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Qinghe Counseling Group
Couples Therapy Intake Form
Patient name: Lan Wangji
[see demographic information]
Name of partner: Wei Wuxian
Relationship status: ☒ Other
Length of time in current relationship: 1 year
What do you hope to accomplish through counseling? Convincing Wei Ying not to be reckless with his life.
What have you already done to deal with the challenges? Telling Wei Ying not to be reckless with his life.
What are your biggest strengths as a couple? We work efficiently together.
What are your biggest weaknesses? Communication.
What action can you personally take to improve the relationship, regardless of your partner’s actions? Express myself better.
Have you previously attended couples counseling for your relationship issues? No
Have you or your partner attended individual counseling before? No
List your top three concerns about your relationship with your partner, ranked in order of importance:
- Wei Ying regularly puts himself in unnecessary danger and prioritizes the lives of others over his own.
- He makes light of my concerns.
- When I am concerned, I do not express myself well.
Has either of you:
- Threatened separation/divorce? No
- Consulted a divorce lawyer (if married)? No
- Withdrawn from the relationship? No
- Engaged in emotional or physical infidelity? No
- Physically restrained, harmed, or hurt the other? No
On a scale of 1 to 10, how important is it to you to improve your relationship? 10 (extremely important)
How willing are you to make your relationship a priority? 10 (extremely willing)
Is there anything else you’d like to share? Wei Ying is unwilling to take things seriously, which may pose a challenge for the mediator. Additionally, I do not have experience explicitly stating my feelings.
Please note that your answers will be discussed during sessions, but this form won’t be shared with your partner.
Couples Therapy Intake Form
Patient name: Wei Wuxian
[see demographic information]
Name of partner: Lan Wangji
Relationship status: ☒ Single
Length of time in current relationship: N/A
What do you hope to accomplish through counseling? I want to fulfill my mandatory mental health counseling requirement for work, and Lan Zhan seems to want to come spectate, so of course I want to put on an entertaining show for him too!
What have you already done to deal with the challenges? I tried to convince the chief to retract the department’s order, and when that didn’t work, I tried to forge a therapist’s note saying I am exceptionally mentally well and ready to return to work since I got minorly injured (again). Unfortunately, they tried to follow up with the therapist, who didn’t actually exist, and that plan didn’t pan out in the end.
What are your biggest strengths as a couple? Me and Lan Zhan? I suppose we’re a couple in the sense that we’re a couple of firefighters who work together. Let me tell you, we’re REALLY good at our jobs. If your office happens to burn down while we’re there, you’ll be in great hands.
What are your biggest weaknesses? I don’t have any, thanks for asking. Lan Zhan’s biggest weakness is that he has no sense of humor.
What action can you personally take to improve the relationship, regardless of your partner’s actions? I don’t know that there’s any force on earth that can convince Lan Zhan to chill out, let alone little old me. I guess I could pretend to do what he wants, but it wouldn’t last long, so really the ball’s in his court to stop getting mad at me!
Have you previously attended couples counseling for your relationship issues? No
Have you or your partner attended individual counseling before? No
List your top three concerns about your relationship with your partner, ranked in order of importance:
- Lan Zhan is frequently pissed at me for just doing my job.
- As mentioned, he has no sense of humor and does not find me amusing.
- I think he gets paid more than me. Should I sue the city, do you think?
Has either of you:
- Threatened separation/divorce? No
- Consulted a divorce lawyer (if married)? No
- Withdrawn from the relationship? No
- Engaged in emotional or physical infidelity? No
- Physically restrained, harmed, or hurt the other? No
On a scale of 1 to 10, how important is it to you to improve your relationship? 6 (a little important)
How willing are you to make your relationship a priority? 6 (a little willing)
Is there anything else you’d like to share? If I go to couples counseling instead of individual therapy, does that count as double the therapy? And, if so, can it count toward the next time I get flagged for well-being concerns too?
Please note that your answers will be discussed during sessions, but this form won’t be shared with your partner.
