Last week Amy Flaherty, LPE-I, RPT wrote a guest post talking about the One Thing That Every Psychotherapist's Partner Doesn't Get and she was kind enough to drop back in today to share an infographic she designed to continue the conversation.
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The One Thing Every Psychotherapist’s Partner Doesn’t Get
I don't even remember when Licensed Psychological Examiner with Independent Status Amy Flaherty and I first crossed paths. It seems like it must have been years ago.
Then, within the last couple of years, we've had opportunities to chat, collaborate, and network with each other online.
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How Do You Prevent Burnout In Your Psychotherapy Practice?
It seems that everywhere I go . . . to online discussion lists, in networking groups across town, at professional development workshops, and in working with my own supervisees . . . the topics of wellness, burnout, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue are being talked about by mental health {...}
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The Hazards Of Practicing Mental Health: What Our Colleagues In Mental Health Know . . . That Our Friends And Families Do Not
I was hanging out on Google+ last night when I ran across a link to Stretched, this fabulous post on WhatAShrinkThinks about the tolls of doing business as a mental health professional. The therapist / blogger references terms like "working in secrecy," "empathy-fatigue," and "talking binges."
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