Intentional Therapist: Putting You In Your Schedule
Self-care shouldn’t be another task on your to-do list! This is the show that helps you as a busy and dedicated female mental health therapist to redefine your approach to self-care. Because we need so much more than bubble baths and breathing exercises!
Hosted by Dr. Karen Dyck and Dr. Melissa Tiessen, clinical psychologists, founders of Intentional Therapist, and self-care advocates, our mission is to help you build a life where you thrive right alongside your clients, without guilt and without burning out. Join us as we explore practical strategies grounded in our 4 C’s model – Connection, Compassion, Courage, and Creativity – to help you create more space for yourself while continuing to support your clients.
Whether you work in a solo private practice, within a large organization, are a new grad, or are nearing retirement, this show has something for you. Tune in for short but valuable episodes filled with relatable and insightful new perspectives, actionable ‘self-care experiments’, and the encouragement and permission you need to put more of you back in your schedule and create a life from which you don’t need to escape.
To learn more about Intentional Therapist and our 4 C’s model of self-care, visit us at: www.intentionaltherapist.ca
[Please note: This podcast was previously called Thrivival 101, and you can continue to find our original interview episodes in this podcast feed.]
Intentional Therapist: Putting You In Your Schedule
Latest Episodes
E36: REPLAY - Treat your time like diamonds, not like sand: How to break free from toxic time messages
While we give ourselves permission for a break over the summer months (and we hope you are doing the same!), we thought it was a great time to revisit this early podcast episode. How we think about time really is the foundation for buildi...
E35: Time for a summer self-care check-In
How often have you actually taken the time to think about and plan your self-care? If you’re like most therapists this likely hasn’t been a regularly occurring event and, in fact, may have never even crossed your mind. Yet doing thi...
E34: The Power of Discernment, Bonus Episode – Hidden leadership beliefs, or, What are you modelling about self-care, intentionally or not?
Leaders often shape the culture of self-care in their workplaces — whether intentionally or not. And sometimes the most compassionate, competent clinicians are also the ones unintentionally modelling overwork, over-responsibility, and depletion...
E33: The Power of Discernment, Part 4 – It’s not you, it’s the job, or, How to know when a genuinely unhealthy environment is the real problem
What if the stress you’re carrying at work isn’t a sign of something you are doing wrong, but a sign that something around you isn’t healthy? Many therapists are quick to assume burnout, frustration, or dread must be a personal failing:&n...
E32: The Power of Discernment, Part 3.2 – Seasonal capacity misalignment and the importance of values and value domains for sustaining ourselves in the long term
Have you ever had a point in your career where it felt as though something shifted for you, and not in a good sense? Maybe it was a general sense of feeling more drained or perhaps noticing a shift in your ability to keep up with the myri...
