As a kid, I would rarely raise my hand in class because I had such an extreme fear of being wrong. As any of my colleagues will tell you, I have become much more outspoken. But it wasn’t until I was in graduate school in my mid-20s that I finally felt confident speaking up, recognizing …
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We need to move beyond “trauma informed care.” This should no longer be the minimum standard of what Master’s level therapists and social workers should be offering to clients. We need true, trauma informed therapy practices to be taught from our foundational graduate programs. After over a decade working in non-profits and 6 years managing …
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Watching Lindsay Clancy’s prescribers, I’m struck by a few things. I’m not here to weigh in on their individual practices, but to speak to the ways that the system as a whole does not prepare clinicians to practice independently. Therapists are under-prepared to practice independently. Working in non-profits for 11 years, I saw clinicians move …
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You’ve likely heard about how effective EMDR can be for past traumatic events and to heal PTSD. But a PTSD diagnosis requires 4 weeks of persistent symptoms. What if you are experiencing ongoing trauma in your workplace? What if you had a single event this week? “Workplace trauma” looks different based on your profession and …
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Here’s the thing that’s bringing neurodiverent women into my therapy practice in Denver, CO: Burnout and anxiety. The neurodivergent women I meet with are high-achieving and high-performing professionals. Here’s what that means to me as your therapist: When you’re a high-performing neurodivergent woman, you have been working over-time to appear pulled together I say this …
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Childhood Roots of Burnout in High-Achieving Adults In Caring Professions in NYC You’re already putting your needs aside to care for others. You came into one of these professions because you were already care taking. Some of the childhood signs you would go into a high-achieving healthcare profession – and potentially also that increase your …
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