Qinghe Counseling Group
Therapist: Nie Huaisang
Intern: Lan Sizhui
Intake Session Therapist Assessment
Persons Present:
☒ Both partners
☐ One partner only: WWX
☐ One partner only: LWJ
☒ Intern: Lan Sizhui
☐ Others
Purpose of Counseling
☐ Relationship problems: Mild to moderate
☐ High relationship distress
☐ Separation or pending divorce
☐ Premarital counseling
☒ Other
Functional State of Relationship
Conflict Frequency
☒ Frequent
☐ Occasional
☐ Infrequent
Negative Communication Patterns Noted
☒ Criticism
☐ Contempt
☒ Defensiveness
☒ Stonewalling
☐ Triangulation
☐ None noted
Impact of Issues on Marriage/Relationship and Family
☒ Relationship satisfaction
☐ Financial
☐ Parenting and/or parent/child relationships
☒ Sexual relationship, frequency, and/or satisfaction
☐ Home environment
☐ Relationships with friends, in-laws, and/or extended family
☒ Career or work responsibilities of either partner
☐ Community, church, or outside responsibilities
☐ Legal
☒ Other
Severity of Impacts on Marriage/Relationship and/or Family
☐ None
☐ Mild
☐ Moderate
☒ Moderate to severe
☐ Severe
Immediate Prognosis of Marriage/Relationship and/or Family
☐ Excellent
☐ Good
☐ Fair
☐ Poor
☒ Undetermined
Main Points of Discussion
- Wei Wuxian likes to live life on the edge
- Lan Wangji is NOT chill with that
- Idk if these two have ever had a productive conversation but they definitely have a lot of eye sex, not sure if they’re aware
Session Notes and Observations
WWX & LWJ are firefighters(?) or something? Or at least they end up in burning buildings a lot apparently so if they’re not firefighters that would be weird but tbh I forget exactly what they said. They claim to be just colleagues and not romantically involved which is wack bc I’m pretty sure couples counseling is supposed to be for couples?? Need to check w/ intern on this. If these two are just colleagues tho, it’s giving HR violation bc they act more married than actual married couples.
LWJ is kinda scary...why is he always glaring at me like that?? It’s like he was expecting me to step in and do something. Their beef is their personal business what am I supposed to do abt that? WWX has been assigned here for therapy bc he got injured in an ?? Tsunami? Tornado? Both? I was zoning out a little there but some kind of injury while saving ppl. LWJ seems extremely pressed abt this. He doesn’t say much but I get a vibe.
WWX is a yapper but most of what he says is totally off-topic. Like sure go off I guess. I tried to help steer the conversation by asking how they cope with the sexual tension between them at work but this question was not well received. Both seemed confused. Subjects are delusional?
Intern Observation Notes
Patients Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji work together at the local fire department as partners (not romantically involved but may be in future?). Their jobs involve rescuing people from dangerous situations and endangering their own lives in the process; Lan Wangji considers Wei Wuxian an excessive risk-taker above the normal demands of the job, to the point of being self-sacrificing. Wei Wuxian considers his actions a reasonable occupational hazard in order to save lives; he finds Lan Wangji’s concern stifling and unnecessary.
Lan Wangji seems to care deeply for Wei Wuxian but has difficulty conveying his concerns openly in a non-abrasive way. Wei Wuxian may be using humor to deflect from trauma (he has experienced potentially multiple injuries on duty but is unwilling to discuss them seriously).
The patients may benefit from a more structured session in future to address Lan Wangji’s struggle to actively participate and Wei Wuxian’s tendency to avoid serious topics. It may also help not to reference potential romantic and sexual attraction, as neither patient seems willing to acknowledge the possibility of those feelings at this time.
Qinghe Counseling Group
Therapist: Nie Huaisang
Intern: Lan Sizhui
2nd Session
Session Notes and Observations
WWX & LWJ came in all riled up about an apartment building fire. They’d gotten everyone out but WWX went back in to look for someone’s cat. I thought firefighters only rescued cats from trees but apparently burning buildings are also on the table. Good intel.
Building was unsafe (duh? It was on fire? That’s common sense I fear) so firefighters were ordered to retreat but WWX violated protocol by continuing to look for the cat. Subject may be insane? I asked why he would do that bc wtf and he said it’s his job. If it were his job why would he have been told by his captain to get out of there? LWJ finally stopped trying to kill me with his eyes when I asked this question. Success?
