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leorax51 · 2 months

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Top Psychological Counselling Services

Introduction:

In today's dynamic world, the significance of psychological counseling services cannot be overstated. Whether you're navigating personal challenges, seeking support for mental health issues, or striving for personal growth, finding the right counseling center is paramount. This guide aims to assist you in identifying the Best Counselling Centres Near Me-2024, ensuring you receive the support and guidance you need to thrive.

1: Unveiling the Importance of Psychological Counseling Services

Psychological counseling services encompass a wide range of support options designed to assist individuals in addressing various mental health concerns, emotional difficulties, and life challenges. These services offer a safe and supportive environment where individuals can explore their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors with the guidance of trained professionals.

2: Key Factors to Consider When Selecting Psychological Counseling Services

Expertise and Specialization: Look for counseling centers that boast a team of skilled and experienced therapists specializing in areas relevant to your needs, such as anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship issues, or addiction.

Credentials and Qualifications: Ensure that the therapists at the counseling center are licensed, accredited, and equipped with the necessary qualifications to provide effective counseling services.

Client-Centered Approach: Opt for counseling centers that prioritize the needs and preferences of their clients, fostering a warm, empathetic, and non-judgmental atmosphere conducive to healing and growth.

Range of Services: Seek out counseling centers that offer a diverse array of services, including individual therapy, couples counseling, group therapy, and specialized treatment modalities tailored to address specific concerns.

Accessibility and Convenience: Consider factors such as the location of the counseling center, availability of virtual or online sessions, ease of scheduling appointments, and flexibility in service delivery.

3: Tips for Identifying the Top Psychological Counseling Services Near You

Conduct Research: Utilize online resources, directories, and review platforms to identify reputable counseling centers in your area, paying attention to factors such as ratings, reviews, and testimonials from past clients.

Seek Recommendations: Reach out to trusted friends, family members, or healthcare professionals for recommendations and referrals to counseling centers they have had positive experiences with.

Schedule Consultations: Take advantage of free initial consultations offered by many counseling centers to meet with therapists, discuss your concerns, and assess the suitability of the services offered.

Trust Your Instincts: Listen to your intuition and gut feelings when choosing a counseling center. Trusting your instincts can often lead you to the right fit for your needs and preferences.

Conclusion:

Selecting the best psychological counseling services in 2024 is a crucial step towards prioritizing your mental health and well-being. By considering factors such as expertise, credentials, client-centered approach, and accessibility, you can make an informed decision that aligns with your needs and goals. Remember, seeking support is a courageous and empowering choice, and with the right counseling services by your side, you can embark on a journey of self-discovery, healing, and personal growth.

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openheartcounselling · 5 months

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#individual counselling ringwood north #individual counselling #individual counselling service #counselling service #counselling #counselling ringwood north #best counselling #best counselling service #ringwood north #australia

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ewwww-what · 3 days

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Holding onto your Archdevil friend’s hand because she is a self-contained radiator!!!

Closup below

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tennessoui · 2 months

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this post https://www.tumblr.com/jedibongrip/743451376814899200?source=share reminded me of your couples counseling au

(this post)

VERY TRULY giving couples counseling au it is all their poor couples counselor can do to keep her head above water literally they mean too much to each other to be healthy but she is digging her heels in she is going to make them a healthy couple if her life depends on it

#asks #couples counseling au #best part is of course that she wins #obikin

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therapy-bites · 2 years

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Happy Halloween Half-Way!!!

Doc Heath here; your friendly Neighborhood NeuroMechanic!

Spooky season is a great time for the young AND the young at heart to PRACTICE “FEAR”. That’s right! Practicing experiencing difficult emotions when we know we’re in a safe environment can help us program our minds to understand emotions - even the difficult ones - are not harmful to us.

Go ahead and enter the creaky doors of that Haunted House. Watch that spooky movie and let the CHILLS run up and down your spine. Decorate your home and yard with ghosts and monsters and witches and zombies; later imagining them all coming to life in the dark of the night.

Guess what will happen when you experience that FEAR? N-O-T-H-I-N-G.

Fear can never harm you though it can be a difficult emotion.

