Drue Day Counseling & Consulting, LLC

06/24/2026

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Trey has a wealth of knowledge and experience with a wide variety of mental health challenges across multiple settings.

He is passionate and dedicated to his work and consistently is a bright & sunny presence in the Drue Day Counseling offices!

Trey has immediate availability in 2 offices in addition to telehealth.

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06/24/2026

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Therapy should meet you where you are — all of you.

“I’m a Black, q***r therapist offering affirming, nonjudgmental care for teens and adults. I specialize in depression, anxiety, identity exploration, racial stress and trauma, and LGBTQ+ experiences.

Because your mental health doesn’t exist outside of your culture, your community, or your story.

Ready to feel more seen, more grounded, and more like yourself? Let’s talk.”

Theron has immediate openings and works from our midtown office as well as telehealth. Don’t miss out on this one!

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06/24/2026

Corbin has a few openings left! Grab a chance to work him.

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06/20/2026

From Maryam Ashkan:

“Most people think therapists "just listen and talk." And honestly, I understand why.
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From the outside, therapy can look like a calm conversation in a quiet room. But therapists know what is happening underneath the surface.

We are listening for patterns.
We are tracking the nervous system.
We are assessing risk.
We are noticing attachment wounds.
We are holding the client's story without rushing to fix it.

We are thinking about trauma, culture, family systems, ethics, safety, timing, pacing, and readiness.

Sometimes the work is knowing what to say.
But often, the deeper skill is knowing what not to say yet.

Therapy is not "just talking."
It is clinical judgment.
It is emotional attunement.

It is science, ethics, presence, and skill working together in real time. And for therapists, this is why our work is both beautiful and deeply demanding.

Because the conversation may look simple.
But the work behind it rarely is.”

06/20/2026

06/20/2026

Today we honor Juneteenth — June 19, 1865, the day Union troops reached Galveston, Texas, and announced freedom for the more than 250,000 enslaved people still living in bo***ge there, over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation had already been signed.

That gap between the promise of freedom and its arrival is part of what makes this day matter so deeply. Juneteenth isn’t just a historical marker — it’s a reminder that justice delayed still deserves to be celebrated in full once it comes, and that healing often happens in stages, not all at once.

At Drue Day Counseling, we believe in honoring stories fully: the painful parts, the resilience, and the joy. Today we’re holding space for all of it.

🎉🤎 Happy Juneteenth.

06/15/2026

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Pride Month provides an opportunity to reflect on a fundamental principle of ethical clinical practice. Every client deserves to be understood within the context of their lived experience.

For LGBTQIA+ individuals, experiences of discrimination, rejection, concealment, minority stress, identity-based harm, and social exclusion can significantly influence mental health, nervous system functioning, attachment patterns, and overall wellbeing.

These experiences are not separate from clinical work. They are part of the clinical picture. Trauma-informed care requires clinicians to understand not only what has happened to a person, but also the environments, systems, and cultural messages that continue to shape their experience. Affirming care is often discussed as though it is a specialty area or advanced competency.

In reality, it is a baseline expectation. Clients should not have to educate their therapist about the impact of identity-based stressors in order to receive competent care. Effective therapy requires curiosity, humility, cultural responsiveness, and a willingness to continually expand our understanding of experiences that may differ from our own.

Creating spaces where clients feel seen, respected, and understood is not separate from trauma-informed practice. It is part of it.

06/11/2026

I found this opinion from Michael Hopper, and mental health professional in Indiana. I found it so meaningful and spoken with truth and power while also addressing the common things we see each day.
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“”Pride exists because shame was enforced.
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When someone asks, "What about Straight Pride?" they are usually asking the wrong question.

The better question is:

Why did Pride need to exist at all?

Pride is not about superiority. It is about visibility after generations of shame, silence, violence, and erasure.

There is a difference between being celebrated and finally being allowed to exist out loud.

Most straight people have not had to regularly:
-Hide their spouse at work.
-Call their partner a "friend" for safety.
-Scan a room before holding hands.
-Wonder if their marriage, medical care, job, housing, or dignity will survive the next political cycle.
-Measure honesty against the risk of rejection, harassment, or violence.
-Carry the mental weight of deciding where it is safe to be fully known.

That is the context Pride responds to.

Pride is not just glitter, parades, rainbow logos, or corporations suddenly remembering inclusion has a color palette in June. Although, bold of them to remember right on schedule.

Pride exists because LGBTQ+ people have been criminalized, fired, rejected, bullied, erased, excluded, attacked, and killed. It exists because too many people were taught to feel ashamed for being alive as themselves.

And shame is not harmless.

Hiding takes a toll.
Fear takes a toll.
Constantly scanning for safety takes a toll.

The Trevor Project's 2025 U.S. National Survey found that 36% of LGBTQ+ young people seriously considered su***de in the past year, and 10% attempted su***de. That is not because they are LGBTQ+. It is because shame, rejection, fear, and isolation are heavy things to survive.

So no, Pride is not saying:
"We're better than you."
It is saying:
"We are still here."
That is not an attack on straight people. It is a response to everything that tried to make LGBTQ+ people disappear.

Straight allies are welcome. Truly. But walking into Pride Month asking, "What about me?" is like showing up to someone else's birthday party and complaining your name is not on the cake.

Sometimes support is simple:
Be glad someone survived long enough to be seen. Then help make sure they never have to hide again.
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