I asked LWJ what he thinks of WWX’s behavior and he said “Reckless. Stupid.” which was not the impassioned monologue I was going for to show WWX that his craziness upsets his “partner”...but baby steps I guess? I asked him some follow-up questions but this guy is NOT a chatterbox. It’s like pulling teeth! Actually I’ve never pulled teeth before idk what that’s like but it sounds gross.
WWX thinks LWJ is trying to stifle WWX’s “natural instincts” and make him conform to the tyranny of the paranoid rulemakers who don’t care about human or feline lives as much as liability lawsuits. Bro is kinda dramatic as hell. LWJ said the orders are about ensuring firefighters don’t die (that would be an L) and WWX said he’s not a coward so he’s not afraid to die and that was clearly NOT the right answer. LWJ seemed like he wanted to kill WWX but the session time was up then so who knows if WWX will live long enough to make session 3. Would be a shame to lose his business tho since they’re my only clients!
Intern Observation Notes
Session No. 2 seemed at least somewhat more constructive than the first one, but it brought a lot of negative feelings to the surface.
The primary conflict is how they view their responsibilities as firefighters. Wei Wuxian prioritizes civilian lives (human and animal), whereas Lan Wangji feels responsible for ensuring his partner’s safety in the field as well. It’s unclear how Wei Wuxian would respond if Lan Wangji were also an excessive risk taker. Wei Wuxian seems to view Lan Wangji’s caution as arbitrary rule following, whereas Lan Wangji views the rules as paramount to ensuring Wei Wuxian’s safety.
More follow-up is required in future sessions to dig deeper into this gap in understanding; it will likely be difficult but necessary to get them to empathize with each other’s positions.
Qinghe Counseling Group
Therapist: Nie Huaisang
Intern: Lan Sizhui
3rd Session
Session Notes and Observations
Intern suggested listening game: subject says their feelings and partner has to parrot it back to them. WWX repeated everything back in a pirate accent. Not sure what he learned from this exercise. LWJ repeated WWX’s words back verbatim like he’s trying to get an A+ in therapy (can I give out grades? Must ask intern).
Otherwise, mostly the same yapping as usual. Tensions were high again bc of another near-incident involving WWX standing in front of a speeding car to get it to stop. Would diagnose him as an idiot.
I had a genius idea! Could assign homework to LWJ abt endangering himself to freak out WWX and see what happens—not sure if ethical? Need ask intern this too before next session.
Intern Observation Notes
The mirror exercise did not yield demonstrable success. It may be worth trying again in a later session, but other exercises should be explored first. Wei Wuxian seems to understand Lan Wangji’s position, at least well enough to paraphrase it, but it’s clear he does not see any validity in it. It was hard to tell if Lan Wangji really does understand Wei Wuxian’s side, as he seemed to take the exercise very literally and was focused on precise repetition.
For the next couple sessions, I would recommend digging into what informs their positions (family history, inner motivations, etc.). Bringing the deeper issues to light could be the key to getting them to understand each other more intimately.
NOTE: Asking one of the patients to endanger his life is, unfortunately, very unethical. I would not recommend that approach under any circumstances.
Qinghe Counseling Group
Therapist: Nie Huaisang
Intern: Lan Sizhui
4th Session
Session Notes and Observations
Per intern rec, focus of session was WWX’s past. NOT an open book. Highly reluctant to talk about parents or foster family. Lost parents as a kid and foster parents seem kinda wack. Possibly why he’s used to doing things on his own, doesn’t respect authority much, blah blah. And why he’s a lunatic in rescue situations?
I asked WWX if he trusts LWJ to have his back. Automatic yes. (And they’re not dating? Lol ok.) Pressed more on whether he relies on LWJ at work & he seemed conflicted. Now we’re cooking! Maybe trust is limited bc he thinks LWJ is a narc (unconfirmed but LWJ seems like a narc, based on vibes and I guess also the fact that he’s been snitching on WWX in these sessions).
