Holding the Line with Got Your Six Counseling

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Hey everyone and welcome to Holding The Line with Got Your Six Counseling. I'm Peggy, and this is Brittany. This is a space where we get real about the shit nobody wants to talk about. Mental health, life, trauma, healing, and everything in between. Sometimes we get clinical, sometimes we get messy, but it's always honest. Quick reminder, this podcast isn't therapy and it's not a substitute for professional care. We're not here to provide therapy, diagnose, or treat. If you're struggling with mental health, please reach out to a licensed provider. You don't have to go through it alone. We've got your six. We're just two trauma therapists showing up as humans first, ready to have real unfiltered conversations about the stuff that matters. We're here to break the stigma. Share what we've learned from both sides of the therapy room and talk about the challenges people face every day, especially in the veteran and first responder communities, whether it's trauma, burnout, relationships, identity, or just getting through the week, we believe that these conversations matter. They deserve space, and that's what we're holding the line for. So let's dive in.

Brittany:

So the genesis of our podcast, started with feelings surrounding the shit nobody wants to talk about, and the stigma that exists concerning the mental health of people we work with, as most of you know, is veterans first responders like law enforcement, firefighters, paramedics, EMT, and but not least, 9 1 1 dispatchers. Um, those who have been deeply affected by trauma are usually forced to ignore, push it down, numb it out, and continue to function, usually leads to severe impacts in various areas of their life. I feel like I speak for all of us in this room. Uh, when I say that as therapists and former military spouses like Peggy and I, and then. Maybe for Christina too. and for myself, loosely, loosely as a first responder, that it was important to talk about these really important issues and have a platform for education open dialogue to hopefully dispel the misinformation, not just about mental health, but for trauma in the sphere that it existed. PTSD especially looks different and everyone, and therapy is not like it is in the movies. TikTok, social media and pop culture presents things very inaccurately with their buzzwords. Like everyone is a victim of gaslighting by a narcissist. Everyone's codependent and everyone has trauma and everything is a trigger. who cleans their houses for long periods of time is in a manic episode or has OCD, and if you have mood swings, you're bipolar. Our goal is to clarify what these things truly are and to attempt to educate our listeners on what is real versus what they're hearing and seeing on social media and in pop culture.

Peggy:

Throughout the course of our podcast, we're gonna be discussing trauma, its impacts on our lives and the brain being a therapist, and all the things that go with it, sex issues surrounding it, stigmas around mental health, people who will avoid it. Veterans, our first responders, just to name a few. We'll also have several special guests to help navigate some of these topics and provide insight from them.

Brittany:

Speaking of special guests in our very first episode of the day, we have our practice owner, both of our clinical supervisors when we were baby residents in counseling, my supervisor when I was a little baby graduate student Christina E Rock professional counselor, licensed substance abuse treatment provider, substance abuse counselor, certified clinical trauma professional certified sex offender treatment professional master addictions counselor and licensed mental health counselor. She is licensed in the state of Virginia, New York, and supervises residents and students and is MDS certified in EMDR Effectionately known to all of us here as mother. She is with us today to give us her backstory of her creation of got your six counseling and her passion for helping veterans and first responders and her love for all of us here as her children of the practice.

Christina:

Thank you. First off, thank you both for letting me jump on this first episode and kind of talk about myself. I did ask to be on this episode because we are talking about the genesis of Got Your Six counseling. And who better to talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly, but the person who wrangles the cats and orchestrates them a lot at chaos? Well, wow. Brittany actually does. That's Brittany right now. But who better to talk about it than the person who started it all? I guess before we get into the practice, I should talk more about myself. Although I feel like Brittany did a job of listing out the million credentials that I kind of keep hanging onto.

Brittany:

The alphabet soup.

Christina:

I joined the army in 2000. Thought it would be my life, realized it wasn't. And got out in 2011. I had a master's at that time in forensic psychology.'cause I thought friend therapy. Wow. I thought therapy was stupid. it wasn't, and started working in the carceral settings, jails, prisons, halfway houses, and a very short stint. not living at a psych hospital. with active duty military, I then moved to community mental health, got another master's in clinical mental health counseling so I could get licensed. And that's where I was meant to be in community mental health. Until again, it wasn't, I never thought I'd work in private practice because again, that was for the walking well, which it isn't. So this whole professional life of mine has been me finding out what was never meant to me, meant for me until I found what was, I've basically been a trauma therapist my entire professional career. So it's been about 15 years now. honestly, that's where I find the most joy. that small light in the dark space, keeping the space safe for my survivors to work through their shit and

Peggy:

That means you can.

Christina:

yeah, that's fucked. Supervision is also a deep love of mine. I find it so humbling to work with a new clinician who thinks they know shit and actually doesn't, and then watching them build themselves up, gather skills, and emerge ready to take on the world's mental health problems. It truly is an honor. So I first started got your six. After working at another private practice and realizing that there were things I wanted to do, ways I wanted to work that were just better on my own. Sure I could see the clients I wanted to see, but it was a generalist practice for generalist providers who work with the general public. I really needed and valued asset. But when you're marketing to and working with a first responder or veteran, the generalist approach won't work. You know, a mental health patient myself, I've never found the whole, oh, that must have been so scary. Real approach. Really helpful. Yeah, it was fucking scary. No shit. I also saw providers who were cautious around veterans and attempted to put first responders in like this civilian box, and that, quite frankly just doesn't work. a practice that has the backs of veterans and first responders was kind of a no brainer. That. And I like saying Fuck a lot and figured I could do that without reproach if I own the damn place. So here we are. I wanted a space where ethical evidence-based treatment was the forefront, but close alongside it came a sense of understanding that I think our population really misses from the civilian world. There's an analogy that I like to use about how we relate sheep. Dogs protect sheep from wolves. They mill about, they do their job, and the sheep never question how they do their job. They're just thankful the job is done. don't know what it's like to be a sheep dog, nor does the sheep dog know what it's like to be a sheep, and they shouldn't. But when the sheep dog retires and it can't do its job anymore, they can't be sheep. It's biologically impossible. So the shepherd has to make sure that they're cared for so they don't become wolf. they did wolf ship protecting the sheep from the wolves in the first place. It's there, it's simmering. So to expect a sheep dog to live among the sheep as a sheep would be unrealistic. They just need a different kind of approach from other sheep dogs and those who understand what that life is like. So we do eye movement, desensitization and reprocessing, which is EMDR, dialectical behavioral therapy, DBT, medication management parts work, mindfulness, and we feed it through a tube of reality, cuss words, sarcasm, and unconditional positive regard. you guys didn't ask to be traumatized. You didn't ask to suffer, and you certainly don't need someone with a live laugh, love sticker on the fucking wall. I can't talk about got your six though, without talking about its backbone. I remember early January of 2020 as I'm painting the walls and scraping the old paint, that was like sprayed onto the outlets and the light switches like. Who does that with a screwdriver, hoping I didn't like slip and electrocute myself in the process. I was pulling like 18, 20 hour days finding that sometimes like I had left trash out in like the waiting area to take out the next day. Or shavings that were on the floor that I had left intending to clean them up or missing. It's not that I was saving that stuff, but you know, and I figured someone was coming in and taking care of it, although I did find out later that that suite was haunted as fuck. Uh, but anyway, one night I came into the suite and I saw this cleaning cart in the hallway and there was this woman, Sophia she would say hello to me every night. She would like wait for me to get there so I could think she could check on me. I don't know. she sometimes would cook for me. She'd leave food for me in the suite. And she always made sure that the suite was cleaned and vacuumed and the trash was taken out at the end of the day. She started out as our cleaning lady. But once I found out that she had a certificate in medical office work, I hired her as soon as I financially could. She is a fucking treasure. Sophia is our office manager now, and I swear to God, the next person who calls our office and is mean to her deserves all the smoke from karma. Like all the smoke, have cussed out staff who were disrespectful to her. I have called an all hands meeting to cuss out staff who were disrespectful to her. Nobody knows how much she actually does, and it's wild how she like still shows up and loves to work here. I've lost count of how many times I've fired her. Of course not seriously. And she just looks at me and is like, okay, I'll see you tomorrow. And then like, goes on with her day. She didn't give us a blurb. So what I will say about her is that she holds down absolutely everything that has got your six. She remembers things that I've long forgotten. She makes the best pupusas on the planet and she handles all the chaos of this work with aplomb. Every time she leaves for vacation and that like one horrible time when she left for a few months and we all had like an apoplectic meltdown I am reminded of how essential she is to us. Brittany, who is my clinical director, was my student when she was a little baby, but I'm gonna let her go first and introduce herself. So Brittany, tell all the people all the cool things about you.

