Counsellor Burnout is Real

At the end of 2021 I’d been in private practice for three years and I realised I needed professional help, the kind that I usually gave to others. This was due to a medical trauma I had at the end of 2020, plus other stressors. I’ve had lots of therapy over the years (like a lot of therapists) and understood my own therapy would be an intermittent part of life, but the situation snuck up on me. Just because we are therapists doesn’t mean we can always see the wood for the trees with our own issues!