Clinicians
If you’ve been a wellness worker for any length of time, you’ve probably noticed some common lulls and sticking points in everyday therapy sessions. As mentioned in the “challenges” section on the Home page, general boredom and time constraints can present often. Not only can Wellness Trailhead workshops offer a more natural time frame, we can liven up the show a bit too!
A lot of therapists say that their clients are experiencing a level of struggle that seems more complicated and harder to address than in previous decades. Furthermore, the artificial time and space constraints of a typical therapy session prevent creative approaches that would be invaluable to clients who are stuck in stubborn patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. We address these sticking points with our workshops, and we can even combine their elements to make custom workshops for you and your clients. And yes, we can teach you (potentially, while you earn CEs!) how to lead these workshops in your own practice, too.
Here’s what some of the formal research says about clinician and client boredom, anxiety and burnout:
This article addresses professional “burnout,” referring to physical and emotional exhaustion resulting from negative self-concept, negative job attitudes, and loss of concern for clients, leading to lack of professional efficacy. Our workshops can help! https://research.ebsco.com/c/udgvh3/viewer/pdf/qw7bex57wz
Psychology and the Bored Patient: In this book, contributors discuss various theories and therapies of boredom for both client and clinician. Our workshops can help! https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9780203727218/psychotherapy-bored-patient-mark-stern?refId=87344579-6f3e-4d5a-8a62-b0596c32d82b&context=ubx
"Exploring Therapist Boredom: An Integrative Review": This Master’s Thesis addresses the antecedents, indicators, measurements, and management of boredom within helping professionals. Our workshops can help! https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/1c61e2ff-c7af-495e-b6b0-52a5c0cdb4ac/content
"What Happens When Therapists Feel Bored or Anxious? A Qualitative Study of Distracting Self-Awareness and Therapists' Management Strategies": This article compares boredom and anxiety differences between novice and experienced counselors. Our workshops are designed for all levels of helping professionals! https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1021499526052
CEU's and Certification
Need CE’s or simply want to broaden your horizons and engage in more diverse conversation? We’re here for that too!
Would you like to join the WT team and teach one of these workshops yourself (potentially, while earning CE’s)?
Client Engagement
As clinicians, we feel it’s our obligation to ourselves and to our clients to add diversity to therapy options and create a more dynamic growing environment whenever possible.
Introducing these workshop curriculums can go a long way toward addressing common clinical challenges AND growing our practices. New curriculums are great tools for teaching and also great tools for reaching out to new clients!