Use this Half-Way to Halloween to create a space for fear that YOU control.

Feel the fear and THEN pay attention to your THINKING. After all, it is your THINKING that is CREATING the fear in the first place.

Change your thinking; change your feelings. Master your thinking; master your life.

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It’s all about the Psychology of EveryDay Life & Relationships.

SIX BRAND NEW episodes:

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E3. Spooky Tales, Scary Therapy, & Staying Psychologically Safe

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E5. Zombies & Depression Quicksand

E6. Spirits, Unsafe Spaces, & Other Tales of Terror

E7. Myths, Monsters, & Scary Stress

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itspileofgoodthings · 6 months

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the thing is life continues to be hard and brutal and test me in some really painful ways but also I’m doing soooooooooo much better than I was a year ago because so many things have changed that needed to change and my coping skills are better, my sense of self is more stable, my relationships are more stable. so like so much to be thankful about every day even though I almost never am because I’m ungrateful and self-absorbed in the moment.

#all of last year was just everything being upended #change on change on change #and so of course I was like ‘it’s been a year aren’t I DONE now’#and of course that is not life lol #(The best moment in the Barbie movie really was the ‘life IS change’ line)#but also sometimes you reap the fruit of hard things #and moving out and starting counseling #have both been huge #as things I needed and NEVER wanted #but I feel so glad for them now #and also just some of the stuff both of those changes have pushed me to examine #has led me to be so much more stable #overall I think #and like/ I’m still not happy all the time lol #there are things that are breaking my heart #and because I’m me there’s things that are breaking my heart that I know and things I’m probably not aware of #but I really do think some of the biggest things are settling #anyway will I feel terribly horribly sad soon? Yes probably.#But they are countered by these moments where my life feels for the first time like something I want to think about with my whole brain #and something that is enough to fill my whole heart #and it never did before. I was always like ‘yes yes my life that’s so good’ but also I was always trying to look away from it #and lose myself in endless distractions #and even sometimes the most beautiful side quests of my brain were still side quests #because I didn’t want to look at my life straight on #and somehow some equation has flipped and I don’t think of my life last now #or only out of the corner of my eye between my obsessions #out of fear and anxiety. Like I’m on my own kid I can face this! Etc.#and what I see is a life that IS good and has so much for me to do and there is so much to love and I DO have what I need #even if not’s what I ordered from the menu of life ANYWAY this is way more detail than you needed lolllll BUT YEah #just wanted to say it. thank you for listening

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br1ghtestlight · 2 months

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in a worse world bob's burgers would do a flash-forward episode where its revealed that louise becomes a cop in 20 yrs

#louise would NOT fucking become a cop btw. she hates cops (except bosco kinda)#she knows the system is too corrupt and she values her own code of justice and morality to do that #even becoming a lawyer might be kinda ehh for her as a character because of how the system works. best to stay away from anything justice #or government related bcuz louise would get pissed she can't fix the system. she isn't good enough w/ kids to become a guidence counseler #so becoming a businesswoman or owner and being trained by fischoeder seems like her best option. future ceo lol #but she could (and will be) anything she wants. just not a cop #txt #bob's burgers

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the-valiant-valkyrie · 11 months

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this doesn't apply to people who goofily clown on him btw (bc i do it too. and i think everyone should do it it's fun), but i have ALWAYS gotten really weird vibes around people who unironically, vitriolically hate maxwell, and it's only recently that i've figured out exactly what it is about people like that that miff me out so much:

don't starve- storywise, themewise- relies heavily on maxwell to get those points across. and not just in the sense that he's a main character, but in how interwoven the overall ideology is in almost every action he performs.

don't starve is about pride. it's about hubris. it's about wanting something badly, and about how much you're willing to sacrifice to get your hands on it. don't starve is about self inflicted torture. don't starve is about chain reactions- hurting the people around you through your decisions, no matter how minuscule. it's about the vicious cycle of power hunger, and the fact there's nothing anyone can do to stop it from repeating.

don't starve is about loneliness, even when surrounded by others. it's about emptiness, even when physically sated. it's about a pain that will never go away. it's about losing nearly everything you've known about yourself, and replacing it with spare parts to build an almost unrecognizable facsimile of who you used to be; and it's about not knowing whether or not to loathe it for what it made you lose, or to be thankful that you even have it at all.