Brittany:

God, where do I begin? I had a hard time finding a site. actually the first person I had backed out on me during residency in grad school, I'm on Facebook at the airport looking for a site and I'm like, please, somebody help me. And Christina comments on my Facebook post and, said, I'm taking students. And I was driving two hours from my house to Duney office to, to three days a week towards the end, to get my hours. Couldn't find a place to end up there in residency. And so that's how we ended up with our second office. Thank you for that. Um, but yeah, that's kind of how I ended up here in the right place at the right time, thankfully. But a journey. A good one. I love it here. I keep saying I'll be here until one of us dies. Lovingly, of course. But I, I do, I love it here. I love working with my veterans. I love working with the first responders. I recently did the CISM training, which I also enjoy in a weird, torturous way. but I do love working with them. I love working with kids with trauma and doing the sand tray and the EMDR with them too. So, um, the clinical director thing is something I'm throwing myself into. So I, yeah, I guess we're getting there. I'm like, I don't feel like I'm doing anything, but I guess I was kinda doing that before in sort of a way here at, in the Colonial Heights office. So, I feel like we all kind of mesh so well that it kind of just flows. And I second the, uh. The issue with Sophia don't be mean to her. So,'cause she is a rose among the thorns here. She sure is. is our, she is our heart and soul

Christina:

is it my turn to talk about you love that for, love

Brittany:

I guess it is.

Christina:

So these guys are gonna hear their intro for the first time.'cause I wouldn't read it to them before.

Brittany:

I love to hear you talk about us.

Christina:

So by far Brittany is my most expensive clinician. Hands down. She's worth every penny, from buying her a whole ass office so she can stay with the practice to moving the office to a much more expensive place so I can then later support the purchase of biofeedback shit that I'm gonna have to buy. It's certainly been a journey, level, but I will say the level of stress that I no longer feel having you run the practice in my physical absence from got your six is, it's such a blessing. It, the other day it's like putting a weight down. That like you didn't even know you were carrying. So thank you. don't get too cocky. Don't let it get to your head.

Brittany:

It's my joy. You know, I hate to see you stressed,

Christina:

I

Brittany:

so.

Christina:

always notices. She's like, there's a disturbance in the force. If I don't put like the appropriate number of emojis or like appropriately attend to like the 76th meme that she sent me that day or reel or some shit, then she's like, there's a disturbance in the force. Are you okay? And I have to be like, yes, I'm, I'm fine.

Brittany:

I'm like, are you unwell?

Christina:

what you say. Yes. So, yes.

Brittany:

I can just tell.

Christina:

Brittany. Uh, we've been together for four, almost five years now, and hand to God at the end of her supervision, I was like, I am tired of listening to you. And I caught myself saying that to Janelle the other day. I was like, I'm, I'm not gonna lie. I'm, I'm tired of talking to you. I, I need you to get licensed to go away.

Brittany:

My response always was, but I'm just a baby.

Christina:

you're not.

Brittany:

Don't cut me loose.

Christina:

so yeah, so thank you Brittany for everything that you do. And you're right, you'll probably, we'll probably be together till one of us dies. And if it's me first, then I'm just gonna will you everything, and then you're staying with it until you die and then you can give it to somebody else.

Brittany:

I'll take it. It's mine.

Christina:

Um, Peggy, your work wife, you're up

Brittany:

My work wife.

Christina:

Yes. Both of your work wives.

Peggy:

Oh, let's see. So I've been doing this for four years now, but I came across, got your six on a therapy group for Virginia therapist and my second semester it was like, this is what I want. And I sought out Christina and asked for an interview and she was like, you got time today. Yes, yes, I do.

Brittany:

How's today?

Peggy:

And, you know, made the proposition, look, I'm not in that area, but I will do whatever it takes to please let me do this telehealth, because this is my population, this is what I want to do. Um, e so eloquently just dropping f bombs during the interview as good as that was on me, but that's how I ended up here. And then, you know, my husband was like, Hey, I don't wanna stay in Virginia. Let me move home, please. And then it was in all desperation, and Brittany saw me go through like all, every single feeling of, I don't, I don't wanna do this. I please, I want to keep my job and making the utmost most terrifying, horrific slideshow of, please let me keep my job.

Christina:

I remember that slideshow. That shit was

Brittany:

She is not exaggerating in the slightest.

Christina:

like, I sent you a slideshow.

Brittany:

She's like, do you think. Do you think Christina would be weirded out if I sent her a slideshow about like, please let me keep my job if I moved?

Peggy:

Just because I was that desperate and that, that it meant this much to keep it and to keep going with it because I loved the practice, my job, and everybody in it that much, and it just meant that much to me. And I just, I've always had the devotion here and I, I love my patients and I love everything about this, and I've gotten to have Brittany, uh, my emotional support human every day because of it.

