When Amy Begnal was asked earlier this year to provide on-screen premarital relationship counseling to influencer-turned-TV-star Baylen Dupree and her fiancé, she hesitated.

“In doing therapy on air, there’s always an opportunity to be scrutinized,” the clinical director of Anacortes Psych & Wellness recently told the Anacortes American.

But Begnal eventually decided to take part in TLC’s “Baylen Out Loud.”

“Just as we are always asking our clients to be vulnerable — to step into vulnerability as long as it’s emotionally safe enough to do so — I feel like I had to really take that risk too and put myself out there.”

The second season of the reality television show, which premiered last month, follows 22-year-old Dupree, who has a severe case of Tourette syndrome, and fiancé Colin Doole

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