{"id":25,"date":"2018-02-06T11:43:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T11:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedemos.net\/coach\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2022-02-23T20:58:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T20:58:43","slug":"team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thesemicolongroup.com\/team\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Whitcomb Terpening, MSW, LCSW-S<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Why do you willingly work with suicide?<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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This is the first question most people ask me, so let\u2019s just get it out of the way! I choose to work with suicide because I have been profoundly affected by suicide. I have never met anyone that works in suicide prevention that accidentally happened upon this work, and while that feels heart-wrenchingly painful when I allow myself to think about it, it is also beautiful: you will not find anyone who pursues working with suicide for any reason other than that they want to.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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I understand how all-consuming suicide can be \u2013 and I also know that it doesn\u2019t have to be. In my decade of looking suicide in the face, the most fundamental thing I\u2019ve learned is that when suicide has an open, non-judgmental, fully-accepting space to vent, to be heard, and to be seen in all of its ugliness, suicide can lose its power.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Professionally, I am a clinical suicidologist, a clinical social worker and social work supervisor (LCSW-S), and a doctoral student at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health<\/a>. I served as one of the founding Board members for the Behavioral Health & Suicide Prevention Task Force<\/a>\u00a0in Montgomery County, TX<\/p>

In Texas, this means that I have a master\u2019s degree in social work (MSW), that I have at least 3000 hours of supervised experience, that I took two long, daunting, intimidating exams to prove to the State that I\u2019ve got this \u2013 and that I’ve taken an additional 40-hour course in clinical supervision. It also means that I\u2019m required to do continuing education every year to ensure that I\u2019m staying on top of my game (this is the fun part!). And it means that I\u2019m able to be in independent practice, specializing in what I know best: suicide.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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But how are you able to keep doing this work? What do you do for fun?<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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I love going to baseball games and on adventures to find the best coffee shops; I love on my family and chosen family every day; I practice gratitude faithfully, and I am on a mission to live an unbusy life. I am an extra big fan of well-timed puns, sarcasm that is on point, snowboarding down adrenaline-producing double blacks, live jazz music, and tattoo therapy.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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