Brittany:

It kind of just happened. It was like one day she just called me and then it never stopped.

Christina:

Yep.

Brittany:

I can set my watch by her phone calls in the morning.

Christina:

And I know when not to call either one of you, because I know you're on the phone with one another, or if I do, because I have to.'cause that's the only time I have, I know I'm interrupting the marital conversation and so I'm like, I'm, I'm so sorry I gotta bust in here.

Brittany:

Both of us are like, I gotta go. Mom's calling. Like, we will immediately end the conversation for a phone call from you.'cause it's like an immediate ulcer. It's like, what's happening?

Christina:

I have softened quite a bit over the years. Thank you very much.

Brittany:

It has gotten better. You have gotten nicer.

Christina:

I have, I think it's coming with age.

Brittany:

Yeah. You've gotten, you've gotten a lot softer.

Christina:

could still, I could still make a supervising

Brittany:

Like, I see you with the students now and I'm like, like, be meaner.

Christina:

my students anymore, though. I can't They're your students anyways.

Brittany:

Yeah. There are students and like, I try to channel the meanness, but it's just not the same, you know, it's, it's not the same.

Christina:

worn down by years and years of this and just be bitter and tired and not have time

Brittany:

The trauma.

Christina:

is, it is the trauma. Um, I met, I met Peggy obviously, like she said when she was interviewing for a job. And I did, I, I remember that conversation where I was like, you have time today. And it was like, and I remember thinking like, who is this weirdo who like is begging me for a job? And, and I remember like when we were in the interview, she's pitching this whole thing of like, I don't live in the area. I'm out here, you know, blah, blah, blah, but I'll do whatever it takes. I wanna be a provider. And I, at the time we had started to like fully emerge from Covid and everybody wanted in person. Everybody wanted to come in the office.'cause they were tired of staring at their family members and they were tired of working from home. And so I remember thinking like, I don't think I have enough clients to give her a full-time telehealth caseload. How, like, how the hell is this gonna work? And I, I also realized that I, I had to figure that out. Like I had to have Peggy work for me. I had to have her on the team. So. I figured it out. And I remember there was one time where, you know, she said, okay I'm not getting enough clients. Like I can make the drive to the Colonial Heights office. And I was like, holy shit. but we figured it out. We made it work. And she's pretty much been full ever since. While sneakily adding more people to her caseload, which she needs to stop for healthy boundaries. I watch, I watch

Brittany:

I told her today that I was gonna

Peggy:

I, I don't know what y'all are talking about.

Brittany:

to give you not any more patients. No more. You're done.

Christina:

Peggy, you have been one of the most energetic, spicy, organized, wonderful humans. The energy that you have for like putting together this podcast, I sent you something and like within four hours you're like, yep, I've already figured it out. And I'm like, Jesus Christ. Okay. Sometimes, sometimes I need you to dial it back to titch, but somehow you make it all work and I don't know how, and I am. Blown away by where all this energy and organizational skills and like frontal lobe function comes from.'cause I don't have that. Um, but I I know that our students and the program in general got your six in general just runs much better you behind the helm for that. So thank you. I appreciate the shit out of that. and I think, you know, as I get ready to talk about the rest of our clinicians, everybody except one has submitted their own little blurb. Only one person did not, and I gave her shit about it in supervision earlier this week. But before I get onto them, I, I do wanna say that like you two, even before I gave you like official titles and official things you, you earned them hands down. You, Brittany had already kind of been, I mean, she had been running the Colonial Heights practice. She had been doing all of that stuff, Peggy, you were already involved with, okay, let's do this and let's add this to this, and I think this would make things better. Two of you have really just been instrumental, like dove straight in and I don't, I don't hire shitty clinicians. I don't keep shitty students. I, I don't, I don't believe in that. But you guys are hands down, like the reason why I could pick up and Sophia too, who's not here, but I'm speaking to you guys. Um, you, you two, Sophia and the team in general, but you two, especially with Sophia, have, have really just allowed for me to go, I'm gonna be as hands off as I can finish this degree and finish this internship and then come back. And I genuinely I could not do it without you guys. So thank you very much. Okay. That's the last warm and fuzzy shit.

Brittany:

We very much wanted to give you the time and the space to like do that. We were like, how are we gonna make this easy for mom while she's gone?

Christina:

It's only because you guys want me to come back and

Brittany:

We need her to focus

Christina:

kids

Peggy:

Yes.

Brittany:

and A DHD,

Christina:

All right. That's probably the last nice thing I'm gonna

Brittany:

but we wanted you to not stress.

Christina:

appreciate that and it, it genuinely has given me the space to like, like you guys have seen. So for our podcast listeners that don't know I started the practice in 2020 while simultaneously buying, this is Covid. I opened the practice before Covid, and I applied for a doctoral program before Covid. I. While we were in the absolute like height of Covid, I bought a house I interviewed for and like four different doctoral programs and was accepted and selected one. Grew the practice, moved into a bigger suite, like the 2020 to 2021 was a fucking wild time, hands down. And so I am finishing up my doctorate degree so that I can add testing, um, neuropsych and forensic testing. The VA in DC has a waiting list apparently to do neuropsych testing. He like sent me an email

Brittany:

Okay.

Christina:

are you doing testing yet? I'm like, no, not till like October at the early. She's like, oh, well I have a list for you. I'm like, ma'am, I have six more months. And she's no, wait. I'm like, okay. So yeah.

Brittany:

Thank you.

Christina:

Appreciate you.

Peggy:

Everybody else's list is 12 months, so I'm like,

Christina:

all

Peggy:

you're quick.

Christina:

And like within the VA system, just in general, and I think our veterans and family members can appreciate this, if you find somebody in the VA system who's responsive and not a total twat, hang on to them. Fucking send them a Christmas card.'cause they are a gem. They are a diamond in the rough, they are that needle in the haystack that you cannot find. So Ms. Hazel is a delight at the DCVA anyways. Um, alright, now I'm gonna talk about everybody else we work with, including our students. um, now we have Hailey. Who is holding shit down in our Colonial Heights office with Brittany. This is what Hailey had to say about herself. She was the first person I love her so much. She was the first person, like within a minute, like maybe 10 minutes of me sending out that email of like, Hey guys, send me a blurb. Boom, there it was. so this is what she has to say. I'm Hailey Swoope, a resident in counseling at Got your six for the past year and a half. Working towards my licensure in the Colonial Heights office. I mainly serve individuals in life, transitions the LGBTQIA plus community, and enjoy working with Neurodivergent Folks, are in somatic based therapy or therapy, using the body to integrate life experiences, mindfulness training, and a touch of internal family systems therapy because who doesn't like to talk about themselves? think my favorite thing about being a clinician is helping people put words to the experiences they're having. Those eureka moments are what I live for. She is, she's such a goddamn delight. Adorable. I, yes. Like anxiety that she had over making sure she wished me a happy birthday on like four, the four days she thought it was my birthday this year and it wasn't. And then ensuring she got it right when it actually was my birthday and like apologizing the whole time. Or when we had that like one awful rough week of transitions for like everybody in the practice. And she like apologized during her own supervision with me because she didn't start off with supervision by asking me how I was managing it all. Like, ma'am, this is your time, this is your supervision. Anyway, I don't, I don't think she ever wanted to be a trauma therapist. Like she didn't come to got your six to be like, I wanna work with veterans who have trauma

Brittany:

No,

Christina:

not even the slightest. Um, and I remember the

Brittany:

Not at all.

