Tag: compassion fatigue

  • 5 Strategies for Having a Stress Free Practice

    “Work would be great if it weren’t for the clients” was something I heard regularly in my former occupation as an accountant. It was said tongue in cheek, but really spoke to a truth about the ambivalence that many feel about their work, and not just in accountancy. We’d like it to be easy and…

  • Setting up In Practice: 8 Important Steps to Looking After Yourself in the Work

    There is a serious danger in this work that the practitioner’s needs become eclipsed by the needs of her clients.  This is particularly so in the early years, when a therapist may not have enough clients and takes on everything that comes their way for fear that there will never be any more.It can also…

  • Minding Your Business of Therapy

    Over the last week, I’ve been making suggestions about how you might use the Therapy Practice Business Assessment as the basis for making some changes to your therapy or counselling practice in 2016. So far, we’ve looked at three areas: Knowing Your Practice, Growing Your Practice and Valuing Your Practice. (You can read the blog…

  • Self Care at Christmas

    At a recent workshop, I was surprised to hear so many speak of the desire to step out of the frantic energy that seems to be around this time of year in the run up to Christmas. My surprise was not just that so many named it, but that I too was feeling it, and…

  • Ten Ways to Help Keep The Stress At Bay

    Most occupations have their stress points, and therapy and counselling are no exception. Sitting with clients while they talk about their lives, particularly if you find yourself tired and drained at the end of the day, can take its toll. The financial climate at present is causing huge stress for many people. Many people find…

  • 7 Ways to Mind Yourself as a Therapist

    Much of our work focusses on the trouble and pain that our clients encounter in their lives. Some days sitting with clients can be a dark and hopeless experience. It’s important therefore that our life outside the therapy room gives us some balance to that. We all have ways that work for us, but at…

  • Are the Therapist and Client a Good Match?

    I have written before on the subject of client and therapist needing to be a good match. (See here) There can be a tendency when first starting out in practice to take any client that comes along, out of fear that there will be no more. That is understandable, but may be a mistake. Some…

  • Feeling Low? (Soap Box Warning)

    You’ve heard the saying about the cobbler’s children haven’t you? So many therapists tell me they enjoy what they do. They speak warmly of the growth they see in clients, the tiny surge of excitement when something changes, and the joy of seeing someone move on to better things. However, sometimes after that first rush…