent therapy session, my therapist and I discussed having read Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses series and how rough a read it was for trauma therapists (and counseling grad students) because it’s difficult to turn off therapy brain and not just focus on all the trauma the characters are suffering. This conversation gave me the creative spark to return to my fiction writing roots after so much academic writing and write my first fan fiction in which Feyre, Rhys, Tamlin, and the rest of the crew attend therapy.

One of the classes I’m currently in in my counseling program is professional ethics, so I took a little extra creative liberty and had some fun imagining a group practice struggling to build best practices and guidelines for mental health care for magical beings who have super-powered hearing, can read minds, and see the future.