Christina:

heard her say, fuck, I like stopped and I was like. Do my ears deceive me. but she has hands down she's risen to the challenge. She's held her own with these veterans. We are a spicy, unruly bunch and she is like just doing the damn thing. And I really, I really enjoy her and I'm glad that she has continued to tolerate us over the last year and a half and hopefully continues to tolerate us for times to go

Brittany:

She is the shiny rainbow amongst us black cats.

Christina:

percent. A thousand percent. And she's got like a little touch of her own black hat energy, which I appreciate.'Cause she

Brittany:

Yeah.

Christina:

retriever.

Peggy:

Is Calico.

Christina:

Calico. Yeah, I like that. I

Brittany:

Yeah. Yeah.

Christina:

Yeah. Yeah. She's a delight

Brittany:

Every day she comes in and she's like, how are you? Are you well? And then like randomly, she'll text me if she leaves before me and she's like, I left you cookies on the counter. I'm like, thank you.

Christina:

now. I want her to leave.

Brittany:

I love that for me.

Christina:

Fuck.

Brittany:

And they're not like store-bought cookies, right? Like these are like homemade cookies. She's like, what's your favorite cookie? And I'm like, sugar cookie. And she'll leave me like a whole container of sugar cookies. I'm like, thank you.

Christina:

can't

Brittany:

It's great.

Christina:

because every time we do something horrible happens in her house, like when we had the summer party and like she caught her kitchen on fire making, what was she making pigs in a blanket or something.

Brittany:

Pigs in a blanket. Yeah. And then she texted me one morning while she was in, like after she had supervision with you, and she's like, I just caught my kitchen on fire while I was in supervision with Christina. I was like, ma'am, it was meal prepping and I forgot about the stove. I was like, girl,

Christina:

set a reminder in our supervision of like, are you forgetting anything? Just to make sure that she, because like you guys do that to me too, like, you'll be like, you forgot this in the middle of something. And I'm like, fuck. You're right. Yep. Well,

Brittany:

she's great. We love her.

Christina:

Uh, Jenelle. I was apparently decided not to submit anything, I gave her shit about on Monday. And she was like, oh, I totally forgot. I'm like, yep. So ha ha. So now I'm gonna make some shit up about her. I, uh, I remember when she applied for her internship. So Janelle is one of my residents. She will gre, she will be done with her LP or residency hours in three weeks. We just did the count today. So if you are listening and you are one of her clients fucking show up. Do not cancel, do not know. Show, show up, let's get her licensed. don't think you guys understand the stress that that puts on residents when they're ready to like winding down their time. Jesus, anyways,

Brittany:

explains why she's putting more slots on her calendar.

Christina:

she's,

Brittany:

I was like, gosh, Jenelle's adding more availability on her calendar. That explains it.

Christina:

trying to get it done. Um, but I

Brittany:

It.

Christina:

first applied to, for her practicum and internship with us, I, I looked at her school and I was like, shit. But she showed up and showed herself like in the, before the interview, she was a self-starter, motivated, entirely too anxious. But like just showed up with this great energy of like, I'm here, I'm ready to learn. Do with me what you will. This is what I wanna do. She is definitely the classiest dressed out of all of us, and she gives such like

Brittany:

Yes.

Christina:

Lane mom vibes. It kills me like sometimes I forget that I'm older than she is. Um, and not in like a bad way. She just gives off like this very like, classy, statuesque woman and it's wild. She's also gonna surprise you with how. How spicy she can get. Uh, she will be our newest LPC here in a couple months actually in a couple weeks now. So a huge congratulations to her'cause she is, she's amazing. She also, and a lot of people don't know this, um, she has single-handedly in the Dres office, while I am not there, been managing and holding down the logistical piece of onboarding our new students there. It's been incredible to have her support. And I just remember when I, I asked her, I was like, Hey, could you just do me this thing at, you know, and she was like, absolutely. And we'll check in with me, like, is anybody new coming? Do I need this? Is what I'm tracking Is this, I mean, phenomenal. Absolutely phenomenal. I am, I'm excited for her to become an LPC. I'm excited for her to start supervising students when she is ready. And that will be amazing. So, uh,

Brittany:

Making those binders is no joke, so we are very thankful for her to make those binders for us.

Christina:

'cause that shit's a pain in the ass. All right, onto Chastity again. You sent something to me in an email. I'm gonna read it. This is my blurb. Obviously it's last minute because I've been severely overthinking it and rewrote it about a hundred times. Chastity Biling says, I started working with Got your Six as a student, and quickly found my passion in working with veterans first responders and their families on navigating the various challenges specific to the population. I have been a military spouse myself for over 14 years and have three children of my own. So for me, this work is personal and my experience far surpasses what they teach you in graduate school. See, I told you guys, I specialize in working with couples, families, and individuals to reconnect, rebuild, trust, and navigate the unique stress that comes with service. Real talk. No judgment, just support for the relationships that matter most. Uh. I remember when Chastity, God, chastity was like the calamity kid. Like, do you remember all like the bad shit that just kept happening to her and she like navigated it beautifully. She'd come in and she'd be like, yeah, so I got to a car accident and my car's totaled, but I'm here. And I'm like, what the fuck? Like,

Peggy:

Why are you here?

Christina:

right. Um, I remember when Chastity, she was winding down her internship, um, and I kind of have a standing rule where if you're a student of mine, I never offer you a position or ask if you want a job, and it takes the pressure off of you to feel obligated to say anything or not hurt my feelings or whatever. Um, and so it came around the time to for her to either ask me for a job or tell me she was looking elsewhere and we're in supervision. She's sitting in my office on my couch and like all of a sudden she started to get super emotional and I was like, oh God, what is happening? She was trying to come up with the courage to tell me that she wanted to work for us. her spouse who thought he was getting orders to Quantico was actually getting orders to Lajeune, because why would the military follow through on the promise that they give you? Right. They're just gonna fuck you any way they

Brittany:

Mm-hmm.