there is no major theme of don't starve that maxwell doesn't completely embody. and i guess it's just so puzzling to me that people can like don't starve and hate him as a character when he's so essential to the greater story being told. like... idk what are you here for lol

#not tagging this if the counsel approve of it it'll get around on its own #like. i HATE wagstaff with every fiber of my being. but in like. an ironic and goofy way.#i chew on him like how a dog chews on a doggie toy. there are people out there who fucking DESPISE maxwell... how can you live like that...#its crazy fr #thankfully i live in what i consider to be a relatively tame corner of the internet but like #if i didn't exist exclusively on tumblr i could not IMAGINE the vitriol that would have washed over me after encore dropped #as if this miserable bastard 'teaming up' with his ex wasn't the best possible scenario. ppl can be so blind sometimes fr

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deargravity · 3 months

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loving cozmez is starting to look like maybe i do belong in the kitchen because my life’s greatest wish is to cook good food for them and make sure they’re eating well everyday. … ……… (can they please invent a cozmez that doesnt turn you into a victim of their tragedy and grief by proximity. i’m going insane over here.)

#paradox live #paralive #cozmez #kanata yatonokami #nayuta yatonokami #group counselling for cozmez fans begins in 15 minutes #cozmez make me so insane #i love them i love them i want the best for them

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openheartcounselling · 5 months

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#individual counselling service #individual counselling #best individual counselling #counselling service #counselling #best counselling #best individual counselling service #australia

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ageofgeek · 1 year

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ok, aaron sorkin, when are we going to get our 1 season, west wing reboot with the first year of the Seaborn presidency, feat. Josh as chief of staff? rob lowe is literally the perfect age for it, pLS, I'm desperate over here

#@ aaron i just wanna talk ok #west wing #aaron sorkin #sam seaborn #josh lyman #josh and donna would be married ofc #and so would charlie and zoey #maybe charlie could be white house counsel?#toby would be a grump professor at georgetown or something who shows up whenever he wants #cj is living her best life in california and no one's bothering her oK #i want joey lucas to be a senator from california #bartlet and santos both cameoing in the finale during a potus get together #coME ON #I'll fucking write the thing myself #mine

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thebirdandhersong · 10 months

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have landed myself in hot water again

#THOUGHT counselling session was today (it is not) and so the whole group moved group activity to tomorrow for me #(that's bad because it ISNT today)#the counselling session is actually next week which coincides with another event the program has financially covered which i will MISS #and which is unrefundable! which is also not great because THEY paid for it #anyway i'm at a crossroads right now i.e. trying not to panic #i can't miss or cancel the counselling session (costs money) and i can't reschedule it (i already did once and it would also #conflict with class)#anyway would love to call my parents to ask for their advice but they're abroad AND busy #anyway i'm trying to figure out what to do and don't KNOW what the best course of action is #hate inconveniencing people hate wasting people's money and i thought it was TODAY

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s0fter-sin · 1 year

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general society is such an underthought aspect of mha. obviously there’s the big things like the obsession over heroic quirks and the demonisation of villainous quirks. quirkless people are dismissed entirely but i don’t think we talk about how society in general would have to handle a world with super powers.

we know after afo’s first uprising, the government overcorrected and outlawed public quirk usage. we know people have their quirks registered and go through quirk counselling as well as a type of gym class where they practice under teacher supervision.

how in the hell is that supposed to work?

the closest equivalent i can think of is mental health services. someone would have to study for a long time to be able to pursue quirk counselling as a career. it’s also a highly personalised system: everyone has a different quirk - even similar ones have different activations, triggers, exceptions and drawbacks - so no two sessions could ever be the same. if anyone’s been through mental health services, you know how rough it is; it’s an overworked, underpaid system and if you live somewhere that only offers a few free visits, it can also be expensive.

and that’s an elective service.

almost everyone on the planet would need quirk counselling.

there’s no way they could implement such a labour intensive and individual public system and we literally see that they can’t.

