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Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental Health

E.36 Therapists/Counselors/Social Workers Are Burning Out...Why?

Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental Health

Steve Bisson

Substance Use, Mental Health, Psychology, Education, Counseling, Social Sciences, Honest, Science, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

5.021 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I talk about the challenges and difficulties that our profession has faced during the recent pandemic. I am obviously so happy that we are now seeing the importance of mental health but this pandemic has created a mental health crisis which is now affecting counselors/treaters that are meant to be the front line. It has been difficult for many of us, which is why I wanted to discuss it on this podcast. Compassion fatigue is also discussed. Support the show ...

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0:00.0

Hi and welcome to finding your way through therapy.

0:04.5

I am your host, Steve Bissan.

0:06.7

I'm an author and mental health counselor.

0:09.6

Are you curious about therapy?

0:11.7

Do you feel there is a lot of mystery about therapy?

0:14.6

Do you wonder what your therapist is doing and why?

0:17.5

The goal of this podcast is to make therapy and psychology accessible to all by using real language and straight to the point discussions.

0:24.5

This podcast wants to remind you to take care of your mental health, just like you would your physical health.

0:30.4

Therapy should not be intimidating. It should be a great way to better health.

0:34.6

I will demystify what happens in counseling, discuss topics related to mental

0:38.8

health and discussions you can have with your therapist. I also want to introduce psychology

0:43.5

in everyday life, as I feel most of our lives are enmeshed in psychology. I want to introduce

0:49.4

the subtle and not so subtle way psychology plays a factor in our lives. It will be my own mix of thoughts

0:55.7

as well as special guests. So join me on this discovery of therapy and psychology.

1:03.0

Hi and welcome to episode 36 of finding your way through therapy. If you haven't listened to episode

1:07.9

35 yet with Kristen Nazaro, please do so.

1:11.3

It was an amazing conversation, really meant a lot to me.

1:14.4

We've known each other for a while now and it was a great conversation.

1:18.3

But episode 36 is going to be a little bit of more of my editorial of the last couple of years and where we're at as therapists.

1:26.5

This is not a reflection of all therapists,

1:28.5

just my own meandering thoughts, and that's why you listen to me anyway, right? So I wanted to

1:33.5

talk about the pandemic and how it's affected everyone, including therapists. And what I mean by

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