Therapy for Therapists

Being able to participate in a other people’s growth and healing is an amazing thing.  

Therapists struggle with issues like anxiety, depression,  anger, grief, loss, worry or stress just like everyone else.  We’re not immune to difficult life transitions, childhood trauma, parenting struggles, relationship challenges, and we carry no special protection against tragedy.   The pandemic has taken a toll and created feelings of overwhelm and stress for us all. It’s important for therapists to have the opportunity to process their own struggles and receive support too.  

Helping people heal and grow is sacred and powerful and can change people’s lives for the better.  But it is TOUGH.  As helpers we deal with compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, grief, countertransference and our own unhealed pain that rises to the surface as we work.  It’s a professional hazard.  We sit with people in their pain day after day. We read books, go to trainings, practice new skills to learn how to best help our clients. We work hard, knowing that providing support to others can bring up our own stuff too.  

When we process our own internal responses we gain a rich opportunity for personal and professional growth and healing.  Having a safe place to talk about the joys and struggles of work and life can makes a difference in our ability to be present and fulfilled, happy, and healthy in life.   I enjoy working with other therapists and being that support.