We got into the philosophical question of whether you should do something just bc you can (I’m not Socrates, so really no clue where we landed on this debate in the end). Seems part of the issue is that WWX is obv scary good at his job so he trusts himself to pull off these wild heroic stunts bc he knows he can. Not sure if it’s an ego thing too but being very competent w/ a strong sense of justice is a hard combo to argue with. LWJ is gonna have to become better at arguing; his game is weak rn tbh.
Intern Observation Notes
This session gave us some interesting points to work with. Importantly, Wei Wuxian is not doing reckless things just for the sake of it; he cares deeply about others (even strangers) and feels an obligation to help if he can — and it doesn’t seem like he’s found the limits yet of what he can do. His high level of competence and intelligence as a firefighter has allowed him to navigate high-risk situations and survive (albeit with injuries at times). Considering that the risks he takes allow him to save lives, it likely would not be productive to try to dissuade him of those tendencies.
What further complicates the situation is a lack of trust between Wei Wuxian and the fire captain (their boss). Wei Wuxian has issues obeying authority, perhaps partly due to a lack of reliable adults in his life. The fire captain also does not seem to trust Wei Wuxian to pull off these dangerous rescues (no doubt constrained by standard safety protocols). Within that setup, Wei Wuxian may trust Lan Wangji on a theoretical level but does not feel able to rely on him when they’re actually in the field, given Lan Wangji’s strict adherence to protocol. In the next session, perhaps we can try to understand more about Lan Wangji’s feelings on these topics as we work toward finding middle ground.
Qinghe Counseling Group
Therapist: Nie Huaisang
Intern: Lan Sizhui
5th Session
Session Notes and Observations
I really don’t care for WWX’s shirt today—it is legit fugly. Q for intern: can therapists give fashion advice?
Had subjects try some “active listening” today (aka stfu o’clock for WWX while we all sit in silence and wait for LWJ to speak). As expected, waiting for LWJ to speak is almost painfully boring. (Is it unethical for therapists to get bored with subjects?) Seems to have a quota of two words per minute. Made the session feel like it lasted millennia. Even less willing to talk about parents than WWX was. Bro has never met an emotion he didn’t want to repress. I felt like I was poking a bear! Scary!
I’m like pretty sure LWJ’s obsession with rules and order is related to some childhood trauma. Strict upbringing? Or reaction to having parents who didn’t follow rules and met with disaster? Homework idea: tell WWX to investigate LWJ’s deep dark family secrets so we can have a more useful session next week.
When WWX isn’t busy yapping he is just staring at LWJ in a way that people should not look at their coworkers unless they want HR involved. Very interesting. Dare I say sus?
Intern Observation Notes
In this session we focused primarily on Lan Wangji, offering him space to share more about his past. To that end, Wei Wuxian engaged in some active listening exercises to give Lan Wangji a chance to express himself uninterrupted. While little progress was made, it was another step toward getting the patients to open up to each other.
Lan Wangji does not feel comfortable sharing much information about his family history, except that his mother died when he was very young and his father died some years later. I suspect the loss of them has profoundly affected him, and it’s likely he has not fully processed that trauma. We can’t be sure yet how this trauma is manifesting in his adult self, but this topic is worth revisiting in future sessions if Lan Wangji is able to let down some of his walls.
Next week I would recommend trying some validation and positive language exercises to try to address their communication problems again.
NOTE: I would strongly advise against assigning any homework that involves encouraging the patients to violate each other’s privacy.
Qinghe Counseling Group
Therapist: Nie Huaisang
Intern: Lan Sizhui
6th Session
Session Notes and Observations
Midway point check-in: the sexual tension between the subjects seems to grow exponentially more potent every week. Subjects are deeply in denial, to the point where I question their mental faculties. Wack.
Anyway, we did some therapy stuff. Started them with a fun lil game of complimenting each other that so quickly got weird. I thought it would be an easy warm-up but I forgot that they’re disturbing levels of attracted to each other. Figured they would just compliment some basic personality traits or abilities, but ofc we got into bizarre territory pretty quickly, complimenting eyelashes and stuff. Subjects can’t do anything without escalating somewhere I don’t want to follow.
