The Thriving Therapist: Sustainable Self-Care to Prevent Burnout and Enhance Well-Being

The Thriving Therapist provides an integrative, holistic, and developmentally sensitive path to assist therapists in assessing their unique needs and proactively structuring sustainable self-care practices, in alignment with their values.

Self-care shouldn't feel like a burden. Professional self-care can be enjoyable, personally meaningful, and sustainably integrated into mental health practitioners' lives.

Included in this book are diverse and vital resources that help practitioners:

• Go beyond one-off activities to create a self-caring lifestyle;
• Strengthen the guiding values by which they live and work, in order to prevent burnout and embody wellness;
• Cultivate mindful awareness of their needs both personal and professional, with special attention to the alignment of the person-practitioner-work environment;
• Build powerful inner resources such as gratitude, self-compassion, forgiveness, and humor to soothe in response to threats and bounce back from daily challenges;
• Implement and sustain healthy lifestyle habits that transform "simply getting by" into more easeful and meaningful living, including neurophysiological supports, meditation and subtle energy practices, mindful media consumption, and community-building.

Author: Matthew A. Hersh
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Published: 07/26/2022
Pages: 557
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 8.95h x 6.04w x 1.22d
ISBN13: 9781433837845
ISBN10: 1433837846
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Psychotherapy | Counseling
- Psychology | Clinical Psychology
- Psychology | Practice Management

About the Author
Matt Hersh, PhD, is a practicing clinical psychologist in the Boston area with over twenty years of clinical experience. He has maintained a full-time private practice for the past decade. Dr. Hersh works with teens and adults who struggle with anxiety disorders, executive function deficits, relational conflicts, and stress-based difficulties. In addition to being a psychotherapist, Dr. Hersh holds a consultant affiliation as a mindfulness teacher with Harvard University's Center for Wellness and Health Promotion; he is a certified Koru Mindfulness teacher and a diplomate of Comprehensive Energy Psychology. He is founder of The Thriving Therapist, an online resource for mental health professionals to prevent burnout and cultivate enduring self-care and well-being. For more, visit TheThrivingTherapist.org.