Do you dream of retiring on your 36th birthday? In this week’s episode, we'll explore how moving away from one-to-one work can bring up feelings of shame and guilt for therapists and counselors. Patrick shares why a shift in perspective is crucial and provides a positive spin on a much-needed conversation. We'll learn how diversifying our income streams and reaching out to a larger audience can make a bigger impact in our lives and communities.

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It can be challenging to advocate for clients using our voice, but advocacy is an essential aspect of our work as therapists. Laura Reagan of the Trauma Therapist Network and Therapy Chat Podcast shares a pivotal experience right out of graduate school where she used her voice. While it didn't go as planned, it did help her in the long run. Join us this week as we explore the nuances of advocating for clients and the difficulties that come with it.

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Alcohol is a topic that is often discussed in our society, but it can be a divisive issue. People are often seen as either alcoholics or sober, with no in-between. However, Alana highlights the sometimes difficult transition from college to graduate school and the role of alcohol in our personal and professional lives.

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Justin shares his story of leaving the priesthood and working as a school counselor. While there was some overlap between pastoral counseling and school counseling, he quickly learned he was in over his head. While this might seem like a very specific situation, our conversation ends up being incredibly relatable! We laugh, we learn new resources, and so much more in this episode including Justin’s CPR framework - consultation, personal reflection, and refer out!

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If there are over 100 deaths by suicide each day in America, how many therapists lose a client to suicide each day? While we don't have the exact answer, we must keep discussing suicide. Listen with care and join us as we hear from Emily about an experience she had losing a client to suicide and how she's processing it.

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Have you ever felt like the systems you learned in grad school didn't actually fit or support the populations you see? We're going to learn all about finding your own style of treatment, decolonizing your practice, and why working harder is not necessarily better in your private practice.

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Can therapists work in private practice right away, or is there an unwritten rule that we have to first pay our dues in community mental health? Joanna shares her goal of working in private practice right out of graduate school and how our field sometimes makes us feel like we have to "pay our dues" in community mental health first. We explore why it's important to consider all settings when thinking about internship and practicum, what the phrase "boots on the ground" really means, and the helpful reminder that therapists are needed in all settings.

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Join us as we hear from Alexa who has a pretty big trauma response in the middle of a family therapy session. She shares with us how she fails to practice what she preaches and how she managed her reaction without the family noticing. We round out the discussion with much-needed reminders about our humanity as therapists and how to manage our human responses, even if they're in the middle of a therapy session.

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Transference and countertransference - we learned about it in grad school and talk about it a lot as clinicians, but do we really break it down enough to understand the impact? Join us as we hear from Becca who shares her journey in understanding and using transference and countertransference in the therapy room. Transference might feel like a familiar topic, but the conversation will go differently than you think!

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Many of us learned a lot about ourselves during COVID, saw how we coped with different situations, and how that could even impact our work as therapists. Join us as we hear from Taylor who realized she had unhealthy coping skills and strategies during that time. Taylor also shares how she recognized when addiction was taking over her life outside of the clinical room, how it may have been impacting her inside the clinical room and what she did about it to manage her career throughout the process.

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