The Grieving Therapist: Caring for Yourself and Your Clients When It Feels Like the End of the World [Large Print 16 Pt Edition] (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781038707482)

The planet is burning, friends and family are falling to cults and QAnon, and we're all living through the collective trauma of a global pandemic. Among therapists and healers, burnout is rampant; hopelessness and despair are, too. In The Grieving Therapist, psychotherapists Larisa Garski, LMFT, and Justine Mastin, LMFT, give voice to the difficulties of therapising in today's world-and offer a grief-informed framework for taking care of yourself as you take care of others. Informed by narrative, internal family systems, fanfic, and trauma-sensitive therapy, Garski and Mastin examine what it means to be a therapist at the end of the world (or what feels like it). They break down 10 realms of grief that are critical to understand and work with today, but likely weren't taught to you in therapy school. Each chapter includes: - Grieving tools that can be adapted for both client and therapist - Tips for supervisors and supervisees - Skills for maintaining healthy outside-the-office relationships - Support for current therapy students (and therapists new to the field) - Advice on how to hold space and work with clients who have the same questions-and are navigating the same issues-as you - Meditations on love, life, death, and connection Garski and Mastin also share helpful guidance around working with clients whose social or political beliefs differ from yours; when therapeutic self-disclosure makes sense; honoring the information that countertransference is trying to give you; and how to sit with (or step away from) triggers in your work. With humor, compassion, irreverence, and more than a little whimsy, The Grieving Therapist shows you how to show up for yourself, and your clients-in your own full humanity, amidst it all.

Author: Justine Mastin,Larisa A. Garski
ISBN-10: 103870748X
ISBN-13: 9781038707482
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
Language: English
Published: 05/14/2024
Pages: 346
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.86d
Large Print