#therapy fics

Do you happen to have any therapy fic recommendations? Doesn’t have to be the central theme, but I love it as a plotline.

Thank youuuuuuuu

Hi Nonny!!

I have a list called Johnlock in Couple’s Counselling / Therapy that has been added to quite a bit, so I think this one will be close to what you're looking for! :)

Reading therapy fics is wild because I can read descriptions of the tri-phasic model of trauma, stop, and go, “huh. Wait a minute.” And think back through my own therapy sessions and track the whole first phase. I can recognize that we’re coming to the end of that now, every time my therapist congratulates me on using the tools we’ve been talking about. I can read the description of the second phase and realize my own therapeutic journey is just starting to shift into this, that we’re right at the cusp of it. I can start to realize what’s coming, and what are likely future steps in my own healing.

I can read the character’s reactions and remember things I forgot that I used to do but don’t anymore. I can read their progress and start to recognize a few pieces of what I have left to heal. Sometimes I can write down a question to bring to my own therapist, or adopt some language that resonated somewhere inside me.

And I can really, truly, feel the character’s frustration because fuck this healing shit is exhausting and hard. But I can also read and remember that it is so completely worth it. I can gather up the pieces of hope I need to keep moving forward.

Hi Lovely!!!

AHHHH I have NO idea which fic this one is, though I think it's come across my dash before because it sounds familiar. It might be on my Realistic Drugs/Drug Rehab Community Recs selection of fics, but I am not sure at all.

Hi Lovely!

I actually DO have a list you might enjoy, plus a few others I could find:

Johnlock in Couple’s Counselling / Therapy (My List)

Johnlock in Therapy (MASTERPOST)

Couples therapy (SWISSMISS LIST)

Sex therapy AUs (SWISSMISS LIST)

Couples’ Therapy (ALEXX'S LIST)

Going to Therapy (ALEXX'S LIST)

Hey Lovely!

Ah, I honestly can't think of any off the top of my head... I haven't read many S4 fics recently, but I'm sure that there are a few.

Hey Nonny!! <3

Any that I do know of, will be on this Johnlock Pets Community Recs post put together back in April. HOWEVER, one I can think of immediately is this one, with a service dog (I can't remember if it's at the end and then in the rest of the series, or if it happens mid-way):

Proving A Point by elldotsee & J_Baillier (E, 186,270 w., 28 Ch. || PODFIC AVAILABLE || Me Before You Fusion || Medical Realism, Insecure John, Depression, Romance, Angst, POV John, Sherlock Whump, Serious Illness, Doctor John, Injury Recovery, Assisted Suicide, Sherlock’s Violin, Awkward Sexual Situations, Alcoholism, Drugs, Idiots in Love, Slow Burn, Body Image, Friends to Lovers, Hurt / Comfort, Pain, Big Brother Mycroft, Intimacy, Anxiety, PTSD, Family Issues, Psychological Trauma, John Whump, Case Fics, Loneliness, Pain) – Invalided home from Afghanistan, running out of funds and convinced that his surgical career is over, John Watson accepts a mysterious job offer to provide care and companionship for a disabled person. Little does he know how much hangs in the balance of his performance as he settles into his new life at Musgrave Court. Part 1 of the Care And Companionship series

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Hey Lovely!

Ahhhhhh hmm. I don’t recall any other than the ones in my “couple for a case” where they go to couples’ counselling, or the ones where Sherlock goes to rehab... I don’t think those are what you’re looking for, though :/ Hmm. Can I offer you these lists?

Mental Health Related

Post S4 and Mental Health

Rehab/Mental Hospital AU (COMMUNITY RECS)