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Fatigued. Anxious. Irritable. Depressed. How are you actually doing? Welcome to Mental Status, a podcast made for burnt-out therapists looking to reignite their life beyond the chair. Each episode, your host Meg explores the ins, outs, ups and downs of being a professional helper in the modern age, and ways to help the most important person of all—yourself.
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About Today's Guest: Belma McCaffrey is a Career & Leadership Coach, and CEO and Founder of Work Bigger [www.workbigger.co]. She helps high-achievers figure out what they really want to do with their career and life so that they can find the fulfillment they’re craving. At Work Bigger, Belma and her team integrate deep mindset work and neuroscience…
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About Today's Guest: Rachel Elder (rae-chill L-der), she/her, is a licensed mental health counselor and a relationship coach in Seattle. Rachel is the owner of Rachel Elder Therapy and Rachel Elder Coaching where she works with couples to help them build stronger relationships. She enjoys this work so much, that she is in the process of creating co…
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About Today's Guest: Jacqueline Hurst is the UK's leading Life Coach with her private practice based in London’s Mayfair welcoming a diverse and global clientele base. Alongside her successful practice, she is the No.1 International Bestselling Author of ‘How To Do YOU’ and she is the founder of “The Life Class” an online life coaching school where…
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About Today's Guest: Liza Mordkovich is a Licensed Social Worker, Licensed Art Therapist, Psychotherapist and Coach. She is passionate about helping individuals conquer anxiety, addiction, stress and working through perinatal mood disorders. Liza combines evidence based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and dialectic behavioral therapy (DBT) to h…
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About Today's Guest: Vitor de Souza is the host of The Student Counselor podcast. You can find Vitor on instagram @student.counselor.podcast Credits, links & other things: Intro & Outro Music: DriftMaster by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com Mental Status IG: @mentalstatuspod Talk to me: mentalstatuspod [at] gmail.com Apply to be a guest…
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About Today's Guest: Shawny Sena is an LMFT in Minneapolis, MN. She runs her own private practice, and is a copy coach for weirdo therapists. Shawny hosts writer's retreats and provides coaching for therapists and direct-care providers, to help them face their "creativity shadow." You can find Shawny on instagram @weirdotherapistcoaching and the ha…
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About Today's Guest: Jeff Guenther, LPC is a therapist in Portland, OR. He’s been a practicing therapist since 2005. His therapeutic career started out at a crisis line as well as a local agency where he counseled teenager and families. He has spent most of his career in private practice counseling adults and specializing in relationships. Jeff co-…
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About Today's Guest: Dr. Kim Dwyer is a clinical psychologist, author, and business consultant. She empowers mental health providers to launch, grow, and redefine their businesses, supports people with mindfulness-based approaches to wellness and everyday living, and writes children's books with a focus on connection, literacy, and emotional regula…
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About Today's Guest: Patrick Casale is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health and Addictions Therapist in Asheville, NC.. He is the owner of All Things Private Practice and Resilient Mind Counseling. Patrick works as a Private Practice Coach and Strategist and is also a Group Practice Owner, Motivational Speaker, Retreat Planner, and Podcast Host. He ha…
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About Today's Guest: From Christie: "I'm Christie Cotcher (Chris-tie Cot-cher), she/her, a Professionals' Self-Care Coach, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and Owner of Christie Cotcher Coaching and Consulting in the Bay Area of Northern California. My coaching approach has been deeply informed by my undergraduate training in Psychology, my …
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About Today's Guest: Dr. Nicole Vaccaro (AKA Dr. Nicole) is a Licensed mental health therapist turned intuitive career coach. She has spent over a decade as a therapist in a variety of settings: DUI/Drug courts, insurance, private practice, and a local detention center. Dr. Vaccaro has also taught mental health related courses at the University lev…
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About Today's Guest: Megan Malick, MDiv, MFT, CCTP is a private practice therapist in Pennsylvania who works with those struggling/suffering with burnout/compassion fatigue—teachers, nurses, mental health professionals, and students in those fields, grief/spiritual crisis/loss. She is interested in the intersection of psychology and spirituality an…
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About Today's Episode In this episode, Meg talks about how she's been managing the rapid expansion of her private practice & other creative adventures while burning out, and she also explores the ways in which loneliness as a therapist is different from other types of loneliness. Join the Anti-Work Therapist Collective for $25/month: Get in the Col…
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About Today's Guest Rebecca Toner is a Licensed Professional Counselor in CT, a Clinical Director at Beehive Counseling and Wellness in CT, a clinical supervisor, and an EMDRIA-Approved EMDR consultant, continuing education provider, and trainer-in-training. She hosts the Supportive SuperVision Podcast and is passionate about helping clinicians con…