Christina:

Um, so she was trying to like, come up with the courage to be like, I have to move to Camp Lajeune in two months. Um, and she, she was feeling very stuck and I remember she's like telling me this whole thing and she's like beside herself. Um, and at that point, you know, Peggy had already sent me her PowerPoint presentation, Alabama. And so I was like, yeah, okay, that'll work. And the look of like straight up disbelief on her face, like she like stopped and stared at me and I was like, yeah, I'll just make you a telehealth clinician too. And it was wild. Um, like of course I'm gonna do that. First of all, you work with couples and none of us want to, um. And we're, we're so lucky to have that. But also, again, she's another one who, you know, fucking shows up and does the damn thing. And, and I think that's, that's so amazing. Um, I am, yeah. And, and all of the chaos that went with like, moving down there and getting resettled and having to deal with all of that has just been, and she still shows up every day. So we're very lucky to have her.

Peggy:

None of us wanna deal with couples.

Christina:

couples, not a single one of us.

Brittany:

except for that group soup where she got confused and was like running on her treadmill. And we were like, where's Chasity?

Christina:

what happened?

Peggy:

She forgot to show up and I was like, cha,

Brittany:

the way. Yeah, we made it all the way to the end and we were like, wait, where's Chasity? Like we forgot. She like, we didn't even realize she wasn't there. So Peggy called her and was like, weren't you in group soup? And she's like, what do you mean? I thought today was a self-care day. And we were like, that was last week. And she's like, oh my God. I was just like, write on my treadmill and like doing this CEU. We were like, oh well you can still count and you did the CEU. But she was like, I'll just read it on my treadmill.

Christina:

It's amazing.

Brittany:

So that was the one time she didn't show up, but like she showed up for herself, just not for us.

Christina:

in this,

Peggy:

she showed up for herself.

Christina:

you gotta pick one over the other.

Brittany:

So I messaged Janelle, I was like, Hey, just go ahead and like write Chastity down as like a CEU thing and not like as actual group suit. She's like LOL.

Christina:

is hilarious.

Brittany:

forgot to tell you that.

Christina:

That's hilarious. She cracks me up.

Brittany:

I love you Chastity.

Christina:

We do. Um, all right. Reagan our newest, still gonna count her. The newest resident counseling we have Tara, but she's a resident of social work, so is our newest resident counseling. This is what she has to say. I work primarily in trauma-informed care for adults, teens, and children. My therapeutic modalities are centered around a psychodynamic lens, often incorporating DBT and IFS to foster an eclectic approach to healing. I enjoy this work because I can continuously learn and evolve to be, to better understand and help my patients and relate to the world around me. My passion for working at Got Your Six comes from growing up in a military household and wanting to provide support to military personnel and their families. She is our newest Brittany, minus the financial cost to me personally. Um, which I tell her all the time. The level of anxiety and energy that she brings to this profession is hilarious. The amount of times I have had to tell her to stop buying therapy books, and when she was a student, I was like, you're not allowed to go to any more trainings. You have to finish one training. You have to finish two trainings. two months and then you can buy another training. And she was like, I sort of already bought one.

Brittany:

never put me on restriction though,

Christina:

had, I almost had to You're you were more of a book buyer. You were more of a

Brittany:

yeah, I was a book.

Christina:

she's a, she's a Pessie, CEU training person. I remember when she called when she, we were in supervision one day, or maybe she texted me, I can't remember. Um, and she was like, so, um, once I finished this certification, I'm gonna, I bought this, I bought the CCTP cert. I was like, absolutely not. Stop, stop what you're doing. She's like, what? I already bought it. I'm like, I zero fucks. Stop it. I will tell you when you get to go do that, stop it. and, and I think that goes to like just how much she wanted to, to learn and be, be best able to help the people that we work with. I was afraid though, that she was like going without food to like buy her trainings'cause she was a student and like that shit's not cheap and you don't get paid as a student. and I had to keep reminding her that like getting good at one or two things is more effective than knowing a lot about a lot of little things. And she, she has absolutely done that. She has dove right in and is, is doing fantastically. and of course, you know, she always brings the young attractive girl energy like at our Christmas party where those two guys would not leave her the fuck alone. Yep.

Brittany:

Yes.

Christina:

We also have another newbie, Tara, who is our resident, newest resident in social work. She's not the first social worker I've ever hired, but it's always a fun moment to navigate the, like, minutia of mo makes our professions different and being like, I don't know how you guys do it. This is how we do it. How do you guys do it? She's a resident in social work. She's a navy veteran. Didn't give us a blurb, but I'm pretty sure that's'cause she started after I asked it. So there's that. been with us for all of like four seconds, I think. Um, I think this is like her second week, right? She's like super duper du.

Brittany:

Yeah, like literally her second day

Christina:

so I

Brittany:

today.

Christina:

personal story, uh, because I like met her for her interview and then I've had like two conversations with her. But as we continue to get to know her, I'm sure that I will have something wild and completely out of pocket to say about her. So stay tuned for more. We have another hero amongst our midst. Uh, her name is Sabina. And this is what she has to say. Hi, I'm Sabina and I do medication management. I'm a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and have been with the practice for one and a half years. I was born and raised in Germany and I'm the spouse of a recently retired soldier. I didn't know he recently retired. Like when.

Peggy:

Like just a couple months ago.

Christina:

need to come

Brittany:

Yeah.

Christina:

Um, together we have two young boys. I see patients of all ages and assist with the full range of mental health concerns. passionate about helping patients feel like the best version of themselves and believe that medications together with psychotherapy yield the best results. If she ever quits, it's gonna be Peggy's fault.

Peggy:

I am sorry, but like, look, my patients need help.

Brittany:

Peggy sends her everyone, every single one of her patient.

Christina:

here with me in therapy. You should also go get beds. Go see s

Brittany:

Yeah.

Christina:

fine.

Brittany:

If you

Peggy:

I keep

Brittany:

Peggy's count, uh, Sabine's.

Christina:

look, meds are important. If you need meds, you need meds. Like there's no shade to that. If you need meds, you need meds. I'm just saying.

Brittany:

Yes.

Christina:

I remember.

Brittany:

Peggy's gonna send you to Sabine.

Christina:

I remember the first time I met with her for her interview. I, I met her and I thought, wow, she is a very quiet, demure human and I don't know how the fuck she's gonna fit in with us. And then she like showed up and started working and I was like, I, who showed up to my interview?'cause that is not her. Incredibly professional, a lovely human and so smart. She's no nonsense. Again, she fits in very well with us. I have made fun of her office so many times because she has like nothing hanging on the walls and there's nothing in her shelves. And I swear to God, if I come back and there is still nothing in her fucking shelves are hanging on her walls, I am going to decorate it for her because that shit is an eyesore. And I recognize being a nurse and working in a hospital. You're used to austere environments. But ma'am. So of the Christmas party with Reagan and we had the after party at the house that I rented. I think she showed up very much one of us. And I, I love that. And her husband is probably the most golden retriever of the lot.

