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

Defining the Therapy Movement


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Live Podcast: Curt and Katie are live at Therapy Reimagined 2019. We talk about what the #therapymovement aspires to accomplish. We talk about the broken educational system, the need for a livable wage, the ways we can improve our profession, and stronger ways that we can show up for our clients.          

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:

  • The origin story of the #therapymovement
  • What needs to be changed in our profession
  • The conversations we are having and need to continue having
  • Conversations with #moderntherapists about education and therapist-ways-of-being
  • How continuing education needs to shift to support the actual job
  • The difference between what graduate programs teach and what the work actually looks like
  • What do we do to improve the profession?
  • The importance of a livable wage
  • #postthepay
  • The threat on our scope of practice if we don’t have adequate numbers
  • The need to improve the quality of the therapists that come out of the educational system
  • The importance of getting new voices into the conversation
  • Looking at what therapy has been versus what therapy can be
  • How to step into leadership in this #therapymovement
  • The way to effect change, both in our office and the world
  • The importance of being present to help keep our clients alive
  • Now what?
  • ...more
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