Counseling for Counselors

Professionals in the helping career field often experience burnout, compassion fatigue, and stress related to work. Burnout is a cumulative sense of fatigue and dissatisfaction that can develop throughout a provider's career. Compassion fatigue describes the negative physical, emotional, and psychological impact experienced when providing care to others. Its common for providers to experience difficulties managing stress, relationship conflicts, situational anxiety, situational depression, and secondary trauma through supporting others. It can be challenging for them to maintain personal wellness due to career expectations and demanding requirements to support others.

Signs of Compassion Fatigue:

• Sadness & Grief

• Avoidance or dread of working with some patients

• Reduced ability to feel empathy towards patients or families

• Somatic complaints

• Nightmares

• Change in beliefs, expectations, assumptions

• Detachment

• Increase of unhealthy coping habits, such as alcohol or substance use

Signs of Burnout:

• Fatigue

• Anger

• Negative reactions toward others

• Cynicism

• Withdrawal

• Negativity

You know as well as anyone that counseling is an effective way to treat your emotional and behavioral responses to stress. As your therapist, I can provide you with strategies to help you increase resilience to burnout and compassion fatigue. Through counseling, I can help you develop the necessary insights and tools to mange your mental health concerns. I can guide you through examining the intersection of work related stress and mental wellness. Through this exploration, I can help you to develop a roadmap to successful living and career satisfaction.