Brittany:

Yeah,

Christina:

he is a riot and he is welcome at And he got your

Brittany:

he's one of us now.

Christina:

one of us. Uh, yeah. So we are very thankful to have her. And it's, it's always fascinating to me when I see, like I'm on several listservs and people will reach out and they'll be like, oh, we need a med manager who takes this insurance. And I am almost always the only one who's like, I have one at my practice. People are like, what? So she can never leave. She is stuck with us. Um, I actually have a sticker that I'm going to send her that says, you can't leave a MA you work here.'Cause that is factual. All right on to students. My favorite So Abby is up first.'Cause she's, I think, the oldest of our students, the most tenured. So I'm gonna say what she, I'm gonna read what she has to say. Hi, my name is Abby Brown. I have been a clinical student intern at, got year six counseling for about a year now. I'll be graduating from Wake Forest University with my master's in clinical mental health counseling in August. I am interested in somatic therapy, internal family systems and crisis management. I have been a police officer for a little over eight years, am a member of my department's peer support team and chose to pursue a degree in counseling to help other first responders find mental health services. I enjoy being able to sit with clients and help them find their way through the challenges life brings. Uh, I'm gonna let Peggy talk about Abby'cause that is her child. But my 2 cents on her quickly is that has navigated the last year and a half way better than. I would've expected. And not a reflection of anything that like she's lacking or like wasn't doing, but just a reflection of like how much she showed up to us already dealing and how

Brittany:

Yeah.

Christina:

piled on. I have consistently been impressed with her. So, um, with that, I'm gonna give Peggy the floor.

Peggy:

She has done so well, and I love to see the growth that she has had, but I also hate that I cannot bully her enough to actually become a resident next year.

Christina:

to fucking work with us. Period. End of story. Somebody needs to stage an intervention

Brittany:

We've tried. We've tried in several ways of like, oh, you get, you get this, you get that, and she's like, okay.

Peggy:

I am waiting for her next two years to go by

Christina:

she will.

Peggy:

so that she comes back.

Christina:

I'm gonna fucking go find her.

Peggy:

But to see her go from these different things is gonna be to develop in, in both ways, because like you have to have the certain functionality to be an active duty cop and to hold the space for counseling and everything. So to see her juggle both and to handle it, the way she's handling it has just been amazing. So I love her.

Brittany:

very young mom, she

Peggy:

Mm-hmm.

Brittany:

all three very, very well,

Christina:

Yep.

Brittany:

and she's like the best intake coordinator aside for myself,

Peggy:

That's the only reason we don't wanna see her go is because we can't have nobody not do this.

Christina:

not gonna do it as a resident.

Peggy:

Yes. But she would have like this, she would have a space between like student and residency and be like, you do that for a month.

Christina:

we wait. Unless, who the hell? Oh no. It was Reagan who got her license, who got her residency license in like 48 hours. I was like, Jesus Christ. I've never seen it so fast in my life. God bless. Yeah. So Abby's a delight. Um, all right, Dave, he is about to transition into the world of residency. This is his email

Brittany:

And the only man that's made it.

Christina:

that's Look, that was gonna be my portion. You gotta wait for me to get to my portion when I, when I

Brittany:

Okay. Go ahead. Sorry.

Christina:

So this is what he has to say for himself. Uh, I know you said this is not rocket science. Rocket science would actually be easier for me. Here goes Dave Coe has joined the got your six team as a student intern from William and Mary. He recently retired after 24 years as a submarine sailor in the Navy. I thought they were called submariners. I don't know, and is working towards serving others in a new capacity as a licensed professional counselor, Dave is passionate about supporting fellow veterans and facilitating positive change while initially focused on addiction, his clinical interests have expanded to include trauma, moral injury, and relationship challenges. And also like Peggy spoiled the surprise already. He is the only male who has made it, who has made it through internship.

Brittany:

But that's because of Peggy. She was like, he's gonna make it. I'm determined he's gonna make it.'cause I was like, Hmm, don't make it here.

Christina:

green

Brittany:

a sea of estrogen.

Christina:

and he is a whole ass green flag. And he, he has done phenomenal. So as I previously said, interns have to approach me if they're interested in a job, and so he did. I. He more like reached out because he wanted to like, find out what it, what would look like before he makes that decision. And I will honestly say that I spent the first like 10 minutes of my conversation with him wondering what the hell that map was behind. I am not ashamed to say it. I was like, what the fuck is that? And I swear to god, Dave, I was listening when you were talking. I promise. I promise. And I kept looking at it and being like, that map looks really familiar. I know that. What the, how do I fucking know that map? And I was like, it's islands. What is that? And then like in the last five minutes of the interview, it hit me. It was Hawaii, which was my first duty station. Uh, so I promised Dave I was attending to our conversation. I also have a touch of frontal lobe dysfunction, so my It's fine. I am a human being with my own flaws. But yeah, I, I just remember being like, what the fuck is that map? And then when I realized it was Hawaii, I was like, oh shit, okay, now I can relax. Uh, so there's that.

Brittany:

We know you like this. Dave doesn't

Christina:

Dave does not, I promise. Dave, I was listening. I'm a good person. I care about you. also my first introduction to Dave was when I gave the group supervision on BDSM and non-traditional relationships, I was like my guy, I am so sorry. Welcome. We're gonna talk about pegging and being

Peggy:

It was fabulous.

Brittany:

way to feed him through the fire, you

Peggy:

I loved it.

Brittany:

through the fire hose.

Christina:

to Got your six. And

Peggy:

I.

Christina:

think the very next week

Brittany:

Hello?

Christina:

offending behavior and Paraphilias. And I was

Brittany:

Yep,

Christina:

welcome to Got your six. Yes. And he's navigated it through.

Brittany:

he got a very good welcome.

Christina:

He had an interesting initiation.

Peggy:

I love it because like the way he is burnt out and functional at the same time, navigating his whole, like into his next step and like what, how he is doing it next

Christina:

understand how I function for the last five years.

Peggy:

yeah, functional burnout is a

Christina:

I'm gonna talk about Hillary a little bit. Um, she will be officially, which is exciting, rejoining us in July after she deals with some school related drama, which. I'm gonna just scootie on past that. Um,

Brittany:

Yep.

