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

Who Gets to Have Therapy?

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Curt and Katie talk about therapists’ responsibility for mental health access and the (sometimes moral) decision about whether one focuses on income or providing treatment to all. We look at a living wage, the mental health system, entrepreneurship, and capitalism.     

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:

  • Is mental health access a universal right?
  • Group Practice Owner’s Summit 2019 where Katie got some wild ideas, especially during the talk by Maureen Werrbach and Michael Blumberg: Mental Health Access as a Human Right
  • The moral dilemma regarding raising your fees to the point that you are only working with people who can afford it
  • The extremes of martyrdom and pure entrepreneurship/capitalism
  • Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs as a place to assess where we identify human rights
  • The distinction of the system providing mental health access and individuals providing this access
  • Homelessness, mental illness, and addiction
  • Where systems and social services are best able to take care of mental health and other concerns
  • Larger mission and vision of how to impact the world
  • Taking care of your needs as a therapist/person first before society
  • The systemic issue of not providing all therapists a living wage and therapists needing to go into entrepreneurship to survive
  • The potential impact of universal mental healthcare on entrepreneurship and the field
  • The concern about stagnation and stifled innovation
  • The power of passion and motivation in the work
  • Finding creative ways to increase access, while not negatively impacting your bottom line
  • How to make individual decisions about mental health access versus the therapist’s individual income
  • Self-actualization - #topofthepyramid
  • How the system impacts which therapists are able to continue practicing
  • Draw bridge effect of later career therapists not treating newer therapists how they wished they were treated
  • Locus of Control impacting decision-making
  • The poor treatment of employees, low wages as contributing factors
  • The system impacts on people at all levels
  • Basic Needs - #bottomofthepyramid
  • Profit First versus clients who do not bring revenue in
  • Beyond Basic Needs - #middleofthepyramid
  • The salary needs that connects to optimal happiness
  • Questions about how to address these concerns and which to address first
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