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About Today's Episode In this episode, Meg talks about how much she deeply appreciates every single on of you listening to this show. Join the Anti-Work Therapist Collective for $25/month: Get in the Collective (https://antiwork-therapist-collective.mn.co) Credits, links & other things: Intro & Outro Music: DriftMaster by Shane Ivers - https://www.…
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About Today's Guest Allie Linn (she/her/hers) is a mental health copywriter and former dance/movement therapist. Allie specializes in working as a copywriter for therapists in private practice who work with a variety of different clients. To get in touch with Allie: email: allielinnwrites@gmail.com website: www.allielinnwrites.com Instagram allieli…
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About Today's Guest Aaron tempel is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist, and National Certified Counselor in Annapolis, Maryland. He specializes in working with people struggling with compulsive sexual behaviors, unwanted pornography use, trauma resolution, and men’s issues. Aaron is trained in Attachment F…
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About Today's Episode In this episode, Meg talks about how to handle the guilt of leaving your therapy job, and why it might not actually be as bad as you're making it out to be. Join the Anti-Work Therapist Collective for $25/month: Get in the Collective (https://antiwork-therapist-collective.mn.co) Credits, links & other things: Intro & Outro Mus…
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About Today's Guest Kelley Stevens is a LMFT and business consultant. She teaches therapists how to build successful, cash pay private practices. You can follow along on Instagram @theprivatepractice guide to get simple guides on how to launch your dream practice. Kelley’s email is kelley@theprivatepracticepro.com and her phone number is 310.717.78…
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About Today's Episode In this episode, Meg reflects on the things she learned over 2021, the things she lost to her work life, and the things she wants to bring forward into the new year. Join the Anti-Work Therapist Collective for $25/year: Get in the Collective (https://antiwork-therapist-collective.mn.co) Credits, links & other things: Intro & O…
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About Today's Guest Sarah Leitschuh, an LMFT from Minnesota, supports other therapists in addition to seeing clients in her therapy practice. She works with therapists who find themselves exhausted and overwhelmed trying to balance their therapy practice with the obligations of having a family. Sarah provides support to those therapists looking to …
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About Today's Episode In this episode, Meg talks with Lydia Banton about Lydia's journey through systems that expected her to operate at "super human" level, which ended up wreaking havoc in her personal life and disrupting her ability to do her best work with her clients. About Today's Guest Lydia Baton, LMHC, LAC is a licensed mental health couns…
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About Today's Episode In this episode, Meg talks about the time she learned the hard way about how internalized capitalism is sneaky & pernicious, and how it isn't so easy to eradicate. This discovery brought to you by the time Meg realized she had food poisoning only AFTER a full day of clients, pushing herself to keep being productive, and nearly…
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About Today's Episode In this episode, Meg talks about the Anti-Work Therapist Collective, a space where mental health providers can gather & learn how incorporate antiwork philosophy into their practices & unlearn hustle culture mentality. Get on the list to join the collective for $10/year: Get on the list Credits, links & other things: Intro & O…
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About Today's Episode In this episode, Meg talks with Felicia Keller Boyd about her journey from working as a therapist to moving into coaching other therapists through opening their own businesses. Meg and Felicia explore what it means to be a good vs. bad therapist, and Felicia talks about why she self-identifies as a "bad therapist" and wants ot…
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About Today's Episode In this episode, Meg goes over 7 tips to help beat burnout during holiday surges: Look at your emotions with soft eyes Build end-of-day rituals Delegate tasks! Use scripts to set & maintain boundaries Communicate what your needs look like when it comes to holiday celebrations Demonstrate what healthy boundaries look like by us…
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About Today's Episode In this episode, Meg talks with the co-hosts of the TND Podcast, Sarah and Johanna, about finding our way through the world of mental health without literally losing our health, our happiness, and even our lives. Sarah and Johanna talk about how burnout can lead to some really serious consequences for therapists that go far be…
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About Today's Episode In this episode, Meg goes over some of the big emotions that come with burnout, and explore what these emotions might be trying to tell us about our burnout experience. Meg talks about how it's not super helpful to keep those emotions bottled up/pushed aside, and offers a helpful expressive writing exercise that will give you …
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About Today's Show: In this episode, Meg and Emily Hill, LMSW chat about the inevitability of burnout in the current systems that surround us, as well as Emily's thoughts around ruthlessly taking down systems while practicing kindness toward the people caught within them. Emily explores how she experienced burnout working in CMH due to feeling unse…
