Therapists have a duty to act as ambassadors by pointing to generalities and research to educate people about common psychological experiences.

“that's again why i believe that it's the duty of therapists to be ambassadors in some way because even if it's a dinner table discussion and by please by all means i'm not trying to say walk into a room therapists and start taking over with your droning on about your work please don't do that but if you have an opportunity to point to a generality to point to research to say yeah this is how this works this is a truism this is something that's always the case then do so because you can educate people”