Claire Cook

About

The call usually comes after a stretch of gray days finally outlasts your patience, once the private pep talks have gone hoarse and the fixes that used to work have quietly quit. That is a sensible moment to bring in help, not a dramatic one. A low mood that overstays for weeks is not laziness and not a character defect. It is a state with its own machinery, and machinery can be understood and adjusted. I am direct and specific about how we do exactly that, because I would rather be useful to you than merely soothing. For a good while I mentored clinicians early in their training, and I still get a real charge from watching someone finally connect two things they had kept apart for years. I am confident, quick, and allergic to wasting your time. If you are done managing this on your own, I am ready whenever you are.