Y'all this episode hits so close to home for me! I am thrilled to have had the chance to sit and chat with Victoria Rodriguez, PLPC, about burnout among community-based MH professionals, as well as the specific considerations for safety & community care for those working in this type of setting. Victoria shares her research into this specific area of service and talks about ways to manage feelings of guilt or discomfort when working with clients in their homes and communities.

Victoria Rodriguez (she/her/hers) is a provisionally licensed counselor who provides home-based services with a community mental health agency in South Louisiana. As a PhD student at the University of New Orleans, she has published research on barriers to treatment in community mental health and the theory-application gap in non clinical settings and presents regionally and nationally on home-based counseling. She is passionate about making community mental health sustainable for clinicians and now offers consulting services to address burnout at all agency levels. 

Find Victoria's research and other resources at mycarismyoffice.com and on social media at @my.car.is.my.office

Get more information about consultation services with Victoria at www.revivepractice.com

To apply to be a guest on this show, please fill out this Interviewee Interest form and let me know what you'd like to add to the conversation!

To get individualized help finding your way out of burnout, schedule a 1-1 burnout coaching session with Meg on Calendly.

Music: DriftMaster by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com
IG: @mentalstatuspod
Website: mentalstatus.transistor.fm
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Disclaimer, y'all: This is a podcast meant for education and entertainment purposes only. I'm not your therapist. This podcast doesn't replace therapy or clinical supervision and isn't supposed to replace those things. If you need a therapist or supervisor, please find one. My opinions are my own and don't reflect the opinion(s) of my past/present/future employers.

Whew. This one is fun. For this episode, I invited my patient and thoughtful fiancé, Nate, onto the show. In it, we talk about how my burnout affected him & his relationship with me, we talk about the vital importance of communicating needs & expectations with each other as a way of mitigating the effects of burnout and pushing forward into the unknown, and he offers some sage advice to past me (which hopefully future me is able to hear).

To apply to be a guest on this show, please fill out this Interviewee Interest form and let me know what you'd like to add to the conversation!

To get individualized help finding your way out of burnout, schedule a 1-1 burnout coaching session with Meg on Calendly.

Music: DriftMaster by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com
IG: @mentalstatuspod
Website: mentalstatus.transistor.fm
Talk to me: mentalstatuspod [at] gmail.com

Disclaimer, y'all: This is a podcast meant for education and entertainment purposes only. I'm not your therapist. This podcast doesn't replace therapy or clinical supervision and isn't supposed to replace those things. If you need a therapist or supervisor, please find one. My opinions are my own and don't reflect the opinion(s) of my past/present/future employers.

In this episode, we explore some of the more common unhelpful thoughts and beliefs that can contribute to burnout in the helping field, which include:

• The needs of others take priority over my own
• If I don't do it, nobody will
• Self care is selfish when so many are in need
• Setting boundaries with others means I am rude or uncaring
• Feeling this way means I'm doing something wrong or I'm not trying hard enough

Meg talks a little bit about how these thoughts can be harmful (and sneaky!) and offers up some positive reframes/thought challenges you can use to stop being an asshole to yourself and start treating yourself like a human with emotions instead.

To apply to be a guest on this show, please fill out this Interviewee Interest form and let me know what you'd like to add to the conversation!

To get individualized help finding your way out of burnout, schedule a 1-1 burnout coaching session with Meg on Calendly.

Music: DriftMaster by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com
IG: @mentalstatuspod
Website: mentalstatus.transistor.fm
Talk to me: mentalstatuspod [at] gmail.com

Disclaimer, y'all: This is a podcast meant for education and entertainment purposes only. I'm not your therapist. This podcast doesn't replace therapy or clinical supervision and isn't supposed to replace those things. If you need a therapist or supervisor, please find one. My opinions are my own and don't reflect the opinion(s) of my past/present/future employers.

In this episode, we go over the definitions for compassion fatigue (aka vicarious traumatization) and burnout, talk about the differences between the two, and do a brief exploration of how important it is to consider how your identity will influence the way you experience these things.

American Institute of Stress: www.stress.org

"When Helpers Need Help" Webinar Recording: YouTube

To apply to be a guest on this show, please fill out this Interviewee Interest form and let me know what you'd like to add to the conversation!

To get individualized help finding your way out of burnout, schedule a 1-1 burnout coaching session with Meg on Calendly.

Music: DriftMaster by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com
IG: @mentalstatuspod
Website: mentalstatus.transistor.fm
Talk to me: mentalstatuspod [at] gmail.com

Disclaimer, y'all: This is a podcast meant for education and entertainment purposes. I'm not your therapist. This podcast doesn't replace therapy or clinical supervision and isn't supposed to replace those things. If you need a therapist or supervisor, please find one. My opinions are my own and don't reflect the opinion(s) of my past/present/future employers.

Join Meg as she explores how by not taking burnout seriously and believing that only other people experienced burnout, she got burnt the f*ck out... and fast.  

To apply to be a guest on this show, please fill out this Interviewee Interest form and let me know what you'd like to add to the conversation!

To get individualized help finding your way out of burnout, schedule a 1-1 burnout coaching session with Meg on Calendly.

Music: DriftMaster by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com
IG: @mentalstatuspod
Website: mentalstatus.transistor.fm
Talk to me: mentalstatuspod [at] gmail.com

Disclaimer, y'all: This is a podcast meant for education and entertainment purposes. I'm not your therapist. This podcast doesn't replace therapy or clinical supervision and isn't supposed to replace those things. If you need a therapist or supervisor, please find one. My opinions are my own and don't in any way reflect the opinion(s) of my past/present/future employers.

In this very first episode, Megan talks about her own journey(s) through burnout as an early-career therapist, as well as who this podcast is for and why.

Music: DriftMaster by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com
IG: @mentalstatuspod
Website: mentalstatus.transistor.fm
Talk to me: mentalstatuspod [at] gmail.com

Disclaimer, y'all: This is a podcast meant for education and entertainment purposes. I'm not your therapist. This podcast doesn't replace therapy or clinical supervision and isn't supposed to replace those things. If you need a therapist or supervisor, please find one. My opinions are my own and don't reflect the opinion(s) of my past/present/future employers.