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

Therapy Reimagined

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Curt and Katie talk about reimagining therapy, starting a #therapymovement, and pulling together a community to put on a conference

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:

  • Curt’s love of Legos and the ensuing overuse of this metaphor to describe using building blocks to be creative
  • This conference we’re putting on and why we named it Therapy Reimagined
  • The building blocks that are the foundation of therapy, but how we can use them creatively
  • The individual differences that have been growing the diversity of the profession
  • Sacrificial Helping Syndrome (Katie’s concept about how clinicians can sacrifice their own well-being for the work)
  • How the system isn’t working – it relies on us burning out
  • Why advocacy is important for our profession
  • The irony and sadness about us going into the profession to be a different therapist and then becoming the burned-out therapist
  • What it means when we burn out: lack of resources, mental health stigma, poorer outcomes
  • Creating an action plan for how you will improve the profession
  • Why strong business practices are important for all of us
  • Having a big idea and carrying it through
  • The importance of diversity and our commitment to have diverse faculty and diverse ideas at Therapy Reimagined 2018
  • How important it is to us to hear from you and develop this community around us for the #therapymovement
  • A secret message from Katie at the very end

    • Resources mentioned:

    We’ve pulled together resources mentioned in this episode and put together some handy-dandy links.

    Katie’s article on Sacrificial Helping Syndrome

    Katie’s writing about avoiding Sacrificial Helping Syndrome

    Dr. Ben Caldwell with Ben Caldwell Labs

    Mixing Modern Therapist live networking events – email us for info: [email protected]

    The conversations happening in Our Facebook Group

    first.therapyreimaginedconference.com

    Other Relevant Episodes:

    Our Therapy Reimagined speakers on the podcast -

    The Fight to Save Psychotherapy - Benjamin E. Caldwell

    What Therapists Get Wrong - Paul Gilmartin

    Social Media and Video Marketing for Therapists - Ernesto Segismundo Jr.

    Make Your Paperwork Meaningful - Maelisa Hall

    Be the CEO of your SEO - Perry Rosenbloom

    Becoming a Group Practice Owner - Maureen Werrbach

    Building Hope for the Next Generation of Therapists - Robin Andersen

    Crafting Your Authentic Message - Mercedes Samudio

     

    Our event this year:

    The Therapy Reimagined Conference in Los Angeles in October 2018!!

    Our new consultation services:

    The Fifty-Minute Hour 

    Credits:

    Voice Over by DW McCann https://www.facebook.com/McCannDW/

    Music by Crystal Grooms Mangano http://www.crystalmangano.com/

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