Next I tried to distract them from their obvious lust with an exercise to reframe negative thoughts. The idea is that they present the problems they have with each other and try to find a more positive spin on it. This exercise did not come naturally to the subjects. Actually they were pretty bad at it so intern had to coax them through it. Somehow this part was hard but saying outrageous things about each other’s physiques was totally fine?
WWX admitted he appreciates that LWJ cares enough about him to be upset that he might die. LWJ said he is impressed by WWX’s skills as a firefighter and his dedication to saving lives. WWX said he admires LWJ’s skills too but can’t understand how he allows bureaucratic constraints to get in the way of serving the greater good. At this point it became clear that another argument was about to start, so I subtly changed the time on my desk clock and said time was up. Success!
Intern Observation Notes
The positive language exercises we tried today had mixed results. Certainly, the patients were able to come up with a number of physical attributes they admire about each other, but they seem less comfortable with more personal compliments related to other qualities.
The other exercise we tried did not seem to come naturally to either of them; they struggled to reframe things they resent about each other in order to find a positive element of it. With targeted prompting, however, the patients were able to successfully complete the exercise and hopefully increase their positive associations toward each other (beyond physical characteristics). With the structured exercises, this session was notable for having less arguing than previous sessions.
Qinghe Counseling Group
Therapist: Nie Huaisang
Intern: Lan Sizhui
7th Session
Session Notes and Observations
Luckily for all involved, LWJ’s brother is kinda messy and apparently divulged the dark history of the L family to WWX. Who could’ve seen that coming! Unfortunately neither party looped me in on the tea (sad!) so the deep dark secrets remain a mystery. But WWX seems a lil shook by whatever this info is—perhaps the tides are turning and he will see the light soon?
Bc of that twist reveal, we talked some more abt WWX’s feelings or whatever and he said he gets why LWJ might be afraid of losing people around him but he can’t change himself and his values just bc other people want him to. LWJ said he doesn’t want WWX to change his values but he also doesn’t want him to die. This is what we intellectuals call a snag-32 (or 22?).
Also, intern is not the only one who can come up with therapy exercises! I printed out a bunch of trauma-related raccoon memes to show LWJ and ask if he relates to them. I don’t think he liked this exercise but I haven’t heard anywhere that therapy is supposed to be fun so prob fine. Learned that LWJ is chronically offline and def does not have a sense of humor but I could see in his eyes that the one he related to most was the mommy issues one. Yikes! Good luck w/ that king that’s none of my business fr.
Intern Observation Notes
This session began with the surprising revelation that Wei Wuxian discussed the Lan family history with Lan Wangji’s brother and has apparently gained a new understanding of Lan Wangji. He did not share this information with us as Lan Wangji is not willing to discuss it at this time, but Lan Wangji did say he was not angry with his brother for telling Wei Wuxian about their parents.
Given this development, Wei Wuxian seemed more open to considering Lan Wangji’s side of things during this session, so we were able to open a dialogue between them with greater empathy on either side. While they have not been able to find middle ground yet, I think working toward compromise may be possible.
We also tried a sort of image association exercise(?), which one patient found uncomfortable and the other found extremely amusing. The results were inconclusive.
Qinghe Counseling Group
Therapist: Nie Huaisang
Intern: Lan Sizhui
8th Session
Session Notes and Observations
It’s like destiny is listening to my prayers bc LWJ got injured on the job and did not attend this session! Finally, a chance to make WWX crack. Need to ask intern if it’s malpractice to be pleased that a patient got injured. The timing was really convenient so I feel like it’s fine.
WWX was crashing out this whole session abt how he should’ve been the one who got injured blah blah blah like ok not everything is about you but fine. A building was all messed up from an earthquake and the firefighters were ordered to evacuate after they got all the known survivors out but WWX went in deeper to check for other victims (classic). He didn’t mention this to anyone he just dipped bc apparently there is an I in team? I guess he didn’t want LWJ to start lecturing him which is a little fair tbh. But there was another lil quake and his radio got smashed! A twist! So after not hearing from WWX at all and not seeing him evacuate with everyone else, LWJ predictably freaked and came in to look for him. Bro ended up pushing WWX out of the way and getting crushed by the ceiling falling or something? Honestly cannot understand why they chose this career it does NOT sound like a good time.
