AS A THERAPIST YOU CAN HARNESS THE GIFTS OF YOUR SENSITIVITY WHEN YOU LEARN HOW TO HONOUR AND NURTURE IT.
As a sensitive therapist, you may be noticing some of these challenges:
Perhaps you are experiencing compassion fatigue or burnout?
Do you notice you feel worn out and stretched more than your peers? Possibly wondering how they can maintain such a large case load?
Perhaps you feel emotionally overloaded by some of your clients; feeling their pain deeply, as if it is yours?
Are you noticing that you need time outside of the session to process and digest what’s happened?
Do you find it harder to have boundaries with your clients; running over time in sessions, letting cancellation or no show fees slide because your empathising with their story?
Do you find it hard to charge your sessions at a price that allows you financial comfort but tend to offer sliding scales or very low cost because you care so much about your struggling clients?
Perhaps you wonder if you can actually sustain an income in this field without feeling so drained?
Maybe you’re hard on yourself, always feeling like you haven’t done enough for your client or struggle when you make mistakes?
Perhaps you’re always looking to learn or do more so you’ll finally feel like a good therapist?
Becoming a Sensitively Strong Therapist
One of our gifts as sensitive therapists is our capacity and wiring for deep empathy however, as therapists with highly attuned nervous systems, if we have looser boundaries, we hit our limits quicker and can run out of steam easily. Whether you’re in training or are in the field a long time, it’s essential for you to understand your unique wiring so that you and your clients can experience and benefit from your sensitive gifts. If you don’t, unfortunately this will most likely be at the cost of you, and even your clients, which I know as a sensitive therapist goes against everything you value!
I’ve been learning, practising, and teaching in the field of mental health for over 16 years now and learning about the high sensitivity trait was a game changer both in how I understood myself and in how I practised as a psychotherapist. Now, both my clients and myself are reaping the benefits of my sensitive gifts. You can too!
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Becoming a Sensitively Strong Therapist
One of our gifts as sensitive therapists is our capacity and wiring for deep empathy however, as therapists with highly attuned nervous systems, if we have looser boundaries, we hit our limits quicker and can run out of steam easily. Whether you’re in training or are in the field a long time, it’s essential for you to understand your unique wiring so that you and your clients can experience and benefit from your sensitive gifts. If you don’t, unfortunately this will most likely be at the cost of you, and even your clients, which I know as a sensitive therapist goes against everything you value!
I’ve been learning, practising, and teaching in the field of mental health for over 16 years now and learning about the high sensitivity trait was a game changer both in how I understood myself and in how I practised as a psychotherapist. Now, both my clients and myself are reaping the benefits of my sensitive gifts. You can too!
MY STORY
How Can I Support Your Sensitive Needs?
Being a sensitive psychotherapist, I combine my personal, professional, and lecturing/teaching experience to educate and support you in becoming a Sensitively Strong Therapist.
Together we can unpack the areas of your sensitive struggles and create a plan for you to start harnessing the gifts of your sensitivity, both in your professional and personal life.
- I’ll help you to understand yourself and your innate wiring to reduce any shame you may hold about your sensitivity.
- I’ll give you guidance and tools on how to reduce compassion fatigue and exhaustion.
- I’ll help you to establish stronger boundaries for your emotional and financial well being.
- I’ll support you in exploring any blocks to establishing a thriving practise that supports your sensitive needs.
If you’d like to know more about how your finely tuned nervous system shows up in your therapeutic work, both the challenges and the strengths, then let’s connect.
CONSULTATION
How Can I Support Your Sensitive Needs?
Being a sensitive psychotherapist, I combine my personal, professional, and lecturing/teaching experience to educate and support you in becoming a Sensitively Strong Therapist.
Together we can unpack the areas of your sensitive struggles and create a plan for you to start harnessing the gifts of your sensitivity, both in your professional and personal life.
- I’ll help you to understand yourself and your innate wiring to reduce any shame you may hold about your sensitivity.
- I’ll give you guidance and tools on how to reduce compassion fatigue and exhaustion.
- I’ll help you to establish stronger boundaries for your emotional and financial well being.
- I’ll support you in exploring any blocks to establishing a thriving practise that supports your sensitive needs.
If you’d like to know more about how your finely tuned nervous system shows up in your therapeutic work, both the challenges and the strengths, then let’s connect.
CONSULTATION
Connection & Support
As a sensitive therapist, you are driven to connect and care for others however, for you to thrive it’s essential that you too are supported and nourished. Research shows us that we excel in positive environments, even more than our colleagues without the high sensitivity trait! Connecting with others who understand you and your way of experiencing the world is one way to do this. Join our Sensitively Strong Community or come along to one of our Sensitively Strong Gatherings and start to flourish, sharing your gifts with everyone in your life.
Connection & Support
As a sensitive therapist, you are driven to connect and care for others however, for you to thrive it’s essential that you too are supported and nourished. Research shows us that we excel in positive environments, even more than our colleagues without the high sensitivity trait! Connecting with others who understand you and your way of experiencing the world is one way to do this. Join our Sensitively Strong Community or come along to one of our Sensitively Strong Gatherings and start to flourish, sharing your gifts with everyone in your life.
Training & Experience
My undergraduate degree in Psychology is from University College Dublin after which I completed a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology at University of Wales, Bangor. Following some years of working in the field of mental health, I trained in Counselling and Psychotherapy at IICP College. I am a fully accredited Psychotherapist (Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) and founded my own private practice 7 years ago.
I completed a Diploma in Therapy Training & Education and have also lectured for trainee and graduate psychotherapists and psychologists in Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University, and IICP College. I was also an Editor while on the Editorial Committee for the Irish Journal of Counselling & Psychotherapy for a number of years. My skill for creating and developing both individualised programmes and the courses within the Sensitively School are based upon my lecturing, facilitating, and editorial experiences, as well as over 15 years working in mental health in both community projects and organisations such as St. John of God.
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Training & Experience
My undergraduate degree in Psychology is from University College Dublin after which I completed a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology at University of Wales, Bangor. Following some years of working in the field of mental health, I trained in Counselling and Psychotherapy at IICP College. I am a fully accredited Psychotherapist (Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) and founded my own private practice 7 years ago.
I completed a Diploma in Therapy Training & Education and have also lectured for trainee and graduate psychotherapists and psychologists in Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University, and IICP College. I was also an Editor while on the Editorial Committee for the Irish Journal of Counselling & Psychotherapy for a number of years. My skill for creating and developing both individualised programmes and the courses within the Sensitively School are based upon my lecturing, facilitating, and editorial experiences, as well as over 15 years working in mental health in both community projects and organisations such as St. John of God.
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