Therapy Reimagined

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

Curt and Katie talk about reimagining therapy, starting a #therapymovement, and pulling together a community to put on a conference

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:

• Curt’s love of Legos and the ensuing overuse of this metaphor to describe using building blocks to be creative
• This conference we’re putting on and why we named it Therapy Reimagined
• The building blocks that are the foundation of therapy, but how we can use them creatively
• The individual differences that have been growing the diversity of the profession
• Sacrificial Helping Syndrome (Katie’s concept about how clinicians can sacrifice their own well-being for the work)
• How the system isn’t working – it relies on us burning out
• Why advocacy is important for our profession
• The irony and sadness about us going into the profession to be a different therapist and then becoming the burned-out therapist
• What it means when we burn out: lack of resources, mental health stigma, poorer outcomes
• Creating an action plan for how you will improve the profession
• Why strong business practices are important for all of us
• Having a big idea and carrying it through
• The importance of diversity and our commitment to have diverse faculty and diverse ideas at Therapy Reimagined 2018
• How important it is to us to hear from you and develop this community around us for the #therapymovement
• A secret message from Katie at the very end

Resources mentioned:

We’ve pulled together resources mentioned in this episode and put together some handy-dandy links.

Katie’s article on Sacrificial Helping Syndrome

Katie’s writing about avoiding Sacrificial Helping Syndrome

Dr. Ben Caldwell with Ben Caldwell Labs

Mixing Modern Therapist live networking events – email us for info: [e-mail]

The conversations happening in Our Facebook Group

first.therapyreimaginedconference.com

Other Relevant Episodes:

Our Therapy Reimagined speakers on the podcast -

The Fight to Save Psychotherapy - Benjamin E. Caldwell

What Therapists Get Wrong - Paul Gilmartin

Social Media and Video Marketing for Therapists - Ernesto Segismundo Jr.

Make Your Paperwork Meaningful - Maelisa Hall

Be the CEO of your SEO - Perry Rosenbloom

Becoming a Group Practice Owner - Maureen Werrbach

Building Hope for the Next Generation of Therapists - Robin Andersen

Crafting Your Authentic Message - Mercedes Samudio

Our event this year:

The Therapy Reimagined Conference in Los Angeles in October 2018!!

Our new consultation services:

The Fifty-Minute Hour

Credits:

Voice Over by DW McCann https://www.facebook.com/McCannDW/

Music by Crystal Grooms Mangano http://www.crystalmangano.com/