Welcome to LibbyisComplex - where we honor the fact that brains and bodies are complicated.

I’m Libby Banks, MA, LPC, LCDC. I’m a practitioner-researcher, author, deep thinker, and person who’s gotten pretty darn good at holding a lot of things at once. I’m autistic, chronically ill, and a survivor of a few too many crises.

Here, I dive into mental health from the perspective of someone who knows what it’s like to have a brain that’s constantly deep-thinking, feeling a lot, and refusing to do what I ask it to, even if I ask VERY nicely. From the weight of trauma to the absurdity of daily life, I offer reflections, insights from therapy work, and the occasional rabbit hole of weirdness.

Brains are a lot, but laughing and learning about them is restorative.

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