Leezer, 30, a licensed clinical social worker in Chicago who runs his own private practiceShe created TikTok less than a month ago to post videos about the kinds of things she focuses on with her clients: self-esteem, body image, anxiety. Then last week, he received the comment on one of his videos.
“At that moment, my blood ran hot,” Leezer told BuzzFeed News.
Leezer, who now has nearly 31,000 followers on the app, said he had never considered a different reading of the words when he created the account, and in his work he sees the word “therapist” so frequently that he never considered another interpretation.
Many commentators pointed out that it was similar to a joke in a Saturday night live “Celebrity Jeopardy” sketch with Darrell Hammond as Sean Connery:
