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Chardé Counseling Center Mom 🩷 Psychotherapist • Supervisor
Doctoral Student • Helping girls & women heal & thrive | TX • Entertainment only • Not therapy • Crisis: 988
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10/12/2026

FRIENDDDD, sometimes the people who love us simply don’t have the emotional capacity to support us in the ways we need.

Grief, depression, anxiety, and emotional distress don’t disappear after one conversation. Sometimes we need to revisit the same feelings, memories, and experiences repeatedly as we work toward healing.

And that’s okay. 🤎

But here’s something important to remember: Your friends and family can love you deeply and STILL have limitations in their emotional availability, skills, and capacity to provide ongoing support.

That doesn’t automatically make them bad friends, and needing repeated support doesn’t make you a burden.

This is where professional mental health support can be beneficial. Therapists are trained to create space for difficult emotions, recognize patterns, explore underlying concerns, and help individuals develop coping strategies as they navigate their experiences.

And sometimes healing means having the same conversation more than once. 📝🤎

A reminder: Supporting someone doesn’t mean you have to become their therapist. And seeking professional help doesn’t mean you have to stop leaning on your loved ones. Both can be valuable parts of your support system.

Also, when someone expresses a wish to die, even in the context of grief, take it seriously. Check on their immediate safety and help them connect with appropriate support.

You deserve support, and your support system deserves boundaries. 🤎

Educational content only • Not therapy

10/06/2026

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. 💜

Domestic violence doesn’t always leave visible bruises. Abuse can be physical, emotional, psychological, sexual, or financial and can include intimidation, threats, isolation, stalking, coercion, and other patterns of power and control.

To anyone still in the thick of it: we see you, we hear you, and we support you.

And to my fellow survivors… look how far we’ve come. 💜

Resources are included at the end of this video for anyone who may need them. You deserve safety, support, and relationships where you do not have to live in fear.

Education only • Not therapy

10/04/2026

Consider this your Sunday permission slip to stop putting pressure on yourself to have everything figured out. 🤎

Sometimes our anxiety convinces us that we need to solve Monday’s problems on Sunday, prepare for every possible outcome, and enter the new week with a perfectly organized plan.

You don’t.

Practicing self-compassion can mean recognizing your limits without judging yourself for having them. Rest doesn’t have to be something you earn after you’ve exhausted yourself, and giving yourself grace doesn’t mean you’ve stopped growing.

You can have unfinished goals.
You can still be figuring things out.
You can rest today.
And you can meet tomorrow when tomorrow gets here. 🤎

One day at a time, friend. Happy Sunday. 🌿

10/04/2026

Sometimes you gotta wake up and remind yourself:

“I got a fat 🍑 AND a good heart… and that’s gotta count for something.” 😭😂 CAN I GET AN AMEN?!

Therapist translation: Let’s work on that self-concept. 📝

A strengths-based approach encourages us to intentionally recognize the qualities, abilities, values, resilience, and resources we already possess—especially when negative self-talk has us hyperfocused on everything we believe is “wrong” with us.

Pair that with cognitive restructuring and self-compassion, and we can start challenging those harsh internal narratives with something more balanced:

Not “I have no flaws.”
But “My flaws are not the entirety of who I am.”

Not “Everything about me is amazing.”
But “There are things about myself that deserve appreciation too.” 🤎

And listen… sometimes we start with the good heart.

Sometimes we start with the 🍑. 😭📝

Whatever gets the strengths inventory going. 😂

10/03/2026

A little “therapist off duty” content. 🎃👻💕

When I’m not talking about boundaries, coping skills, emotional regulation, trauma, relationships, and all the other things we process in the therapy room… I’m also a momma & Auntie who will absolutely turn a regular fall weekend into a whole production for the girls. 😂

Boo baskets ✔️
Halloween goodies ✔️
Decorations ✔️
Cute table setup that they probably did not request but were getting anyway ✔️😭

There’s something special about creating little traditions and moments of joy for the people we love. 🤎

And since y’all normally get Therapist Chardé, here’s a little glimpse of Mom Chardé too. 🎃🩷

10/03/2026

One of the biggest therapist reality checks. 😭

Sometimes the person sitting in front of us isn’t the person who created the dysfunction—they’re the person who finally decided they wanted to understand it, heal from it, set boundaries around it, and stop carrying it forward.