WWX did manage to dig him out and LWJ is now in recovery, prob unsettling hospital staff with his brooding silence. Even while unconscious I bet he’s still scary. WWX has like survivor’s guilt kinda except LWJ did survive. So I guess it’s not like survivor’s guilt? Honestly idk what survivor’s guilt is. Ask intern?
I asked WWX what he thinks he should’ve done differently and he said LWJ shouldn’t have come after him. So then I asked what he would do if LWJ didn’t evacuate and couldn’t be contacted at all and he said that would never happen to LWJ and I said damn you’re really bad at hypotheticals. Eventually got him to confess that if he thought LWJ were in danger he would rush in immediately, so like...what did LWJ do wrong then? WWX did not like this question lol. Gave him a lot to think about until next session!
Intern Observation Notes
Lan Wangji got injured at work while looking for and subsequently rescuing Wei Wuxian, so this ended up being a solo session for Wei Wuxian. Despite the unfortunate circumstances, this session did prove productive for Wei Wuxian as he worked through some complicated feelings about both his work style and his partner. I think all this time he has been prepared for his recklessness to hurt himself if something goes wrong, but he was not prepared for his actions to harm someone else, particularly his work partner (and the potential object of his affections).
He expressed frustration with Lan Wangji for coming after him and putting himself in danger, but he was somewhat unwilling to contend with the implications of feeling that way (namely, hypocrisy). This role reversal has started to give Wei Wuxian a new perspective that, if pressed further, may be helpful in reaching a breakthrough between the patients. Additional thought experiments in the next session can test this further.
Qinghe Counseling Group
Therapist: Nie Huaisang
Intern: Lan Sizhui
9th Session
Session Notes and Observations
LWJ is back and unfriendlier than ever! At least to me. He’s obv obsessed with his “colleague” and he seems slightly warm toward intern. Hurtful! Discriminatory?
Subjects sat in awkward silence for the first 5 mins. Tried to prompt WWX to start off with what we discussed last week and then the subjects got into an argument which kept things a little exciting. Honestly felt kinda different from previous arguments since WWX seemed genuinely emotionally invested in the convo instead of just annoyed. Character development? Kinda the stupidest argument ever tho like we get it you both don’t want your lover to die before you even actually get to know each other in the biblical sense. Duh?
The thing they don’t tell you about therapy is that the subjects can be sooooo repetitive. Wish I could suggest they pick a new struggle every week so I don’t get bored.
Anyway I decided to inflame the situation by walking thru some more hypotheticals with the subjects. LWJ said he would do his little rescue shtick all over again and in fact he would do many crazier things if WWX were in danger. WWX was extremely unhappy about all of this but unfortunately for him he’s a total hypocrite if he tells LWJ not to do that and he does not seem to be a fan of hypocrisy. Bro could not explain why he should be allowed to risk it all but LWJ should not.
Finally the tension was defused enough to talk abt realistic things they want from each other (not fantasies we do not want to hear those believe me). The way these two behave you’d think they were dealing with some kind of crisis negotiation but we got there eventually. WWX wants LWJ to trust him to do certain things that are against protocol if he explains why they’re necessary and how he can pull it off. LWJ wants WWX to let him help when he tries to do crazy stuff instead of leaving him in the dark. WWX seemed kinda shocked and delighted at the idea of LWJ helping him do crazy things bc he didn’t realize LWJ is maybe secretly a little crazy too underneath that ice-cold teacher’s pet exterior. Their fire captain is so cooked honestly with these two on the squad wreaking havoc and committing HR violations. But it seems like WWX’s little one-man show is getting a new performer! Or being canceled entirely. Something something deep metaphor something.
I’m exhausted after all my humanitarian work tryna get these two to have a single pleasant conversation. Forget firefighters I think therapists are the real heroes probably!