we see the gym class in amajiki’s flashback and he only has a few minutes with his teacher before he’s chided for not being more impressive and utilising his quirk to the fullest and they move on to the next student. say a standard class is twenty students like it is at ua. that leaves just over two minutes for each student to learn and practice their quirks. you can’t focus on just one kid per lesson bc what will the other nineteen do? do teachers also have to have a degree in quirk counselling? is that part of becoming a phys ed teacher or is it some random joe schmo trying to wrap his head around literal super powers?

given that inko goes to garaki - a doctor - to confirm izuku’s quirklessness, it can be assumed that quirk counselling is entwined with the medical system. i don’t know if you’ve ever had to apply for a specialist before but you can be on their waiting list for a while. a quirk counsellor is essentially a specialist. are there subcategories of counsellors? do you focus on either emitter, transformation or mutation the way doctors become cardiologists, paediatricians and neurologists? or is one person expected to be equally knowledgeable about all three?

we see through toga that her counsellor identified her need for blood but they didn’t find a way to curb those instincts or even find a supplement for her. she’s left to be abused by her family for something she can’t control bc it’s literally in her dna. compare that to iida who knows he needs orange juice to power his quirk. his entire family are pro heroes so it would be easy to assume they could employ a private quirk counsellor the same way richer people can employ private doctors.

how many people have specific requirements due to their quirks? changes in their physiology that have to be treated the same way nutritional deficiencies and allergies do? even people without mutations probably have those requirements: does kirishima’s shark teeth mean he’s an obligate carnivore? does mina’s acid change her ph levels and what vitamins and minerals she needs? how would they figure that out? quirk counselling.

what about kids like touya who would need extensive counselling so he could figure out how to live with his quirk without hurting himself? kaminari essentially has seizures and they’re so normal to him and everyone around him that they’re the butt of jokes. they wouldn’t be a one and done patient; there’s always going to be people that need continued support the exact same way there’s people that need developmental and disability support. there would be so many quirks that harm their user, are they just taught to bury their quirks? as if that wouldn’t cause any physical or mental consequences?

governments can’t create a system that applies to only some people, we’re expected to believe they’ve made one that applies to all of them?

#bnha #my hero academia #mha meta #i imagine its similar to therapy in that the first session would be free since its probably required in order to register a child’s quirk #they probably figure out activation in that time and thats it #onto the next kid bc there will always be another kid #you want more information on your child’s power? you better be able to pay for more sessions #even quirkless people need to be fully assessed to ensure theyre quirkless #i doubt anyone else is as interested in this as i am but it feels like just another world building aspect horikoshi just kinda skipped #quirk counselling is just sort of thrown in with toga and curious and it becomes just another concept that is brought up and discarded #quirk counselling quirklessness mutant prejudice the quirk singularity theory general mutations outside of mutant quirks #theres so many little interesting concepts that are never given the development they deserve #and when they are like in the last few chapters its done in such a shallow handwavy way that i wish hed just leave them alone altogether #no wonder the plf exists quirks are so suppressed in society while also being a status symbol #and yet its a completely hypothetical advantage if they dont become a hero or a villain #if a kid has a heroic quirk theyre held on a pedestal and if they have a villainous one theyre demonised at best and abused at worst #koichi was almost given a fine bc he was using his quirk to get through foot traffic quicker how is there not a riot every year about #quirk freedom and rights violations?#and yet its completely glossed over #go beyond plus ultra #coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt

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polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup · 1 year

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Hey Syn, I have a very serious question: do you think Matt and Frank can co-parent or would these two be constantly at each others throats?

I mean, they have a lot in common but the way they deal with it is so completely different.

Not to mention that Frank sees Daredevil as a pain in the ass and above the "dirty work" aka killing while Matt condems Franks killing spree. Or their background concerning family (Matt = his dad and Stick; Frank = old parents who didn't know how to control him + Maria and their kids)

I mean, it really depends very heavily on the context.

Like, if you pull them out of canon as they are, hand them a random baby, and assign them to raise it like it’s a flour sack for Health class, then that’s gonna be a hard no. They hate each other, Matt definitely does not want to be a parent, frank wants to be a parent but of like, his kids, specifically, and neither of them are going to want to cooperate on an indefinite basis. They would find the nearest fire station and leave the baby on the steps. But, in the spirit of the question, I think it’s important to note that parenting is something you do not something you are.

