The Boundaried Therapist
Sustaining Yourself in the Counselling Profession
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Brush Education Inc
Published:15th Jul '24
£22.95
Supplier delay - available to order, but may not be available until after 27th February 2025.
Set boundaries to sustain yourself and your counselling practice
Setting healthy boundaries. It's a central theme in many counselling sessions, yet something that therapists often struggle to do for themselves. In a profession that is motivated by a desire to help others and relieve suffering, the pressure is always there for therapists to put others' needs before their own.
For registered psychologist Nicole Perry, the conversation around therapists' own needs is conspicuously missing. When these needs are not addressed, therapists are left vulnerable to potential career- and life-altering outcomes like burnout and vicarious trauma. It's time to think about boundaries that contemplate the therapist in a wholistic way, addressing not only their professional responsibilities, but their limits, needs, and values.
Taking a somatic and feminist approach, Nicole leads readers down a self-reflective path to practical boundaries that nurture them as people first, therapists second: boundaries that are essential for building and sustaining a long and vibrant career in counselling.
The Boundaried Therapist is the essential reading our field needs! Weaving scholarly knowledge with professional and lived experiences, Nicole Perry expertly guides the reader to learn more about, and reflect on, the foundational practice of boundaries for therapists. New and experienced therapists alike will find this book a very worthwhile read. - Alex Iantaffi, PhD, MS, CST, CST-S, SEP, LMFT; Award-winning Author, Clinical Supervisor and International Speaker
The Boundaried Therapist needs to be a required reading in all mental health graduate programs. Nicole expertly gives us a toolkit for the sustainability of our practice by centering our own need for boundaries so we can continue to show up and support and hold space for others. - Katie Kurtz, MSW, LISW-S; Trauma-Informed Care Subject Matter Expert, Professional Trainer, and Adjunct Professor
Nicole Perry has written a gem of a book. Many therapists experience burnout, but no one talks about how to handle it or set actual boundaries that will help therapists and clients, too. The Boundaried Therapist is engaging, eye opening, deeply transformative--a book for all therapists to read. I wish it was around when I was starting my practice. - Sheila Rubin, LMFT, RDT/BCT; Director of the Center for Healing Shame, Author of Embracing Shame and Healing Shame
ISBN: 9781550599480
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
Weight: 168g
150 pages