The Grieving Therapist: Caring For Yourself And Your Clients When It Feels Like The End Of The World,Used

For readers of No Cure for Being Human and Simple SelfCare for Therapists, a witty and compassionate field guide to the 10 realms of griefand how to navigate them yourself and with clients.How do you practice good therapy when its the end of the world as we know itand no one feels fine?The planet is burning, friends and family are falling to cults and QAnon, and were 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 todays worldand offer a griefinformed framework for taking care of yourself as you take care of others.Informed by narrative, internal family systems, fanfic, and traumasensitive 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 werent 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 outsidetheoffice 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 questionsand are navigating the same issuesas you Meditations on love, life, death, and connectionGarski and Mastin also share helpful guidance around working with clients whose social or political beliefs differ from yours; when therapeutic selfdisclosure 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 clientsin your own full humanity, amidst it all.