As an Introvert and Highly Sensitive Person, I understand the struggles of balancing self-care while supporting others. I want to help you reduce overwhelm and honor your Strengths as a Sensitive Therapist so you can feel fulfilled in your work again.
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When you’re rushed between seeing clients and getting home, your nervous system can get easily overstimulated, creating feelings such as anxiety or irritability. This article includes four ways you can approach the transition from therapist self to personal life more intentionally.
Sensitive Therapists often embody one of two archetypes, each has strengths and challenges that make it difficult to move past the overwhelm in order to be able to accomplish daily or longer-term goals.
When you look over your schedule for the next week or even the next few weeks, does everything feel sustainable or do you get an immediate sense of overwhelm and dread? Although it may seem impossible, there are ways to make your days run a bit smoother and to make sure what’s important to you makes it to the top of your priority list.
Instead of burning yourself out each day trying to do everything perfectly, try leaving some fuel in your tank so you have the energy to focus on your self-care routine and personal responsibilities. This practice can help you maintain energy levels over time, get more done and feel more balanced.
Sensitive Therapists need more time to decompress after client sessions and feel overstimulated by the pressure to complete notes. As a result, we procrastinate and feel anxious and overwhelmed. When we create a structured routine that works for our needs and take the pressure off ourselves to be perfect, completing notes can become much more effortless.
As Highly Sensitive People, we are deeply impacted by criticism and failure, therefore we set high (often impossible) expectations for ourselves in an attempt to be perfect. The pursuit of perfectionism is a straight path to stress, overwhelm and exhaustion.