Christina:

I've only met her once. So Peggy has done a phenomenal job in like, the influx of students that we are now collecting, um, which is phenomenal. And I think a testament to Peggy's work is our training director. Right away when I met Hillary, she gave me the impression of someone who's just like, ready to be here, jump in, get her hands dirty and you know, she course has expectations, which we all do and, you know, desires of where she wants to take her career, which I think is good. Um, she's also showing up with a, but I'm really not sure like what I'm doing. So here I am, which I really liked. And I respect that. I respect that because like. Not just with us as a practice, but also with the population that we serve. You're being fed through a fire hose on day one. Like there is no like hitting the pause button and like collecting your thoughts. It is just a thousand miles an hour straight out the gate. Off we go. And she's kind of showed up to that, which I really appreciate. So I, I look forward to her joining us. We also have another student who's joining us. What, like next week or something, right? Um,

Brittany:

Yeah.

Peggy:

week Crystal.

Christina:

Um, and in full disclosure, I've forgotten her name like three times. So hopefully, and this is what happens when I don't like supervise the students anymore, like I have passed that. That on or on to both of you? And I don't, I, I forget their names. So Crystal, I, I promise if you're listening to this at some point I will remember your name because I will get my shit together at some point. And I don't know anything about her, but she'll be joining us like in a week or two. So I'm quite sure, again, much like Tara, um, I will have some shit to say about her later. I do. However and that is, we, we just recently said goodbye to Megan who's moving to fabulous places. Finished up her internship with us and yes, and did in fact ask me for a job. But I, I will open up a telehealth practice in, uh, Alabama, and I'll do it in North Carolina. I'm not fucking doing it in Italy. I, navigating business regulations is like just more than I can handle. So there's, there's that.

Brittany:

No, especially right now. Come on now.

Christina:

So Riva Dehi to her Chow ati, and uh, when you come back, let us know. I think one of the things that surprised me the most about this whole thing was like the anxiety, like what the fuck is with the anxiety about like, writing about yourself. Like all of you guys are a riot. All I asked was share a little something about yourself professionally. Give us like a fun fact, like a tip. Like how do you want to show up, right? For, for the community. Um, and I think my favorite thing about all of this is the knowledge that every single one of you, you two included, submitted something, but like the anxiety that showed up with it was guys putting energy in, you guys taking the time and being intentional and purposeful about how you wanted to show up for. Our community, for current clients, past clients, future clients, potential clients and those who are just chiming in to listen to therapists clown around and be absolutely out of pocket and ridiculous. Like was anxiety about it. And, and this isn't like your normal garden variety anxiety, right? This is like intentional anxiety of like, I want to show up the right way so that how I am and who I am is, is properly captured. Which I, I think, speaks so highly to all of you guys. I said it before, I don't hire shitty clinicians. I don't hang on to shitty students. Um, and if I accidentally hire a shitty clinician,'cause I've done that, I terminate them quickly. Uh, I think, you know, in. Every time. Okay. I, I said I wasn't gonna be all soft and mushy before, but I'm gonna be one more time. I think every time take a step back and like, reflect on you guys and reflect on the work that we do and, all of you individually, like, I, I absolutely love what I do. I, I could not have imagined myself here 10 years ago. I, I was about to say five years ago and I was like, no, no. Five years ago I was balls deep in this. Um, I, I, I never, never thought I'd be in private practice, never thought I'd be a therapist, never thought I would be doing what I'm doing. Um, and. I do it because I love veterans. I love first responders. I love their families. I love our dispatchers who are widely forgotten. I love Correctional Officers. This week is Correctional Officers Week, so don't know when we're gonna publish the podcast, but this week right now is smack dab in the middle of Correctional Officer Appreciation Week. Next week is Police Officer Appreciation Week. So if you know a cop or you know, a co, please thank them. Cos have one of the least appreciated jobs in all of law enforcement. They work where the criminals live. Like, I don't think that people understand what these guys go through, these guys and gals. And, and I, I fucking love the people that we work with. I genuinely could not imagine doing anything else. my favorite moment is when I get to sit in front of somebody and go, all right, watch my fingers or hold these, um. I love working with kiddos in the sand tray and watching them go

Brittany:

Mm-hmm.

Christina:

frozen individuals to normal, relatively normal speaking teenagers. Um, I can't do this work without the team that I have. this is by far the best team. And, and I've said that for a few years now, and I genuinely mean it. And I think

Brittany:

Yeah.

Christina:

grow and develop and connect with each other as a team because we're all here for the same reason. Um, and I'm, I'm super jazzed that we get to put this podcast out because I, I appreciate, I appreciate therapists who show up, peace, love, and light. They have like their live life love sticker behind them. They're in their cardigan. I own like 17 cardigans, so like I'm not throwing shade in

Brittany:

Yeah. Seven 17 different colors,

Christina:

of mine are all black'cause that's. My wardrobe.

Peggy:

Here you are.

Brittany:

neutrals.

Christina:

Uh, I think I, I have one blue one, maybe I have one white one, then I have like two brown ones and the rest are like black.

Brittany:

Yeah. And are all neutrals.

Christina:

So I, I think that I'm so excited about this podcast and I'm, I'm so thankful I bitch that you guys a lot because you guys make me do more work and buy more things for you. But, um, I think that this podcast is so needed because, because we need to be the voice for our community. Um, I cannot respond to, my therapist is covered in tattoos and says, fuck. And I appreciate the shit out of that. Um, I am covered in tattoos and say, fuck. And I know my clients appreciate the shit out of that. And I think. is, there is a version of therapy for everybody and there is a therapist for everybody. Um, and I think that we are not out there enough and we are not well known enough because of like what Brittany said, right. What we see on TV is, you know, a therapist with her glasses and her little beaded glasses string and her cardigan, and she's like, oh, I'm here for you. Um, and we are here for you, but we're going to dad jokes and swear and say out of pocket shit while we're doing it. Yep. So that's my spiel.

Brittany:

And we're gonna have some really cool special guests I'm

Christina:

excited.

Brittany:

to help us navigate through some really cool things and talk about some really cool stuff. So I'm really excited about that. Me

Christina:

too. I'm excited that you guys are gonna do a bunch

Brittany:

of work It's gonna be great.

Christina:

I am gonna get to watch.

Brittany:

And you get to watch. Yeah, that's gonna be great. And maybe it's, yeah, it's gonna be fun. I'm super excited too that this has come to fruition. I've been thinking about it for a long time. Back when I was like, Hey, Peggy, let's do a podcast. And she's like, what are we gonna talk about? And I was like, I don't know, I have lots of things we can talk about.

Christina:

list.

Brittany:

Um, and then, right, I was like, I wanna do a podcast. And she's like, okay, you know the drill, let's hear it. And then I sent her like 17 topics and she's like, oh my God. Her favorite phrase, Jesus Christ on a motorbike. You really have been thinking about this. And I was like, literally, you know me, I love lists. Here's my list. And so she's like, okay, we'll put it in a Google drive. Here is all the things. And then Peggy takes her spicy brain

Peggy:

Look, it's chaos and spicy. It's what, how it works.