Like, it’s a million little choices stretched out for as long as both you and the kid is alive. Decisions you make in the interests of the kid. So, lots of room to fuck those choices up. It’s extremely difficult being a parent, I don’t want to diminish that, but you don’t get whacked with the parent stick once you become in charge of a child. It’s something you have to pick, again and again and again, multiple times a day, seven days a week, including holidays, and a lot of parents don’t pick to like, be parents.

It’s about putting your kid first, and doing what you think is best for them. Sacrificing for them if that’s what it takes. Teaching them not to be a serial killer and taking an interest in them and trying to keep them emotionally, physically, and mentally healthy. A million different things. So, for me, the question isn’t more if they can co-parent, but what, if anything, is a situation where they’d both be willing to take on the responsibility of parenthood together, and then we hit whether those choices you make as a parent are gonna be the same for them.

A few notes:

1. They fucking hate each other.

2. They agree on nothing.

Which is really bad for co-parenting because 1) kids can tell when their parents fucking hate each other, and 2) you need to agree on like, parenting at the very least, or you’ll constantly be fighting.

Really, it’d be a matter of finding the hyper specific situation where they have to make it work for the kid and neither of them are willing to walk away.

Because like, hating each other, not agreeing on anything—those are mindsets, not choices. They still have to make choices. Hypothetically, they could choose to suck it up, be civil, and learn to cooperate for the sake of the kid. I just see very few instances where that would ever happen.

It sounds mercenary, but it’s cost and worth, right? It costs mental time and energy as well as physical money and resources to raise a child. Stack on the costs of having to do it with a guy you fucking hate, and the cost of raising a child is enormous.

The thing is, with Matt and Frank, it’s not like the traditional routes of accidentally finding themselves coparenting is open. Like. Okay. One of them cannot accidentally knock up the other, if we’re starting from canonical sexes assigned at birth and assuming like, no mpreg. They have no way of finding themselves with a biological offshoot of the two of them combined. Before we get to the logistics of “would they be able to work out co-parenting logistically,” any mutual kid of theirs is going to first have to jump the hurdle of getting them to choose to co-parent in the first place. This is going to be the step they almost inevitably fail at.

Choosing to parent a child when you're one of the two most unstable men alive is a big decision. It's an even bigger decision when the other parent is going to be the other most unstable man alive. And that big big decision gets even bigger when you simply fucking hate the other guy. So if Matt and Frank are facing the threshold question of "Are we willing to raise this child?" they're going to almost inevitably say, "No, we need to leave this kid on some nice fire station steps."

And I don't want to make it sound like the kid isn't good enough for them. It's more that if Matt and Frank are being faced with the very important decision of deciding whether they are what's best for this child, they're almost invariably going to say "Absolutely fucking not, get literally anyone else."

Because honestly? Matt and Frank are almost never the best case scenario for a child. Matt's business model is "trust in Jesus to provide for the light bill, yes we will accept half a banana and this 1997 copy of the phantom of the opera as payment for our expert legal services, god bless and amen." Frank does not have a single legitimate income stream. Both of them are profoundly mentally ill and would not get therapy at gunpoint. They've both faked their death on multiple occasions, depending on what canon you're talking about. Falling completely off the grid and having all of their loved ones sobbing at their funeral is a repeated life event for them. Both of them could actually die on any given day. There's warrants out for their arrest. There's probably a shoot on sight policy for them. they both have a proclivity for collapsing, bleeding and dying, to the floor. I'm not convinced they know how to file their taxes.

Matt and Frank electing to take a child in involves a much higher level of choice than having an accidental biological child. If we're like, living in the mpreg or gender bend world or whatever and accidental pregnancy was on the table, while termination would be an option and a choice they could make, they have time to plan and get their shit in order if Frank decides he wants to go for parenting round #2 and Matt like, presumably has an undiagnosed head injury or something if he's decided to voluntarily continue his genetic line.

