Live Consultation with Jaclyn Fortier

What can counselors do when they are feeling fatigued? Is there a way for counselors to find a balance between helping their patients and helping themselves? How do you know when to turn off the faucet? MEET JACLYN FORTIERJaclyn has clinical experience working with anxiety, family conflict, and domestic violence recovery. She specializes in working with women, adolescents, and families. She works with techniques that are evidence-based and proven to alleviate issues such as relationship conflict, depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress. Jaclyn has extensive experience working in a clinical recovery setting with trauma, addictions, and domestic violence prevention. Jaclyn is the practice owner of Carolina Counseling Wellness Associates, PLLC. Which offers outpatient mental health care and private practice office support for licensed counselors practicing at our Center. Jaclyn offers business consultation services to mental health counselors with coaching for private practice services. Jaclyn also offers clinical supervision for North Carolina associate counselors working towards full licensure and is a qualified supervisor through the NC-BLCMHC. Visit her http://www.carolinacounselingwellness.com/ (website). IN THIS PODCAST:Finding balance between healing others while evading burnout What can you do to break up your day a little more? When do you turn the faucet off? FINDING BALANCE BETWEEN HEALING OTHERS WHILE EVADING BURNOUTI think that’s where it starts: looking at your day and structuring it … when I created my private practice many years ago, I created it around my self-care, so I don’t work Monday nights because that’s my yoga time, and I don’t work Wednesday and Friday because that is my other workout time. (Chris McDonald) By working 12-hour days without a break, non-stop, you will run right into fatigue. That is why structuring your day is important, even if it is a delicate suggestion of when you will take a break and pencil in a cup of tea by yourself in the midst of the deadli