Mental Status

About Today's Episode In this episode, Meg talks with Felicia Keller Boyd about her journey from working as a therapist to moving into coaching other therapists through opening their own businesses. Meg and Felicia explore what it means to be a good vs. bad therapist, and Felicia talks about why she self-identifies as a "bad therapist" and wants others to do the same. Join us as we explore mindset...

About Today's Episode In this episode, Meg goes over 7 tips to help beat burnout during holiday surges: Look at your emotions with soft eyes Build end-of-day rituals Delegate tasks! Use scripts to set & maintain boundaries Communicate what your needs look like when it comes to holiday celebrations Demonstrate what healthy boundaries look like by using them for yourself Create an ideal professi...

About Today's Episode In this episode, Meg talks with the co-hosts of the TND Podcast, Sarah and Johanna, about finding our way through the world of mental health without literally losing our health, our happiness, and even our lives. Sarah and Johanna talk about how burnout can lead to some really serious consequences for therapists that go far beyond their capacity to keep working with clients....

About Today's Episode In this episode, Meg goes over some of the big emotions that come with burnout, and explore what these emotions might be trying to tell us about our burnout experience. Meg talks about how it's not super helpful to keep those emotions bottled up/pushed aside, and offers a helpful expressive writing exercise that will give you a chance to write it all out and maybe even figure...

About Today's Show: In this episode, Meg and Emily Hill, LMSW chat about the inevitability of burnout in the current systems that surround us, as well as Emily's thoughts around ruthlessly taking down systems while practicing kindness toward the people caught within them. Emily explores how she experienced burnout working in CMH due to feeling unseen and unheard while being under-resourced within...

About Today's Show: In this week's episode of Mental Status, Meg sits down with Diana Kelly, LCSW to talk about her experiences as a White Latino Sober Army Veteran who works as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Social Work Educator in Indiana. We chat about Diana's experiences with burnout throughout her career, and she explores how her background & identities informed the way she engaged wi...

About Today's Show: In this week's episode of Mental Status, I sat down with Dr. Desiree Howell to talk all about how she went from scraping by, burnt out & stressed out (even at a job she loved!) to working with purpose and abundance. Dr. Desiree explores how she came to understand the exploitative systems surrounding the mental health field, and she talks about her decision to step out of th...

About Today's Show: In this week's episode of Mental Status, I sat down with Yulia Golubev, LMHC who speaks about her experiences with burnout as she navigated the ways in which her identities & background intersected with the work she was doing in the field. Yulia explores the impact of being an immigrant to the USA and her experience of providing therapy in a place & language she did not...

About Today's Show: In today's slightly-shorter-than-normal episode, Meg goes on a solo exploration of (and semi-rant about) some of the big reasons we as a community of providers may want to consider speaking more openly & honestly about burnout. About Today's Guest: No guest, just Meg ranting about burnout again! Links & things: Intro & Outro Music: DriftMaster by Shane Ivers - https...

About Today's Show: Today’s interview was with Ashley Chambrello, LMFT. In this episode, Ashley shares her burnout story and talks about how her experience of it has evolved over time. We talk about how to manage burnout signs & symptoms on a more regular basis, which includes three levels of self-care (micro, mezzo, macro), as well as professional self-care around accepting your own limits, i...

About Today's Show: Today’s interview was with Susan Roggendorf, a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois and Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Iowa. In our conversation, we talk about how Susan came to realize that she was burnt out, how that affected her mental health, and what she did to aid in her recovery from burnout. We also talked about the need to break down the archaic ru...

About Today's Show: Attention brain science nerds, this episode is for you! In this interview, I sit down with Carissa Weber, LPC, aka @thatdarnamygdala, to talk about all of the fascinating (and tbh, kind of terrifying / awe-inspiring) things that happen to our brains and bodies when we're under stress. Carissa talks about how the effects of stress, burnout, and compassion fatigue manifested in h...

About Today's Show: I had an awesome time sitting down to talk with Matthew Braman, LCSW about his personal journey through burnout and how it has helped shape his work in mental health. In this episode, we talk about balancing the intense work of being a therapist in a community mental health center with the needs & desires of life outside of the office. Matthew talks about how he realized he...

What a treat this conversation was. This interview is with the vibrant and vulnerable Kara Bolling. Kara talks about facing burnout and painful growth over the past five years or so, from writing and self-publishing a book for pregnant therapists which came out a month before the pandemic hit, to navigating the opposing desires of “business as usual” and “burn it all down.” We talk about being but...

Y'all this episode hits so close to home for me! I am thrilled to have had the chance to sit and chat with Victoria Rodriguez, PLPC, about burnout among community-based MH professionals, as well as the specific considerations for safety & community care for those working in this type of setting. Victoria shares her research into this specific area of service and talks about ways to manage feel...

Whew. This one is fun. For this episode, I invited my patient and thoughtful fiancé, Nate, onto the show. In it, we talk about how my burnout affected him & his relationship with me, we talk about the vital importance of communicating needs & expectations with each other as a way of mitigating the effects of burnout and pushing forward into the unknown, and he offers some sage advice to pa...

In this episode, we explore some of the more common unhelpful thoughts and beliefs that can contribute to burnout in the helping field, which include: The needs of others take priority over my own If I don't do it, nobody will Self care is selfish when so many are in need Setting boundaries with others means I am rude or uncaring Feeling this way means I'm doing something wrong or I'm not trying h...

In this episode, we go over the definitions for compassion fatigue (aka vicarious traumatization) and burnout, talk about the differences between the two, and do a brief exploration of how important it is to consider how your identity will influence the way you experience these things. American Institute of Stress: www.stress.org "When Helpers Need Help" Webinar Recording: YouTube To apply to be a...

Join Meg as she explores how by not taking burnout seriously and believing that only other people experienced burnout, she got burnt the f*ck out... and fast.   To apply to be a guest on this show, please fill out this Interviewee Interest form and let me know what you'd like to add to the conversation! To get individualized help finding your way out of burnout, schedule a 1-1 burnout coaching ses...

In this very first episode, Megan talks about her own journey(s) through burnout as an early-career therapist, as well as who this podcast is for and why. Music: DriftMaster by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com IG: @ mentalstatuspod Website: mentalstatus.transistor.fm Talk to me: mentalstatuspod [at] gmail.com Disclaimer, y'all : This is a podcast meant for education and entertainment p...