The Garden

Being a helping professional in the mental health industry can be a lonely existence. Sometimes we are the only mental health clinician in our agency, building, campus. Sometimes we are in a private practice office. Sometimes we work from home offices. And yet the work we do is challenging, emotional, subtle, intellectual, and strategic…and thus can benefit from a community of support. All clinicians can benefit from idea generation, validation, encouragement, and action choices that come from a community of like minded professionals. Oddly, our industry gives and expects less supervision as we grow in our profession. Yet our ethical risks do not decrease. We need support continuously to do our best work.

Since many of us don't have this community built in, we need to create it. They say it takes a village to build something, but what is a village but a bunch of stagnant buildings? We prefer to think of our careers as a GARDEN that is constantly growing. Grow yours here.