You don't have to
hold it alone.
A gathering place for therapists and counselors to trade case conceptualizations, find peer consultation, and remember they're not the only one carrying this particular weight.
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Clinical work is lonely
in a way that's hard to explain.
You hold your clients' hardest truths and walk to your car carrying them. You second-guess a case conceptualization at midnight. You watch a colleague burn out and wonder if you're next. The supervision ended when you got licensed, but the questions didn't. Convene is where you put them down for a moment — and find someone who's been in the same room.
Below is a live sample of what's being discussed right now. No registration to read. No performance required.
Raising rates after 4 years — how did you tell long-term clients?
I've been putting this off for two years. My supervisor says I'm undercharging by $40/session but the guilt...
Client disclosed something about a colleague. Now what?
I know the colleague personally. Not a dual relationship technically, but the information is...
Caseload of 430. Triage system that actually works?
Administration keeps adding students. I'm one person. Sharing my color-coded system but looking for...
Newly licensed, first suicidal ideation case without a supervisor to call
I knew this day would come. Safety plan is in place, I followed protocol, but sitting with it alone tonight...
I'm the only therapist for 60 miles. Anyone else?
Nearest peer is in the next county. Telehealth helps but there's something about the particular isolation of...
EMDR with a client who dissociates — pacing questions
Phase 2 feels incomplete. She's motivated but the window of tolerance is narrow. Has anyone found that...
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A room for every
kind of weight you carry.
Convene is organized around the real categories of clinical life — not the tidy ones from your grad school syllabus. Hover any channel to see what's being discussed right now.
Peer Consultation
Bring your stuck cases. Anonymous, collegial, no judgment about where you are in your training.
Ethics Roundtable
Real scenarios, real dilemmas. Discuss without the fear of being judged by your licensing board.
Modalities & Methods
CBT, DBT, IFS, EMDR, somatic, narrative — discuss what works, what doesn't, and what you're learning.
Private Practice
Rates, EHRs, no-show policies, marketing without feeling gross — the business side nobody trained you for.
School Counseling
Crisis triage, 504 meetings, impossible caseloads. A place to exhale after the last bell rings.
Rural & Solo Practice
For the clinicians who are the only provider for miles. You're not as alone as the geography suggests.
What changes when you
stop holding it alone.
These aren't endorsements. They're specific moments — the kind that only happen when you're in the right room with the right people at the right time.
I posted about a client who kept canceling right before breakthroughs. Within two hours, four therapists had shared their own versions of the same pattern. One response changed how I understood the whole case.
Miriam Osei-Bonsu
LCSW, Private Practice
Portland, OR
I'm the only therapist in my county who does IFS. Finding the Modalities channel felt like finally having colleagues.
David Calloway
LPC, Rural Practice
Harlan County, KY
The Ethics Roundtable helped me work through a dual relationship situation I couldn't bring to my supervisor because she was part of it. The community held it with me.
Sunita Raghavan
LMFT, Group Practice
Fremont, CA
Someone shared their sliding scale structure in the Private Practice channel. I had been undercharging by $55 and didn't know it. That one thread paid for my year.
Tobias Wenner
LPCC, Solo Practice
Bozeman, MT
I posted at 10pm the night after a student disclosed active suicidal ideation for the first time in my career. People responded within minutes. I didn't have to sit alone with that.
Aaliya Hernandez
School Counselor, LCSW
Albuquerque, NM
Three years post-licensure and I still use the consultation channel weekly. It's replaced what I lost when I left agency work.
Marcus Thibodeau
LMHC, Telehealth Practice
Burlington, VT
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The Peer Consultation
Starter Guide
A 14-page guide written by clinicians, for clinicians. Covers how to present a case without compromising confidentiality, how to ask for consultation without feeling exposed, and how to give feedback that's actually useful. Free. No strings.
- How to anonymize cases for peer review
- The 5-question consultation framework
- Giving feedback across modalities
- When to escalate: ethics consultation checklist
The chair has been
pulled out for you.
Joining takes 90 seconds. You'll be asked for your name, email, and license type — enough to keep the space safe, not enough to perform for. The conversations are waiting mid-sentence.
Full access to all channels
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Confidentiality by design
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Peer consultation rooms
Bring a case. Leave with perspective.
Right now in Convene
Boundary question with a grieving client — 7 replies in 20 min
Ethics · 3m ago
Attachment-based approach with avoidant adult — case discussion open
Peer Consult · 11m ago
Triage spreadsheet shared — 44 downloads already
School · 28m ago
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