The Modern Therapist's Survival Guide with Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy

Addressing the Burnout Machine

Listen Later

Curt and Katie talk about taking personal responsibility to decrease the impacts of the “Burnout Machine” that is the mental health profession. We look at what should go into an ideal work place and actions each of us can take to improve our own situation as well as the system as a whole. 

It’s time to reimagine therapy and what it means to be a therapist. To support you as a whole person and a therapist, your hosts, Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy talk about how to approach the role of therapist in the modern age.

In this episode we talk about:

  • Looking at how to create better systems for mental health workplaces
  • Magical places that could provide adequate pay, training, and emotionally-focused supervision
  • The importance of incorporating the appropriate employee support into budgets
  • Employee engagement versus turnover
  • The need for larger conversations with stakeholders to improve things systemically
  • Sorting through the challenges and benefits of efficiency and productivity
  • Looking at training supervisors
  • The faulty notion that therapy isn’t about the therapist
  • The need for the business or administrative aspects – we can’t get rid of them.
  • Employee, employer, or entrepreneur skills are required for the system to work
  • Balancing the focus on the clinician as a member of the system, a professional, and as an individual
  • The risks of human connection within an employment situation
  • The benefits of exploring the emotions and human connection on professional development, client outcomes
  • Looking at the expectations around supervision that are described in graduate school
  • Addressing the parallel process within the supervisor/supervisee and therapist/client
  • The power differential in becoming a supervisor and navigating the relationship
  • Knowing ourselves at all developmental stages
  • The impact of “Supervision of Supervision” groups
  • The unfortunate scenario where people are rushing to licensure without meeting their developmental stages
  • Being able to support prelicensees’ primary needs of survival (providing financial stability) so they can slow down and take care of their developmental stages
  • How to set up a career that works for you
  • How to identify opportunities to move the profession forward
  • Assessing your own capacities to improve your career and the profession
  • The problem of being cynical and complaining about the system instead of taking action
  • Taking a personal look and personal responsibility for your career
    • ...more
    View all episodesView all episodes
    Download on the App Store
    The Modern Therapist's Survival Guide with Curt Widhalm and Katie VernoyBy Curt Widhalm, LMFT and Katie Vernoy, LMFT
    • 4.4
    • 4.4
    • 4.4
    • 4.4
    • 4.4

    4.4

    236 ratings

    More shows like The Modern Therapist's Survival Guide with Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy

    View all
    The One You Feed by Eric Zimmer

    The One You Feed

    2,515 Listeners

    The Trauma Therapist by Guy Crawford Macpherson

    The Trauma Therapist

    528 Listeners

    Therapy Chat by Laura Reagan, LCSW-C

    Therapy Chat

    674 Listeners

    Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson by Rick Hanson, Ph.D., Forrest Hanson

    Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

    2,463 Listeners

    Counselor Toolbox Podcast with DocSnipes by Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes

    Counselor Toolbox Podcast with DocSnipes

    611 Listeners

    Therapist Uncensored Podcast by Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

    Therapist Uncensored Podcast

    1,378 Listeners

    Psychologists Off the Clock by Debbie Sorensen, Jill Stoddard, Yael Schonbrun, Michael Herold & Emily Edlynn

    Psychologists Off the Clock

    320 Listeners

    The Couples Therapist Couch by Shane Birkel

    The Couples Therapist Couch

    271 Listeners

    Attachment Theory in Action by The Knowledge Center

    Attachment Theory in Action

    156 Listeners

    Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast by David Puder, M.D.

    Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

    1,324 Listeners

    Light Up The Couch by Clearly Clinical

    Light Up The Couch

    327 Listeners

    The One Inside: An Internal Family Systems (IFS) podcast by Tammy Sollenberger

    The One Inside: An Internal Family Systems (IFS) podcast

    272 Listeners

    Notice That by Jen Savage, Melissa Benintendi, and Bridger Falkenstien

    Notice That

    312 Listeners

    Dear Therapists with Lori Gottlieb and Guy Winch by iHeartPodcasts

    Dear Therapists with Lori Gottlieb and Guy Winch

    2,343 Listeners

    Trauma Rewired by Jennifer Wallace & Elisabeth Kristof

    Trauma Rewired

    309 Listeners