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Online Therapy for Therapists

Virtual Therapy for Mental Health Providers

Why It Helps — Therapist-to-therapist work means:

 

  • No over-explaining

  • No hiding behind insight

  • No being “the strong one” all the damn time

  • This isn’t supervision. It’s not coaching.

Contact Laurie

This isn’t supervision. It’s not coaching. It’s real therapy—for your relationships, your stress, your life outside the therapy room.

Therapists are burned out, maxed out and emotionally wrung out.  Not because we are weak or don’t know our shit, but because we are human.  Between the emotional load of clients, pandemic fallout, political chaos, soul sucking paperwork and being on hold with insurance companies for hours, even the most wise and grounded mental health professionals are running on fumes.  Therapy isn’t a luxury for us, it’s maintenance for our mind.   You know the tools. You know the theory. And still, your brain’s running hot, your nervous system’s fried, and your imposter syndrome’s doing pushups in the corner. At South Carolina Counseling, I offer online therapy for mental health professionals who are burned out, overwhelmed, or just plain human.

Why it matters

3 reasons therapists need therapy:

  • #1 “Emotional Sponge Syndrome” (aka Compassion Fatigue)

    Studies show that constant exposure to clients’ trauma and emotional pain can lead to secondary traumatic stress and burnout (Figley, 2002; Bride, 2007). We Therapists absorb so many emotions, they could wring themselves out like a soaked dish sponge by Friday afternoon. Therapy helps them squeeze out the week’s emotions before they grow mildew.

  • #2 “Professional Overthinker’s Paralysis”

    Therapists are trained to analyze thoughts, feelings, and behaviors — including their own — which can lead to rumination and self-doubt (Barnett, 2007; O’Connor, 2001). Therapists can ruminate a parking ticket into an existential crisis. Therapy gives us a chance to stop diagnosing ourselves every time we feel slightly anxious ordering coffee.

  • #3 “The Myth of Being ‘All Figured Out’”

    The imposter phenomenon is common among therapists (Simons & Chabris, 2010), where we feel we’re supposed to be perfectly wise, regulated, and emotionally balanced. Just because you can quote Aaron Beck, Dick Swartz, Marsha Linehan (or any other fan favorites) doesn’t mean you don’t ugly cry watching dog rescue videos. Therapists need therapy to remember they’re humans first, professionals second.

Contact Laurie at SC Counseling Online

Interested in support as a therapist or mental health worker? Laurie can help.

Laurie Boussom online therapist in South Carolina

Laurie Boussom

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LISW-CP, FVHB

Even therapists hit the wall. We cry in our cars, doubt our competence, and occasionally fantasize about bartending. Therapy helps us stay real, not robotic.

Therapists need therapy. Not supervision, not another CEU — real, messy, human therapy. The kind where you can drop the clipboard and just be a damn person again.