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.