Therapist Burnout Recovery Book for Solo and Group Private Practice Owners
Licensed, pre-licensed, nonprofit or agency worker, business owner, solo, group, if you’re a therapist, regardless of your licensure status or stage of practice, the story is often the same: You’re underpaid, overworked, and experiencing therapist burnout.
What Is Therapist Burnout?
Therapist burnout is when you feel overworked, stressed out, tired, and unable to feel the passion and joy you once did when starting out as a therapist. The good news is that there are tangible steps you can take to go from a burnout therapist to a thriving therapist again.
Today, zynnyme goes over the signs of therapist burnout and how to take steps toward healing.
Signs of Therapist Burnout
If you’re curious to know if you’re experiencing burnout, here are some signs of therapist burnout:
Feeling depleted or exhausted
Inability to find the joy and excitement for the work you love to do.
Struggling to stay on track or focused.
Sensations of anxiety.
With the normalization of unsustainable caseloads and limited income opportunities for traditional employees, therapists are essentially pushed into an oppressive system that takes away their time, earning potential, energy, and — worst of all — love of the work they do.
And even when you take the next steps into private practice, you might find that not much has changed. Because if you’re subconsciously replicating the patterns and systems that left you feeling drained, to begin with, becoming a business owner only adds to MORE stress.
How to Go from Burnout Therapist to Thriving Therapist
But therapist burnout doesn’t have to define the work you do.
Once you identify the unhelpful beliefs and habits you took with you from grad school, internships, nonprofit and agency work, or even talks with other well-intentioned therapists, you’ll have the clarity you need to start making changes to reduce (and eventually eliminate) therapist burnout from your life and private practice.
We just published a WHOLE BOOK on therapist burnout, but we want to give you some recommendations to help you get started.
Tips on Improving Burnout for Therapists
Here are our top tips on how to improve burnout for therapists:
Make a list of all the things you’re regularly doing in your business and take note of any activities that leave you feeling drained and uninspired.
Consider whether it’s possible to eliminate some of your therapist burnout by scrapping or outsourcing some of those not-so-fun tasks.
Identify some of your limiting beliefs and test out whether a different perspective can be just as true. (For example, “Private practice isn’t financially sustainable” can be transformed into “Private practice pays the bills” with something as simple as a fee raise.)
The above recommendations can help you get started, but if you want to completely revamp your private practice so it’s burnout-free, check out our new book on therapist burnout!
Training on Therapist Burnout
We also offer a training for therapists on therapists burnout that will help you learn how to identify when burnout is happening to you and what you can do to go from stressed out to more relaxed and grounded. Because who doesn’t want a good work/life balance and a therapy practice that they love?
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