Any mental health professionals with eye redness struggling with meeting clients?

[shar_63]

Hi everyone! I'm in a mental health counseling Masters program currently, almost halfway through (and committed to tons of loans!). I struggle with making eye contact with people since developing dry eye and attendant eye redness. I am tremendously self-conscious about my eye redness and really questioning whether I should switch programs. Will clients be able to look me in the eye? Will tinted lenses freak them out? Can I handle the ongoing emotional drain of worrying about this issue?

[CJ L.]

shar_63 As long as you're making our own patients' lives better they won't be able to care less about some red eye. My therapist could have three heads and I'd never think twice. Keep up the good fight and the hard work and all will be good.

[shar_63]

CJ L., thank you.