People sometimes ask me, “How can you listen to suffering people all day long?” “Don’t you feel drained and overwhelmed every day?” I smile and usually answer by saying something like, Continue reading
Category: Lessons learned
Wisdom gained from 25-years experience as a mental health professional. The people I serve teach me many lessons about how to live well, relate healthier, and enjoy life more.
Eagerly anticipating enjoying our family & friends
After experiencing a range of challenging and traumatic life experiences, and providing professional counseling services for 15+ years in private practice, I’ve learned some valuable lessons I’d like to share. Moreover, providing tele-therapy counseling services for several years and exclusively for the past 3 weeks during the COVID-19 pandemic, I’m learning some valuable lessons. Despite being under “stay-at-home” orders, we must maintain a schedule and our routines. For example, we need to maintain regular sleep-wake schedules, meals, exercising, taking breaks and socializing. Under the COVID-19 pandemic, we need to find creative, intentional ways of doing these things while adhering to WHO and CDC guidelines.
Self-care is a prerequisite to caring for others
The work of a licensed clinical mental health counselor can be emotionally taxing. Our own self-care limits our ability to care for others. I have been doing the work of a LCMHC for 25+ years, the last 15 in private practice. Continue reading