Description:

As clinicians, we share many of the same losses, struggles, and grief as our clients-and like our clients, we experience the same yearning for connection, purpose and meaning. We will address: burnout prevention strategies; ethical dangers inherent in professional burn-out, how to evaluate satisfaction in professional practice, ethical balance between your life as a therapist and the demands of providing therapy, how to develop pathways to spiritual centeredness for clients and ourselves, and new ways to enhance and renew professional lives 

Learning Objectives: Participants will:

1. Increase their understanding of the importance of their own life on their professional work—and vice-versa 

2. Learn a variety of self-care strategies 

3. Learn to skillfully utilize their own personal experiences in their work with their clients 

ABOUT THE SPEAKER 

David Treadway, PhD is a marriage and family therapist who has been leading workshops throughout the country for the past 25 years. He is the author of Before It’s Too Late: Working With Substance Abuse in the Family, Dead Reckoning: A Therapist Confronts His Own Grief and Intimacy, Change and Other Therapeutic Mysteries: Stories of Clinicians and Clients. He has appeared on 20/20, Good Morning America, and other national television programs, and has hosted a radio show on family issues for PBS. Dr. Treadway has a private practice in Weston, Massachusetts and currently specializes in couples therapy and workshops that support therapists in their own journeys, both personal and professional