Mental Work

Ever thought of calling it a day? Bron unpacks the dilemma of when you can't stop thinking about quitting working in mental health. She talks about 👉🏽 the stigma of quitting among mental health professionals 👉🏻 reasons why the urge to quit is understandable and (shock horror) normal 👉 options available to you 👉🏿 pros and cons of quitting your job vs leaving the profession 👉🏾 practical ways to reduce the urge to quit in the first place.

Mental Work is hosted by Dr Bronwyn Milkins, an early-career psychologist.

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Thanks so much for listening. Mental Work is the podcast for early-career mental health professionals that unpacks the everyday challenges they face, so they don’t have to go it alone. 

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Website: https://www.MentalWorkPodcast.com

Credits
Host: Dr Bronwyn Milkins (Psychologist)
Producer: Michael English
Show art: Bronwyn Milkins
Music: Home

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Bron is joined by Clinical Psychologist & Autistic woman, Monique Mitchelson, to unpack how to thrive as a neurodivergent mental health professional. We talk about 👉🏽 avoiding burnout as an autistic/ADHDer 👉🏻 finding your tribe 👉 creating a workplace environment that fits your neurodiversity 👉🏿 knowing your executive strengths and weaknesses 👉🏾 self-acceptance. 

Mental Work is hosted by Dr Bronwyn Milkins, an early-career psychologist.

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Thanks so much for listening. Mental Work is the podcast for early-career mental health professionals that unpacks the everyday challenges they face, so they don’t have to go it alone. 

Love the podcast? You can help keep it alive by joining our Patreon for $2 a month at patreon.com/mentalworkpodcast

Support the show - buy us a coffee! ☕ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mentalwork

Website: https://www.MentalWorkPodcast.com

LINKS

• Monique's podcast, The Neurodivergent Woman: https://www.ndwomanpod.com/
• Change.org petition to allow adults with late diagnosis of ADHD to access fair treatment under the PBS: https://chng.it/jVcfjNmzDv 
• Signs of Autistic Burnout & How to Avoid Burnout for Autistic People resource created by Monique: http://moniquemitchelson.com.au/resources/ 

Credits
Host: Dr Bronwyn Milkins (Psychologist)
Producer: Michael English
Show art: Bronwyn Milkins
Music: Home

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Bron takes you through the dilemma of choosing an area of mental health to specialise in. She talks about 👉 Feeling pressured to niche from colleagues 👉🏼 Benefits of niching 👉🏾 Why you don't have to niche 👉🏻 What Bron feels now after Googling the crap out of niching.

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Thanks so much for listening. Mental Work is the podcast taking a closer look at the everyday challenges faced by early-career mental health professionals, so they don’t have to go it alone.

Love the podcast? You can help keep it alive by joining our Patreon for $2 a month at patreon.com/mentalworkpodcast

Support the show - buy us a coffee! ☕ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mentalwork

Website: https://www.MentalWorkPodcast.com

Credits
Host: Dr Bronwyn Milkins (Psychologist)
Producer: Michael English
Show art: Bronwyn Milkins
Music: Home

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As early-career mental health professionals, we can't possibly know everything and be able to help everyone. So what do you do when you're not a good fit for your client? Bron takes us through why professional 'fit' is important, how to know when a client is a 'good fit' and a 'bad fit', and provides practical tips for how to navigate difficult conversations in the workplace and in private practice.

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Thanks so much for listening. Mental Work is the podcast taking a closer look at the everyday challenges faced by early-career mental health professionals, so they don’t have to go it alone.

Love the podcast? You can help keep it alive by joining our Patreon for $2 a month at patreon.com/mentalworkpodcast

Website: https://www.MentalWorkPodcast.com

Credits
Host: Dr Bronwyn Milkins (Psychologist)
Producer: Michael English
Show art: Bronwyn Milkins
Music: Home

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Bron takes us through the topic that therapists love to avoid: Money 💵. She highlights the negative attitudes embedded in the mental health profession and shares the experiences that have taught her that wanting a liveable salary is not only okay, but necessary.

Mental Work is the podcast unpacking the challenges faced by early career psychologists, so they don’t have to go it alone. Hosted by Dr Bronwyn Milkins.

LINKS

• Research study: The Financial Health of Mental Health Professionals (2015). "Results indicated that when compared to other occupations, mental health professionals report significantly lower levels of financial health."

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CREDITS

Producer: Michael English

Music: Home

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Bron takes us through the challenges and successes of her first year as a private practice psychologist. Listen in for a jam-packed episode full of generously shared tips, tricks, and all the things Bron wishes she had known before starting out. All shared in the spirit of giving you a helping hand if you're thinking of diving into private practice.

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• Thanks so much for listening. Mental Work is the podcast taking a closer look at the everyday challenges faced by early-career mental health professionals, so they don’t have to go it alone.

