LA Woman Uncovers Her Therapist’s Secret Identity Years Later. Then Everything About Their Sessions Starts To Make Sense: ‘I Was Like, What?’
An LA woman assumed her therapist couldn't relate to a public breakup. Years later she realized who she was.
A Los Angeles woman has gone viral after revealing that she only discovered years after ending therapy that her former therapist was Elin Nordegren, the ex-wife of golf star Tiger Woods. She says the unexpected discovery completely changed how she looked back on their sessions.
TikTok creator Soph Mosca (@sophmosca) says she never searched for information about her therapist while they were working together. It was only after ending therapy that she looked up her name online and realized she had been speaking with Nordegren without ever knowing who she was.
Mosca says the discovery particularly surprised her because she had once felt her therapist could not fully understand the experience of going through a highly public breakup.
She finally decided to look her up
In the video, the creator says she began seeing a therapist in person while living in Florida in 2021. She describes the therapist as kind, professional, and someone she genuinely enjoyed working with.
The creator says she has a personal rule of not looking up therapists online because she doesn’t want details about their personal lives to affect what she shares in sessions. She says she avoided searching for information about whether they were married, had children, or maintained a public profile.
Things changed after her highly public breakup in 2022. While discussing it in therapy, she says she felt her therapist could not fully relate to experiencing a breakup while being watched by so many people online.
Believing they were no longer the right fit, the creator says she eventually stopped seeing the therapist. It was only afterward that curiosity led her to search for the therapist’s name online.
She says she first found a private Instagram account with thousands of followers, which immediately struck her as unusual. Unsure why a therapist would have such a large audience, she searched the name on Google.
That is when she realized her former therapist was Elin Nordegren, who became internationally known during her marriage to Tiger Woods and the highly publicized end of their relationship. Mosca says she was stunned because she had spent months believing her therapist could not understand the pressures of a public breakup.
Looking back, she says the discovery completely changed how she viewed many of their conversations. At the same time, she made clear that it did not change her opinion of the therapist’s work, describing Nordegren as an excellent therapist and saying she had “zero bad things to say” about her.
Mosca’s story comes as therapy continues to be a topic of discussion online. Recent stories have included a woman who said her therapist diagnosed her with “AI psychosis” after excessive chatbot use, as well as concerns from some patients who were uncomfortable learning therapists were using AI tools to record sessions and generate notes. Together, the stories highlight the trust many people place in the therapist-client relationship.
The video quickly filled with reactions from viewers, many of whom admitted they never expected the story to end with the therapist being Nordegren. “Your therapist was ELIN NORDEGREN!!!! oh my god she’s literally perfect,” one commenter wrote. Another said, “That was a curveball I was definitely not expecting.”
Several commenters identifying themselves as therapists said the situation reflected a common challenge within the profession. One wrote, “Therapist here! It’s SUPER common to be going through the same experiences our clients are going through.”
(Featured Image: Screenshot via @sophmosca/TikTok; additional image by U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 1st Class Brien Aho, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
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