What I Been Done Gone Doing

Well, okay, part of it is just I got lazy, so there. The other part is a little bit of self/client preservation. I've been dying to tell you about my job, and just didn't know how.

Remember back when that guy found me and I freaked out and cleaned up the blog and took down anything that identified me outside of my picture and email? If you notice in the comments of that post, another person who also counsels people commented about professional concerns... which at the time was not the issue.

Well, it kind of is, now, for more than one reason.

Reason number one for avoiding writing was actually more to protect the people who see me professionally. I love my job. I mean, I LOVE my job. Some (not all, but some) of the funniest, most fascinating and poignant things that happen in my life these days happen in my office. I can't tell these stories now; they're too new, too fresh, too relevant to the people who make up my caseload. I don't want to take a chance that one of them could be identified by someone who knows me and also happens to know the client. It's a small town. 

The second reason is concern that one of the people I see for work might find this blog. I think it just makes the lines a little too blurry. It's taken many months to try to figure out how to tell my readers what my job actually is without immediately creating a veritable Google hot spot for the population I serve. I'm keenly aware of how search engines find me. If you are finding this post somewhat enigmatic, it's supposed to be, I'm trying to avoid keywords.

I think I've finally figured out how to clarify my occupation, but hopefully fly under the search engine radar.

I started out as something of an assistant but I am now responsible for my own caseload in a town near where I live. My clients have issues with items that create false states of well-being, of emotion, and/or of reality. Most of them come to me through the strenuous suggestions of the judiciary. The company I work for contracts with the judiciary for the services I provide.

Hopefully, that was clear. As mud. At least for the search engines.

Hopefully I can find ways to tell you how much I love my job without telling too much.

Hopefully, God will use me to help Him make a positive difference in my clients' lives. I know He's used them to make positive differences in mine.

Hopefully. :-)