Lessons Learned From the Meteoric Rise of Teletherapy

People of a certain generation, older Millennials or sometimes Xennials [or as I now am painfully aware “Geriatric Millennials”] as they’re also called (Generation X + Millennials), are often referred to as “The Lucky Ones.” This is in reference to how this particular group of people have been fortunate enough to experience two vastly different kinds of lives while growing up.

I myself, am one of these people. I grew up during the ’80s & ’90s and experienced a childhood of playing outside all day, riding bikes around the neighborhood, and weekly trips to Blockbuster. Yet, I am also young enough to remember the rise of the digital age with social media, YouTube, and smartphones. While many of these things didn’t come about until I was in college, I was still young enough to quickly adapt to them and utilize them to their fullest potential of more than just social interaction.

At one point in my life, I was working as a portraiture photographer, which made platforms like Facebook and Instagram perfect for sharing my work and marketing myself for little to no cost. Admittedly, that’s where my expertise begins to dwindle as I never really embraced apps like Snapchat, TikTok, or Houseparty. The reasoning for sharing all the above is to set the scene for another experience in my life where I’ve been on both sides of a large societal…