How Therapists Can Stop Trying to Leave Work at Work: What Jenny Melrose Taught Me
Most of us were trained to leave work at work. In the first Face Value episode, business coach Jenny Melrose and I talked about what it looks like to become yourself inside your business instead, and to move between the parts of your life as one whole person.
Why Your Team Won't Speak Up in Meetings (and How to Change That)
Why clinicians go silent in meetings, why it isn't about you, and the five-step engagement ladder that gets a room talking.
Is It Vicarious Trauma or Burnout? What Leaders of Trauma-Exposed Teams Need to Know
Somewhere in your organization a good clinician is deciding whether to stay. The exit interview will say burnout. Underneath that word is something more specific, and the difference decides what you spend on next.
The Raised Hand in Every Training: Vicarious Resilience vs. Resilience
In almost every training I run, someone finally asks the question they've been sitting on: isn't vicarious resilience just... resilience? It isn't, and the difference is the whole point. One describes how a person adapts. The other describes what can happen to you when you witness someone heal.
What Does Clinician Turnover Actually Cost? A Guide for Trauma-Exposed Organizations
Replacing one clinician costs an estimated half to two times their annual salary, and the bill opens months before the resignation. A leader's guide to the full cost of clinician turnover in trauma-exposed organizations, and what actually reduces it.
Peer Support for Trauma Therapists: Why We Need It and How to Start
Regulation happens in relationship, and that's as true for you as it is for your clients. What peer support actually does for trauma therapists, the barriers that keep us isolated, and the smallest possible first step.
The Equity Gap in Trauma Therapy: Why Peer Support Is a Systems-Level Issue
Consultation, mentorship, a space to be honest about this work: too often treated as something you have to earn. Why peer support access is a structural issue, and a reflection exercise to audit where you stand.
Vicarious Trauma vs. Compassion Fatigue (and Burnout and Secondary Traumatic Stress): What's the Difference?
Four terms, used interchangeably everywhere, describing four different things. What the research actually says about vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, and burnout, and a two-question self-check to tell which one is loudest for you.
What Is Vicarious Resilience? A Guide for Therapists
The same openness that carries your clients' pain into your nervous system carries their healing in too. The research behind vicarious resilience says you're supposed to let it, and there's a way to build it on purpose.
What Is Vicarious Trauma? A Guide for Therapists
Vicarious trauma doesn't kick the door down. It creeps in. This guide covers where the term comes from, the signs across four domains, how it differs from compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, and burnout, and what actually helps. Written by a trauma psychologist who has lived it.
Why It's So Hard for Trauma Therapists to Believe Their Own Growth
You can list everything that's changed in your clinical work this year. You just don't believe any of it yet. That gap between knowing your growth and feeling it was trained into you, and there's a thirty-second practice that closes it.
Stop Building Better Systems And Start Protecting Better Rhythms
You don't need another productivity system. You need to protect the rhythms already keeping you upright. Here's how to build structure that regulates your nervous system instead of squeezing more out of it.
You Finally Have Space, So Why Don't You Feel Better?
You cleared the schedule and took the time off, and somehow you feel worse. If the summer slowdown hasn't brought the relief you expected, it may be because rest exposes what busyness was holding at bay, and because the kind of recovery your nervous system needs is one you can't reach entirely on your own.
The Summer Slowdown Isn’t Causing the Discomfort. It’s Revealing It.
The first cancellations land and instead of relief, you feel unsettled. What if the slowdown isn’t causing discomfort, but revealing what a fast season kept you from feeling? Here’s how to listen to what surfaces, and reconnect with the work that nourishes you.
Your Team Had a Meeting. Did Anyone Actually Get Support?
After something terrible happens at work, most teams get a meeting. They don't always get support, and a lot of us walk out feeling worse without knowing why. Here is what real support actually looks like, and why it can't be built in the ninety minutes after a crisis.