And unfortunately, we can’t make somebody else go to therapy. 🥴

So sometimes the work becomes:

“They may never change. What is within your control?”

Processing the impact. Recognizing patterns. Grieving what you didn’t receive. Setting boundaries. Changing how you respond. And deciding what you want to carry forward—and what ends with you. 🤎

Also me casually discussing generational patterns while assembling my daughter’s boo basket because apparently the therapist brain never clocks out. 😭🎃😂

10/03/2026

“I tried that strategy… I tried it, but it didn’t work.” 🥺

And THIS is where we don’t want a child walking away thinking “I failed at coping.”

Coping skills aren’t magic buttons that immediately make difficult emotions disappear. Sometimes a strategy helps a little. Sometimes it works in one situation but not another. Sometimes we need to practice it more—and sometimes we simply need a different tool. 🤎

So instead of “Well, you should’ve done ___,” we can get curious:

“Tell me what happened when you tried it.”
“What were you feeling in your body?”
“Did anything change, even a little?”
“What do you think you needed in that moment?”
“Want to find another strategy together?”

Because the fact that they remembered the skill, attempted it, and came back able to tell you it wasn’t helpful is valuable information—and something worth reinforcing. 🥹📝

Sometimes the intervention is helping them understand:

“The strategy didn’t fail because you did something wrong. We just haven’t found the tool that works best for this moment yet.” 🤎

10/03/2026

Sometimes we’ve validated the heartbreak, processed the grief, explored the attachment, identified the patterns, and challenged the “what ifs”…

…and then there comes a point where the intervention is basically:

“Okay friend… we gotta get you OUT this bed.” 😭📝

That’s where behavioral activation can come in—helping someone gradually re-engage with routines, relationships, movement, hobbies, responsibilities, and meaningful activities instead of waiting to feel motivated first.

Not because the pain isn’t real.
Not because you have to “get over it.”
But because healing can also mean rebuilding a life that exists outside of the loss. 🤎

Therapist translation: Let’s identify one small, doable action this week.
Audio translation: GET YOUR A** UP AND PUT YOUR S*** ON. 😭😂

10/03/2026

Me walking into session trying to act like I haven’t been waiting ALL WEEK to hear the full story 😭📝

Whether they finally set the boundary, had the difficult conversation, said no without over-explaining, ended the unhealthy cycle, advocated for themselves, or made the decision they’ve been processing for months…

Therapist me: “So, how has your week been?” 🙂📝
Also therapist me internally: BABY SKIP TO THE PART WE BOTH KNOW I’M HERE FOR. 😭😂

But this is one of my favorite parts of therapy—watching insight slowly become action. Change doesn’t always happen when we first recognize a pattern. Sometimes we have to explore it, understand what keeps us stuck, build skills, wrestle with ambivalence, and practice until we’re ready to choose differently.

And when that moment finally comes?!
Oh, I’m SAT. Let’s process. 😭🪑📝

Fictional therapist humor. No identifiable client information.

09/30/2026

Friend: “And he keeps going on and on about how dumb I am…but he loves me.”

Me after spending the entire morning exploring feelings, identifying patterns, asking open-ended questions & protecting client autonomy:

“Girl, just leave him.” 😭😂

Because apparently after five sessions, my supply of “And what do YOU think would be best for you?” is temporarily depleted. 😭📝

All jokes aside, there’s a reason therapists generally don’t make major life decisions for clients. Therapy can help someone identify unhealthy relationship patterns, explore concerns about emotional abuse, strengthen boundaries, consider safety, clarify their values, and make informed decisions while preserving their autonomy.

But your therapist friend on her lunch break?
Baby, she is not currently accepting walk-ins. 😭😂

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