If they are taking in a child, then that is an immediate choice they have to make with immediate consequences. They don't have nine months to get into more stable positions--the child is standing right in front of them in need of a home, has a set personality, has unique and tangible needs and problems, and their life is probably in fucking shambles if matt and frank are even in the running for consideration. At this stage of the game, Matt and Frank are almost always going to say "Hey, I've developed a great deal of fondness for you, in this, our time saving you from that faceless drug lord or whatever brought your life to such a state of crisis. But i'm sort of a fucking mess and there has got to be a better option for you out of the 7 billion people on earth. i will personally find them and make sure you have a home, but it's not going to be with me."

Frank loved Amy in Season 2 of the punisher, but he still sent her off to live in a different, more stable home. "Being raised by the Punisher and daredevil" is just not a very good environment for a kid. It's going to be really really hard to ever get them to consider coparenting simply because them parenting a child at all is not going to be good for the child, and they will find them a different home.

Honestly, the only thing that could really tip them into deciding to take in a kid would be 1) if the kid's life is just that fucked to begin with and 2) overwhelming emotional complications making it so they can't give the kid up.

TO BE CLEAR i am not making any promises about the "these stupid hells we keep" verse but lisa actually happens to be a perfect case study, so we'll bring her in for illustrative purposes.

Lisa actually just is in a unique position where her life is that fucked. Matt only decided to take her in in the first place because the chaste put him in a bind. On a psychological level, Lisa needs some major help right now. She needs support to do it. But she can't get it, because she can't tell anyone about what happened to her without putting them in immediate risk of the chaste and/or hand killing them. She also doesn't want help to begin with, and wouldn't reach out for help and let people in with the way she is right now. Even if she did, Stick's brainwashing was so fucked that it makes it hard for most average adoptive parents to be able to help with that level of abuse.

Matt doesn't even know if he can find the chaste, let alone take them down. Even if he did take down the chaste, he'd effectively be taking out the only force keeping the hand in check, so now the world may fall to fucking ninjas, who also may go after Lisa. On the other hand, Matt would conceivably be able to provide her the support she needed. He already knows about the dangerous facts, so they don't have to worry about him being killed for knowing. He has none of the problems that almost every other adult on the planet would have for lisa's willingness to open up--he's on the inside of Stick's special group. She sees him as someone like her. He can start chipping away at Stick's brainwashing--if he got his shit together and stopped being such a fucking mess. prayers for him on that. it's the fact that Lisa's interests are so boxed in by the threats on her make the chances of Matt and Frank's co-parenting coming into play much higher.

That being said, if matt knew "murder dad" was an option in therianthropy, he probably would have said "good luck and god bless you seem like you have this under control" and fucked right off to be mentally ill and unstable in peace. Frank is sufficiently dangerous enough on his own to keep lisa safe and, as her father, may be a better candidate to give her support. Like, Matt wouldn't leave her life entirely, but he'd be like the sitcom neighbor who shows up on the occasional special episode and helps her through her brainwashing. Matt legitimately only gets to the threshold of "willing to be this child's permanent adult figure" if there are literally zero other options. And I specify adult figure because matt in hells verse very much is thinking of himself as less of lisa's father and more of her adult roommate who can claim her on his tax forms now. he's the spencer to her carly at best.

Lisa is Frank's daughter. There is not a world where he is willing to walk away from her. So he would have to ignore whatever logistical issues there were and find a way to make it fucking work. Matt is one of those logistical issues, and the question is whether Frank decides to resolve it with like, fuckin' couple's counseling or with kicking matt in the ribs.

The other question is whether Matt stays if there is another option.

Because say like, the day after therianthropy ends, Frank Castle shows up on their doorstep ready to take Lisa back in. He hasn't gone on his murder spree yet, amen and god bless, and won't be doing it at all. It's weird that you asked that question, actually, who would even think of such a thing. He has a daughter to raise and will be devoting his time and effort to that.

Matt's already pretty emotionally involved. Like, he already loves Lisa, even if he may not be able to admit as much. But he's very much still in the capacity of doing this as a necessary evil. He does not view himself as like, a good option--he took in Lisa because he viewed himself as the only option. If he has another option? He'd probably bow out pretty immediately and call it a near-brush with adult responsibility. If there was more time to establish a relationship with Lisa?

