Mental Health Professionals Are the Ones Taking Care of Us: Who’s Taking Care of Them?

Published on August 4, 2022

When a world in pandemic shut down, the mental health professionals did not. They kept working, many more than ever, counseling patients on how to survive something they'd never seen before, something they feared themselves. They counseled while the virus ravaged their neighborhoods, with their children in the background, through months of racial unrest and a presidential election that was the most polarizing in many of our lifetimes. 

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