Have you ever wanted to do a job
that really mattered?
In this season,
we look at some big trends
and small steps
that are changing the future of work.
So your job of tomorrow
can help your community
and even the planet.
Marriage and Family Therapy
helps individual clients
and families alike
by understanding all the factors
that lead to the challenges
they are experiencing.
Rather than focusing
on an individual's issues
out of context,
Marriage and Family therapists
work with clients
to connect context
with systemic solutions.
Marriage and Family therapists
focus on systems and the interplay
of relationships between self and others.
So when proposing solutions,
we go beyond the individual
and also consider
the different relationships that are embedded in
So when we are looking
systemic solutions,
we are looking at the person
in all of their context
So systemic solutions try to lift
as many constraints as possible
and work within the constraints
that are not liftable.
Just as a writer finds inspiration
in a dog eared book of poetry
or mechanic sees the Mona Lisa
under the hood of a Rolls Royce.
A therapist finds purpose
in stories of resilience, growth
and the potential to be better.
If people go to therapy
and gain that self knowledge
and heal from the different trauma
they've experienced, I believe the world
can definitely become a better place.
Therapy may seem like it's
becoming less stigmatized.
But the truth is,
many cultural communities
are still wary
of seeking mental health care
as an act and as an institution.
People that have been historically marginalized,
that are currently marginalized, have dealt
with a lot of oppression
since the beginning.
So a lot of what's happening
is not new for people.
I think it's potentially more visible
for some people.
That can increase the intensity
of people’s symptoms.
So maybe they had sadness before
or maybe they'd had some anxiety before,
but seeing a lot of the trauma
that's happening constantly,
whether it's on social media
while watching the news
or experiencing
low employment or underemployment or
lack of resources
increases the intensity
of people's symptoms.
And therapy is one of the ways
to help people manage
and regulate some of that.
To learn more,
check out the full episode
from the amazing docu series
Jobs of Tomorrow.