Josslyn Owleye

I am a trauma therapist. I work with victim survivors of sexual violence and family violence. I don't believe this therapist works in a trauma informed manner. I don't think she creates safety for her clients. Clients often share really big emotions, events or experiences and she does almost nothing to contain what occurs. In season 1 she colludes with a client Mau who, to me, presents as a narcissist and potentially a perpetrator. She rarely makes note of anything somatic such as shifts in posture, breathing or body language. She allows one client to say really brutal things to the other with barely any reflection on how the words land on the other client. In Season 3 Cyn tells Yaya she is not attracted to her. Yaya looks devastated and can barely respond. You can literally feel Yaya's grief and yet it is barely explored. The therapist does not use any tools to help the client's understand their emotional dysregulation, doesn't' provide psycho-education about attachment, trauma or the nervous system, doesn't use any visuals, diagrams or other physical tools to support people with different learning styles. She also never unpacks the way common discourses and meta narratives on gender, race, class or sexuality impact the way we relate to one another. She just nods. I would not pay her for therapy. For all of you giving 5 star reviews, I wonder what sort of therapy experiences you have had that your bar is so low. Or is it that you are simply consuming these people's pain as emotional junk food?