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About Today's Show: In this week's episode of Mental Status, Meg sits down with Diana Kelly, LCSW to talk about her experiences as a White Latino Sober Army Veteran who works as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Social Work Educator in Indiana. We chat about Diana's experiences with burnout throughout her career, and she explores how her backgroun…
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About Today's Show: In this week's episode of Mental Status, I sat down with Dr. Desiree Howell to talk all about how she went from scraping by, burnt out & stressed out (even at a job she loved!) to working with purpose and abundance. Dr. Desiree explores how she came to understand the exploitative systems surrounding the mental health field, and …
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About Today's Show: In this week's episode of Mental Status, I sat down with Yulia Golubev, LMHC who speaks about her experiences with burnout as she navigated the ways in which her identities & background intersected with the work she was doing in the field. Yulia explores the impact of being an immigrant to the USA and her experience of providing…
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About Today's Show: In today's slightly-shorter-than-normal episode, Meg goes on a solo exploration of (and semi-rant about) some of the big reasons we as a community of providers may want to consider speaking more openly & honestly about burnout. About Today's Guest: No guest, just Meg ranting about burnout again! Links & things: Intro & Outro Mus…
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About Today's Show: Today’s interview was with Ashley Chambrello, LMFT. In this episode, Ashley shares her burnout story and talks about how her experience of it has evolved over time. We talk about how to manage burnout signs & symptoms on a more regular basis, which includes three levels of self-care (micro, mezzo, macro), as well as professional…
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About Today's Show: Today’s interview was with Susan Roggendorf, a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois and Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Iowa. In our conversation, we talk about how Susan came to realize that she was burnt out, how that affected her mental health, and what she did to aid in her recovery from burnout. We also …
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About Today's Show: Attention brain science nerds, this episode is for you! In this interview, I sit down with Carissa Weber, LPC, aka @thatdarnamygdala, to talk about all of the fascinating (and tbh, kind of terrifying / awe-inspiring) things that happen to our brains and bodies when we're under stress. Carissa talks about how the effects of stres…
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About Today's Show: I had an awesome time sitting down to talk with Matthew Braman, LCSW about his personal journey through burnout and how it has helped shape his work in mental health. In this episode, we talk about balancing the intense work of being a therapist in a community mental health center with the needs & desires of life outside of the …
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What a treat this conversation was. This interview is with the vibrant and vulnerable Kara Bolling. Kara talks about facing burnout and painful growth over the past five years or so, from writing and self-publishing a book for pregnant therapists which came out a month before the pandemic hit, to navigating the opposing desires of “business as usua…
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Y'all this episode hits so close to home for me! I am thrilled to have had the chance to sit and chat with Victoria Rodriguez, PLPC, about burnout among community-based MH professionals, as well as the specific considerations for safety & community care for those working in this type of setting. Victoria shares her research into this specific area …
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Whew. This one is fun. For this episode, I invited my patient and thoughtful fiancé, Nate, onto the show. In it, we talk about how my burnout affected him & his relationship with me, we talk about the vital importance of communicating needs & expectations with each other as a way of mitigating the effects of burnout and pushing forward into the unk…
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In this episode, we explore some of the more common unhelpful thoughts and beliefs that can contribute to burnout in the helping field, which include: The needs of others take priority over my own If I don't do it, nobody will Self care is selfish when so many are in need Setting boundaries with others means I am rude or uncaring Feeling this way m…
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In this episode, we go over the definitions for compassion fatigue (aka vicarious traumatization) and burnout, talk about the differences between the two, and do a brief exploration of how important it is to consider how your identity will influence the way you experience these things. American Institute of Stress: www.stress.org "When Helpers Need…
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Join Meg as she explores how by not taking burnout seriously and believing that only other people experienced burnout, she got burnt the f*ck out... and fast. To apply to be a guest on this show, please fill out this Interviewee Interest form and let me know what you'd like to add to the conversation! To get individualized help finding your way out…
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In this very first episode, Megan talks about her own journey(s) through burnout as an early-career therapist, as well as who this podcast is for and why. Music: DriftMaster by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com IG: @mentalstatuspod Website: mentalstatus.transistor.fm Talk to me: mentalstatuspod [at] gmail.com Disclaimer, y'all: This is a…
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