Intern Observation Notes
The patients made great strides in finding middle ground during this session. The combination of recent events and some targeted thought experiments allowed Wei Wuxian to become more receptive to Lan Wangji’s stance. Knowing firsthand now that disaster can result if he doesn’t communicate his plans with Lan Wangji during a rescue — and also experiencing the fear of a partner getting injured — Wei Wuxian was finally willing to propose a compromise. He will still take what he considers necessary risks, but only if he’s able to explain to Lan Wangji what he’s going to do and why, affording Lan Wangji an opportunity to provide support and find ways to actively mitigate the risks Wei Wuxian will be taking.
Because of this shift in attitude, I believe Lan Wangji felt more comfortable articulating that it’s very important to him that Wei Wuxian trusts him enough to keep him in the loop and allow him to help. Lan Wangji’s greatest desire is for Wei Wuxian to trust him to have his back, and Wei Wuxian has established that he’s willing to extend that trust if he receives it in return.
This session saw both patients taking really positive steps to build trust and communication. In the next session, we can explore whether they’ve been able to put those solutions into practical application at work.
Qinghe Counseling Group
Therapist: Nie Huaisang
Intern: Lan Sizhui
Final Session Therapist Assessment
Persons Present:
☒ Both partners
☐ One partner only: WWX
☐ One partner only: LWJ
☒ Intern: Lan Sizhui
☐ Others
Prognosis of Marriage/Relationship and/or Family
☒ Excellent
☐ Good
☐ Fair
☐ Poor
☐ Undetermined
Session Notes and Observations
Honestly didn’t hear a single thing they said all session bc I was investigating their body language for signs that they’ve finally entered netflix & chill territory. I’m 100% sure they have bc there’s no other explanation for how weird they are together now. It’s truly a miracle they’re both still employed and allowed to work together. Nothing but shenanigans with these two. I hope for the sake of decency they haven’t engaged in sexual congress on top of any of the fire trucks. That’s public property! (I think?)
Denial is a river in Egypt and these subjects may finally be cured of it! I’m such a good matchmaker. Maybe I should get into professional matchmaking instead of this shrink stuff? Will ask intern for opinion on career change.
Intern Observation Notes
Yay! They’re in love!!!
The patients were able to significantly reduce conflict in recent shifts at work and complete successful rescue maneuvers together with the help of their enhanced communication and trust. Wei Wuxian said they even did some trust falls off the fire engine but hopefully he was joking, as that sounds dangerous.
Overall, I think the patients are in a good place to try to navigate their personal and work relationships together and continue to build trust. If they fall back into their original patterns of miscommunication, I would recommend coming back for more counseling sessions to provide a neutral space to work through them.
Honestly, even though I really like them, I hope to never see them again (at least in a professional capacity!). I’m rooting for them.
From: [email protected]
Subject: Wei Wuxian Mandatory Counseling Assessment
To whichever fire people it may concern:
Wei Wuxian attended 10 therapy sessions with a partner at my practice to complete his mandated counseling requirement. It is my professional opinion that he is in love!
From the therapy trenches,
Nie Huaisang
Qinghe Counseling Group
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Wei Wuxian Mandatory Counseling Assessment
To whichever fire people it may concern:
Thanks for your reply. That’s my bad—I wasn’t sure what you were looking for. How’s this: it’s my personal opinion that Wei Wuxian is mentally fit to continue on duty but should work on his sartorial choices.
If you have any questions, please feel free to direct them to my intern!
Nie Huaisang
Qinghe Counseling Group
Qinghe Counseling Group
Client Satisfaction Survey
Wei Wuxian
I feel pretty certain that Nie Huaisang does not actually have a license of any kind (also the diploma on your wall is for sure a fake, right?), but that intern is a good kid! I think he’ll be a great counselor if he trains under an actual licensed professional in future. However, I will be sure to credit the practice in my wedding toast when I inevitably shackle Lan Zhan to me in matrimony one day, assuming we don’t both die heroic deaths before then. Don’t tell Lan Zhan I joked about that; he still does NOT have a sense of humor about these things.
Despite being absolutely sure that you’re a fraud, I do have to thank you for helping us work through some teeny tiny minor disagreements! Even a broken clock is right twice a day, as they say. Your stumble into success is working out very well for me indeed.