Christina:

I,

Brittany:

it's like type A, type B,

Christina:

Is there A,

Brittany:

I'm the type B. In that situation,

Christina:

that, does that disqualify me as a therapist?'cause I don't know if there's a type B,

Brittany:

I am 100% type B. So she's like the organized. of our relationship and I am the one that's like chaos, right? I'm like, I have the idea. Bring it to fruition.

Christina:

but you, you do bring a lot of stuff to fruition. Like when you came to me and

Brittany:

I, I guess I do sometimes

Christina:

'cause all of you guys do EMDR and I

Brittany:

I,

Christina:

be different and special.

Brittany:

and I ended up doing EMDR anyway.

Christina:

anyways, right? And I was like, cool, write me a proposal on biofeedback. And I got like a three page fucking document about everything biofeedback. And she's like, and I've already talked to these 17 people and they have said this. And I was like, oh,

Brittany:

About supervision and all the things. Yeah. I guess I,

Peggy:

Then we're all like, let's look at brain spotting

Christina:

And now

Peggy:

'cause we need to add something else.

Brittany:

spotting. Let's look that up.

Christina:

actually am going to a BRAINSPOTTING training. I dropped my fidget toy. Um, I'm going to a Brainspotting training in June. I think it's like a half day. Um, it's like a free training. I don't like get any special like CEEs or anything from it, but

Peggy:

No, we have the free one on May 14th and 15th. Yeah.

Christina:

be in that with you guys. Oh, that's cool. Did I did.

Peggy:

Yes, because I sent it to you.

Christina:

thought I sent it to you.

Peggy:

Yes. No, I was like, here guys, we can all sign up for it together because you know, we all need to do this.

Christina:

to do this.

Brittany:

I love that for us. I love that for us.

Christina:

to a training, um. Fuck, this was years ago. Was I in New York? I think I was living in New York. So this was 2012 to 20 20 13 to 2016. Um, it's so funny how you like map your life out based on how many, where you've PCs two and what year that was. Um, and I went to a training on trauma, um, and the guy was talking about brain spotting and I remember being like, this is fucking weird. And I kinda like it. And then looking up like the actual certification training and finding out it was like ridiculously expensive and my poor little$14 an hour working community mental health could not afford it. So I was like, we're just gonna pass on that. Um,

Brittany:

Just kidding.

Christina:

surprise. Um, yeah, I'm looking forward to this training. So, and then apparently biofeedback and medication assisted

Brittany:

Yeah.

Christina:

and ketamine infused intensives in the intensive practice. Many things coming down the pike that we will be talking about.

Brittany:

Many new things happening, many big moves. This podcast being one of them, I've been kinda like low key and I'm like, Hey, get ready for new Big things coming. New things coming.

Christina:

popping on and being

Brittany:

Super excited about he, yeah, he was like, he was like, oh, you know, were sitting on the couch the other day and then he like dies laughing. And I'm like, so funny? He's like, Christina's so funny. Christina's so funny. I guess we're going back and forth in comment. Yeah. Going back and forth in the comments. Um, and then Landon comes in here and he's like laughing about my equipment. He's like, so you're really doing a podcast? I was like, yeah.

Christina:

my.

Brittany:

He's like, whatcha are you gonna talk about? And I was like, He's like, whatcha are you gonna talk about? And I was like, well, you didn't think I was cool enough for this. So mind your business.

Christina:

Tell my

Brittany:

Mind your business.

Christina:

his lane, or I won't join

Brittany:

Mm-hmm.

Christina:

pit next time.

Brittany:

Yeah. Yep. So they're all very nosy now all of a sudden that it's happening for real. So

Christina:

my golden

Brittany:

I love it.

Christina:

here who's like, what are you gonna do? What's gonna happen? How are we gonna do this? What's, what are you, what are you

Brittany:

Yeah.

Christina:

like, can we, I Okay.

Brittany:

Yeah. Ask him if you like to help sequence music over things, because it took me two days to figure that out.

Christina:

like, do you want, once we record it, do you wanna like do it? He's like, I mean, I can if you want me to. And he's gonna see this.

Brittany:

Yep. Because Peggy and I did the, did the recording. We did the recording, and then I was like, it took me two days to figure out how to sequence that over the top. So for those that are listening, we are not, we are inept at that.

Christina:

We're kind of building the

Brittany:

We are not gurus.

Christina:

which I love for us.

Brittany:

I 100%. We are 100% winging this. So

Christina:

that

Brittany:

don't judge us.

Christina:

need to figure that out.

Peggy:

Do we have official ending or anything to like, know that we're gonna stop recording?

That's all we've got time for today. Feels like we've covered a lot. Thanks for tuning into this week's episode of Holding the Line with Got Your Six Counseling and letting us introduce ourselves. And a big thank you to Christina Rock for joining us and sharing all of our intros and our introduction to Got Your Six. We hope you found something useful, at least something that made you feel seen. New episodes drop every other week on our YouTube channel Holding the line GYS. If you wanna support the podcast, like this video, subscribe to the channel and share it with someone who might get something out of it. And be sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram and post helpful info, dark humor, and all the shit that no one else wants to talk about. And the words of someone wiser than us go forth and do magical shit.

Peggy:

I don't even know if you wanna like, have a, have official ending.

Christina:

You, you

Brittany:

I

Peggy:

I,

Christina:

subscribe because

Brittany:

I mean,

Christina:

hilarious

Brittany:

you should like and subscribe.

Christina:

we're,

Peggy:

This is gonna be great, it's yeah, like subscribe, Facebook,

Christina:

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Peggy:

all the things.

Christina:

gonna have cool

Peggy:

Got your six counseling.

Christina:

whenever I'm a guest

Peggy:

Yeah.

Christina:

that have out-of-pocket shit on them.

Peggy:

Yeah.

Christina:

Like this one says, I've heard

Peggy:

Right.

Christina:

old white men.

Peggy:

I love that. I love that. And Peggy says she could be meaner, but like, I don't know that she could be mean if she tried. So maybe, I guess, yeah. and like also if you wanna hear more things from us, let's hear it.

Christina:

Yeah,

Peggy:

You know, things that you think is important, we would love to hear your

Christina:

we have a whole

Peggy:

I think that would be good to know.

Christina:

our social media profile. So it is social at got your six counseling.net. the number six is spelled out G-O-T-Y-O-U-R-S-I-X counseling.net. Um, so if you have a topic that you want us to talk about that is therapy related, please post it. Please email it to us. Um, and, uh, we'll see what we can do

Peggy:

So I guess we'll see you guys on the next, the next one.

Christina:

The next episode,

Peggy:

for listening

Christina:

on the next episode,

Peggy:

next episode. No, you'll see me and Peggy on the next episode. thank you for Christina for joining us, and that's. Thank you.