“Anyone who has ever confronted healing familial wounds, knows how challenging and unpredictable the road can be. Raw & evocative, Jen Shin’s Have You Received Previous Psychotherapy or Counseling? reads like a dream, with memories of intimacy or a lack thereof, reminding us that even during painful, tumultuous times of learning/unlearning and remembering compassion for ourselves is key.”
—Ari Schill, multi-genre writer & educator

“Jen Shin’s Have You Received Previous Psychotherapy or Counseling? is an intimate excavation of the mind in the throes of therapy. This beautiful, multimodal zine is experiential, traversing memory, examining social systems, and documenting a journey towards tranquility with fascinating notes of speculation. It is a zine to be treasured.”
—Emilly Prado, author of Funeral for Flaca

“Exquisitely brave and uncompromisingly bold, Jen Shin delves into the powerful role of therapy while exploring themes of race, addiction, and intergenerational trauma. Her words - painful, beautiful, and at times haunting - will grip and shake you while gently reminding you that the warm rays of the sun are never too far away.”
—Tara Noronha, Portland writer

“Jen Shin’s zine breaks the fourth wall, reaches across the span of generations, and reveals what can come of collective witness. Her words take their time; time that has been paid for, time that is both confined and spacious. The zine’s form is firmly couched among vibrant strokes of hand drawn pastels, with photographic way posts along the journey: a grainy wash of blue skies, flowers, sand, wood. We are soothed even as we are witness to the grief of death, addiction, and abuse. Jen Shin’s zine hums an interrogation of where power lies, between parent and child, therapist and client, boss and employee, white woman and woman of color, spider and grape.”
—Vanessa Micale, poet, writer, musician, multidisciplinary artist