Tag: mental-health
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Quiet Streets, Honest Conversations: What Amsterdam Taught Me in 72 hours.
Roots & the Long Arc of Leaving Home To imagine traveling the world as a little farm boy raised from the roots of rural East Tennessee wasn’t something I grew up knowing was possible. I don’t particularly remember growing up with nothing, nor do I carry vivid memories of having everything. Much of life still…
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My journey into counseling
My journey into counseling began not with certainty, but with lived experience—of growth, survival, healing, and transformation. I grew up as a young queer boy in rural Appalachia, raised among ridgelines, hollers, and the quiet weight of expectation inside the Southern Missionary Baptist Church. From an early age, I learned what it meant to feel…
Khristofer Johnsen 