Therapist burnout doesn’t always look like overwhelm.
Sometimes it looks like losing your sense of identity.
Or believing you should be able to do more than you can.

In this episode, I share 5 tools that help me keep burnout at bay — not just by working less, but by shifting how I relate to my work. These include autonomy, emotional load, support, narrative acceptance, and personal identity. Plus, a bonus thought on work-life balance from my early-career burnout story.

This one’s for any therapist who’s ever wondered if it’s just them.
(It’s not.)

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Links to Burnout Resources:

ProQOL Measure:

https://proqol.org/proqol-measure

Video: "Let’s talk about Therapist Burnout"

https://youtu.be/-oUOQa_jnPc

APA Article: "Practitioners are overworked and burned out, and they need our support"

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2023/04/psychologists-covid-burnout

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This podcast is geared toward therapists of all kinds, including psychologists, MFTs, LPCCs, social workers, and others in the clinical counseling field. Welcome to Private Practice Skills! I’m Dr. Marie Fang, psychologist in private practice. I post videos offering tools I learned the hard way about starting and growing private practice so that you don’t have to.

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This podcast is not intended as professional or legal advice. Be sure to seek the services of a professional if you are in need of them.