In her every-other-week private counseling appointments with teenagers, Seattle-based therapist Emily Irwin will often ask “what’s on your heart? What’s on your brain?”
“And they’ll be like…. ‘uh, I forget, I forget what happened,’” Irwin recounted.
These stresses start to stack up between appointments, Irwin said, and it can take a toll on a student’s mental health. But in her other role as a coach on the mental health platform Clayful, Irwin can respond to texts from students right away.
Read more from KNKX Public Radio.
