Curt and Katie talk about reimagining therapy, starting a #therapymovement, and pulling together a community to put on a conference

It’s time to reimagine therapy and what it means to be a therapist. To support you as a whole person and a therapist, your hosts, Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy talk about how to approach the role of therapist in the modern age.

In this episode we talk about:

Curt’s love of Legos and the ensuing overuse of this metaphor to describe using building blocks to be creative
This conference we’re putting on and why we named it Therapy Reimagined
The building blocks that are the foundation of therapy, but how we can use them creatively
The individual differences that have been growing the diversity of the profession
Sacrificial Helping Syndrome (Katie’s concept about how clinicians can sacrifice their own well-being for the work)
How the system isn’t working – it relies on us burning out
Why advocacy is important for our profession
The irony and sadness about us going into the profession to be a different therapist and then becoming the burned-out therapist
What it means when we burn out: lack of resources, mental health stigma, poorer outcomes
Creating an action plan for how you will improve the profession
Why strong business practices are important for all of us
Having a big idea and carrying it through
The importance of diversity and our commitment to have diverse faculty and diverse ideas at Therapy Reimagined 2018
How important it is to us to hear from you and develop this community around us for the #therapymovement
A secret message from Katie at the very end