As a helping professional, your heart and mind are your most valuable tools and used everyday to provide your clients with the compassion and guidance they need to move forward. This can be draining and lead to your own deterioration without the proper self care, causing you to burnout. Without addressing this head on there is potential for serious risks to you and your clients.
We will work with you to enhance the skills you already know, and maybe add a few more to your toolbox. You can overcome the barriers you have to achieving a healthy work-life balance necessary for your career.
You are irreplaceable in your work, and definitely to your clients, so it’s time to put your needs first. Click here to schedule a free 15 minute consultation with one of our clinicians and get started today
Some common symptoms and signs of burnout include:
- Lack of compassion
- Becoming more flexible with your ethics
- Lack of confidence in your work
- Irritability
- Distractibility, unable to listen
- Self doubt and negative self-talk
- No longer feeling effective or impactful
- Crying frequently or easily
- Problems sleeping
- Lack of goals in your work
- Decreased interest in your work or personal life
- Poor change in appetite
- No longer taking part in healthy hygiene or habits
- Taking part in risky or unhealthy behaviors
- Detachment and withdrawal from clients, colleagues, friends or family
- Feeling bored, purposeless, unmotivated, or disconnected
