You’ve heard of burnout but what about being bored-out? This is a term I learned yesterday in an ABC news article and I instantly connected with it. Bored-out is a term that refers to being under stimulated and de-energised by your job role which leads to feeling down or depressed. While there’s a lot of […]
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Conferences are a great place for networking and staying up to date with research. They are also a prime time to have your schema patterns fire up. Being surrounded by other therapists at various stages of development can activate feelings of inadequacy and failure. Mixing with many people you don’t know can be challenging, especially if you have social anxiety or memories of not fitting in. As someone who works solo, I find it a lot of people and the noise levels take some getting used to.
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One of the common struggles for therapists who want to develop additional income streams is confusion about what to offer. No one wants to create an offer that doesn’t sell. Here’s what worked for me. I thought about what I liked as well as what I didn’t like about other trainings. For example, I prefer
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When you put marketing out there and it doesn’t convert into clients and customers, it’s super frustrating. You may find yourself thinking:* I’m wasting my time* No one wants this* These people just don’t know what they need* Maybe I should start a new instagram account because I’ve built the wrong audience There’s a common
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Things I’m not doing in 2025 to take my business to the next level (based on strategy coaches have tried to sell me in 2024). * Manifesting. Sounds effortless to think myself to success. But it doesn’t work and also blames people in difficult circumstances for their situation. * Going into debt to pay for
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A lot of therapists I’m talking to say that their Number 1 concern right now is that not enough referrals are coming into their business. This is making them anxious about their income. We can blame the economy or funding decisions changes, but some practices are not having this problem. These practices continue to have
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Three and half years ago I started a free facebook group called Schema Therapy Made Simple. I originally began the group as a safe space to create schema therapy resources and share schema therapy ideas with other therapists during my ISST accreditation. The group (that I had imagined would have 250 Australian members who liked
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Many of you will have watched Baby Reindeer on Netflix and know that the intense stalking portrayed began with an act of kindness. This act of kindness was followed by constant accommodations made for behaviours that fell outside of normal social boundaries. Instead of implementing a boundary, instead of saying no the behaviours were permitted.
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Here’s something I’ve noticed that can rattle a therapist’s confidence. Taking on clients that are handed over from another therapist. It feels different when we take on a client who has seen other therapists before and is choosing to see us, than when we take on a client who is brand new to therapy. It’s
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Do you ever have moments when it feels like a lot of your efforts suddenly reward you? This is what the last month has felt like for me, as I am rewarded for my consistent efforts towards creating empowering training for therapists. It’s been a whirlwind few weeks, with my mini mind Thrive Amplified: Amplify Your
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