• Love the podcast? You can help keep it alive by joining our Patreon for $2 a month at patreon.com/mentalworkpodcast

• Website: https://www.MentalWorkPodcast.com

Books about Private Practice

• Fit to Practice by Kaye Frankcom
• Building Your Ideal Private Practice by Lyn Grodzki
• Financial Success in Mental Health Practice by Steven Warfish

Credits
Host: Dr Bronwyn Milkins (Psychologist)
Producer: Michael English
Show art: Bronwyn Milkins
Music: Home

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Why is good supervision so hard to find? And what can you do if you’re not getting what you need from supervision? Bron & Rach talk about their supervision experiences and provide practical tips on how to find a good supervisor, repair bad supervision, and know when to move on.

Hey, thanks for listening! Mental Work is the podcast taking a closer look at the everyday challenges faced by early-career mental health professionals, so they don’t have to go it alone.

Love the podcast? You can help keep it alive by joining our Patreon for $2 a month at patreon.com/mentalworkpodcast

Links to things we talked about:

• Empirical research in clinical supervision: a systematic review and suggestions for future studies | BMC Psychology 
• Supervision and Psychotherapy Process and Outcome: A Meta-analytic Review 
• Impact of clinical supervision on healthcare organisational outcomes: A mixed methods systematic review 
• Enablers and barriers to effective clinical supervision in the workplace: a rapid evidence review | BMJ Open 

Credits
Host: Bronwyn Milkins
Producer: Michael English
Music: Home

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Nearly 1 in 2 adults will experience a diagnosable mental health condition in their lifetime - and that statistic includes mental health professionals. There's still a bunch of stigma around having mental illness as a mental health professional, but we think that's bullocks. So in this episode, Bron and Rach discuss why it's important to acknowledge our lived experience and how we can use it to benefit our clients and make work a better experience overall.

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Thanks for listening! Mental Work is the podcast for early-career psychologists that unpacks the challenge they face, so they don’t have to go it alone.

Love the podcast? You can help keep it alive by joining our Patreon for $2 a month at patreon.com/mentalworkpodcast

www.MentalWorkPodcast.com

Stuff we talked about in the episode:

• Scars on Healing Hands: The Role of Lived Experience in Social Work - SocialWorker.com
• Lived Experience Approach to Mental Health - Black Dog Institute
• Engaging a person with lived experience of mental illness in a collaborative care model feasibility study | Research Involvement and Engagement | Full Text
• What Is WRAP? - Wellness Recovery Action Plan 
• Social work benefits from lived experience, but mandatory working clearances may hold some back - Hack - triple j 

Credits:
Hosted by Bronwyn Milkins (Psychologist) and Rachel Conroy (Social Worker & Researcher)
Produced by Michael English
Show art by Bronwyn Milkins
Music by Home

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Exhausted, struggling to stay afloat, and dreading going to work? You could be burnt out. Bron & Rach share their experiences with burnout and take us through some actionable ways to overcome it.

Thanks for listening. Mental Work is the podcast taking a closer look at the everyday challenges faced by early-career mental health professionals, so they don’t have to go it alone.

Love the podcast? You can help keep it alive by joining our Patreon for $2 a month at patreon.com/mentalworkpodcast

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Stuff we talked about in the episode:

• Moral injury and burnout in medicine: a year of lessons learned - STAT 
• It's Not Burnout, It's Moral Injury | Dr. Zubin Damania on Physician "Burnout" Part 2: Moral Injury, The Sequel | AMA 24 
• Andrew D Wilson on Twitter: "I Burned Out: A Thread" / Twitter
• Burnout in the medical profession: not a rite of passage 
• An assessment of psychological distress and professional burnout in mental health professionals in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic - K Northwood, D Siskind, S Suetani, PA McArdle, 2021 

Hosts: Bronwyn Milkins and Rachel Conroy

Producer: Michael English

Show Art: Bronwyn Milkins

Theme Music: Home

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Do you feel that you’re going to be exposed as a fraud any moment now? In this episode, Bron & Rach take a closer look at Imposter Syndrome, discussing what it is and how to give it the flick.

 

Thanks for listening. Mental Work is the podcast taking a closer look at the everyday challenges faced by mental health professionals, so they don’t have to go it alone.

 

Love the podcast? You can help keep it alive by joining our Patreon for $2 a month at patreon.com/mentalworkpodcast

 

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Stuff we referred to in the ep:

• Prevalence, Predictors, and Treatment of Impostor Syndrome: a Systematic Review
• Impostor Syndrome: A Social Work Graduate Student’s Experience
• My Social Work News
• Impostor syndrome in social work: why do we feel like we're not good enough?

 

Hosts: Bronwyn Milkins (Psychologist) and Rachel Conroy (Social Worker & Researcher)

Producer: Michael English

Show Art: Bronwyn Milkins

Theme Music: Home

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