Emotional Literacy for Professionals: Learning to Feel without Falling Apart
The work becomes part of you. Brandon Jones on the emotional skills helping professionals need so compassion doesn't turn into burnout.
The Catalyst
Sparking better practice and stronger practitioners across behavioral health, medicine, and recovery.
Therapist Self Care
Navigating self care and wellness practices as a mental health clinician
Navigating Race-Based Stress and Microaggressions in the Workplace
Race-based stress and microaggressions do not disappear in mission-driven workplaces. Brandon Jones on the patterns, frameworks, and practical skills every helping professional needs to respond more skillfully.
What Supervision Can’t Fix: Nervous System Protection for Helpers
You can have great supervision, good boundaries, and still carry a client's pain home in your body. Dr. Christine Baker shines a light on nervous system protection for helpers.
The Importance of Self Care for Therapists
I have worked as a psychotherapist for several decades in many different professional settings. While there have been great advances in our therapeutic interventions, up to recently there was not much attention paid more to the issue of self-care for mental health professionals. This in some ways still is a somewhat ne...
Using Journaling for Setting Intentions: Rituals of Reflection
Each December, I begin with a simple ritual: a year in review. I write about the highs and lows, the lessons learned, the works still in progress, and the moments that left a mark. Seeing the year laid out on paper gives me perspective — a sense of where I’ve been, where I am now, and where I want to go.Most resolution...
Resilient Roots: Rethinking Wellness for Helping Professionals
Self-care, health, and wellness are topics that continue to receive considerable attention and are often at the forefront of many of our minds. In many ways the COVID-19 pandemic augmented and unveiled the need for a greater focus on these topics. Self-care is often a large focus in the work we do to support clients, p...
Journaling for Mental Health During the Holidays
It takes an extra effort to take care of our mental health -but even more so during the holiday season. The holidays are often described as “the most wonderful time of the year,” yet for many, they can also bring stress, loneliness, or emotional overwhelm. Between family dynamics, financial pressures, and the expectati...
Supporting Self-Care: 5 Courses for Clinicians Suffering from Burnout
It’s something all clinicians may experience – when the job becomes nothing but work, and every day feels a little bit longer, a little bit duller, than the last. It’s something that many clinicians might not know how to talk about with peers or mentors, but it’s something all clinicians should have the resources and t...
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Embracing Self-Compassion in Social Work
I was reviewing my lecture notes a few hours before teaching my advanced-level graduate clinical social work class, a class that would focus on a cornerstone of the social work profession: empathy and compassion. My bullet points and references had one central theme: how can social workers demonstrate consistent empath...
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The Work is Real: The Significance of African Americans in Labor and the Essential Need to Foster Diversity in Therapeutic Practice
African Americans and LaborI would like to take a moment to consider the significance of this year’s Black History Month theme. "African Americans and Labor" powerfully reflects the crucial contributions of African Americans in shaping our nation’s history. This theme emphasizes the diverse and essential roles that lab...
In-Session Self Care for Therapists
I confess. The bag of Lindt peppermint chocolates I bought last night is nearly gone already (it's 3pm). I did take a walk at lunch – my first workday walk in nearly a month. I then ate my lunch while working, obviously a no-no in the self care world. And yet – it's been a stellar self-care day for me.Why?Because&...
The Parallel Process of Clinical Care Routines
In honor of August’s National Wellness Month, it is important to highlight the significance of clinicians educating their patients on self-care and building their individual clinical care routines. It is undeniable that the current clinical and academic landscape prioritizes psychoeducation on self-care practices for p...
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