It sounds bad to say, but it's really hard to say whether Matt would decide to stay not as legitimately the only living candidate on the planet, but as a voluntary parent, just because he loves the kid in question. It goes more to his own doubts as to his ability to be a healthy influence than his ability to love a kid. He just has a lot of issues and he knows that it wouldn't be good for a kid to be dealing with his spiral. It'd definitely require a lot of growth and healing on his part. But it would take this kind of extreme circumstances to even get to the threshold question of "is matt even willing to try to be a parent?" and he will dive back over that threshold if another option arises.

For Frank, it would be more of a question of getting him to understand the severity of the situation. Frank is very stubborn and set in his ways. To get him to accept co-parenting with Matt, especially as Lisa's like, actual father who has some primacy in this situation, he has to accept that Matt's someone who should be in Lisa's life. It would be a question of whether he actually grasps the depths of what happened to Lisa and the things that make Matt good for her life.

Honestly, I just think that the circumstances to get Matt and Frank to agree to coparent in the first place would have to be so hyper-specific and extreme that it'd almost necessarily exclude them as coparents. That being said, the fact that the circumstances would have to be that extreme actually goes in favor of matt and frank working out coparenting. Like, the situation is already fucked beyond all hope if they are the two parenting options on the table. If they had a kid that needs them that badly, and that they loved too much to leave, then they're going to be in the position where they have to work it out. If they don't, they'll fuck up the kid.

Will they be perfect parents together? By absolutely no stretch of the imagination. They are going to fuck up so bad and so often. But, at their core, they do care deeply about the people they love. They're going to try fucking hard to fix their fuck ups and do better. It would be messy and painful and absolutely riddled with mistakes, but I think they'd conceivably make it over the finish line at the end of the day out of sheer burning necessity.

It does help that most of their biggest problems are going to likely be sidestepped. Like, take Matt's "no kill" code versus Frank's "yes kill" code.

They're going to dodge it just because neither of them are likely to actually want a kid to turn out like them. Like, if they're raising a kid, it's not for the kid to be the robin to their batman. They're not raising them to fight crime. The core of the issue ("How do you ethically run a vigilante career") is going to not come into play because they're probably not raising this kid to be a vigilante. It's probably going to be a very touchy subject that Dad and Other Dad simply do not discuss ever.

Honestly, thoughts and prayers for the very confused couple's counselor they're going to have to get, because they'd have to learn how to bear each other's personalities sooner rather than later. But if they don't figure it on their own, Karen or Foggy is going to threaten their lives and manhoods if they don't get their shit together and take care of that kid properly. They'd have to either come to a truce or find a different living situation for the kid, because it'd be toxic to raise a kid in a household where they actively fucking hate each other.

Daredevil and the Punisher is an entirely separate can of worm. Are they both keeping up the vigilante career? That's a huge problem independent from their relationship--they are constantly risking death or prison, and it's going to be stressful for the kid to have them come home injured constantly. If we assume neither of them are giving it up, eventually they're going to have to either come to some kind of middle ground as to working together or take a very extreme "leave it at the office" approach where they simply do not ever talk about it at home ever. Like married professors who are academic rivals.

The is a very long way of saying that it's incredibly unlikely that they would ever willingly coparent and it'd be a non-issue, but if they did end up in a coparenting situation, then they'd probably manage it. It'd take a lot of fucking work and would be extremely far from perfect, but they would presumably love the kid and put in the Herculean effort required to actually exist in each other's presences for an extended period of time.

#matt murdock #frank castle #asks #like do i think it's in the least bit probable NO #but somewhere out there in the multiverse captain america married female tony stark #and johnny storm married reed richards #both of which are wild fucking comic book plots that we all have to live with #so sure #somewhere out there in the infinite cosmos frank castle and matt murdock are having a very tense appointment in a couples counseling office #their very confused therapist does not know What They Are #Are they married?? exes?? dating?? Where Did They Get Their Child #they're never going to be World's Best Violence Dads but they would really love the kid and try hard #the kid would live to see their 18th birthday (probably) and be mostly happy and HOPEFULLY not a serial killer #jury's out on that last one

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