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Are you a disillusioned psychotherapist?
- Steph Turner
- Dec 7, 2024
- 10 min read
Updated: Dec 11, 2024
Are you a disillusioned psychotherapist? Do you long for a different career?
Become a need-responder. Instead of trying to help the individual adjust, you incentivize others to adjust to your client’s vulnerable needs.
Get in on the ground floor and help co-create this amazing alternative to legal services. Help us all resolve more needs to help us improve our overall wellness.
Which do you prefer?
Remain working in a profession you find dissatisfying, hoping somehow things will get better.
OR
Join efforts to co-create a fresh alternative for accountably responding to your needs.
When prompting ChatGPT for the “top reasons counselors can be disillusioned with offering psychotherapy,” it offered these 18 pain points. See how the new professional service of need-response answers each one.
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After each of these items below, see how need-response can be far, far better. Click the right arrow to expand the text.
After each point below, see how need-response can be far, far better. This is where you can join the effort. You are welcomed to respond to this vision, add to it, critique it, and help shape this alternative. Join us in resolving more needs to improve our overall wellness, which the law itself can never do.
According to ChatGPT, “Counselors and psychotherapists can become disillusioned with their profession for various reasons. Here are some common factors.”
“Constantly hearing and processing clients' traumas, struggles, and pain can be emotionally exhausting, leading to compassion fatigue or burnout.”
Need-response improves our capacity to tolerate life’s discomforts.
“Therapists often carry the emotional weight of their clients' issues, which can take a toll on their mental well-being.”
Need-response links your evoked emotions to your affected needs.
“Clients may expect immediate results or see therapy as a ‘quick fix,’ which can lead to frustration when progress is slow or challenges persist.”
Need-response equips clients to manage their own expectations.
“Therapists may feel ineffective or disheartened when clients don’t make progress, resist change, or relapse into harmful behaviors.”
Need-responders enables greater improvements by addressing externalities.
“Managing professional boundaries can be difficult, especially with clients who become overly dependent, cross boundaries, or misinterpret the therapeutic relationship.”
Need-response risks less crossing of personal boundaries.
“Many therapists face challenges with inconsistent income, low reimbursement rates from insurance, or the financial strain of running a private practice.”
Need-response provides you with a steadier flow of income.
“Working within larger systems (e.g., healthcare, education, or social services) can be frustrating due to bureaucracy, limited resources, or systemic failures that hinder client care.”
Need-responders challenges social structures like the healthcare system.
“Despite growing awareness, stigma around mental health can make it harder for clients to fully engage in therapy or for therapists to feel that their work is valued by society.”
Need-response dissolves stigma by addressing external wellness factors.
09 Isolation
“Solo practitioners may experience professional isolation, with limited opportunities to collaborate with or receive support from colleagues.”
Need-response builds social connections with a support team.
“Counselors often face complex ethical challenges, such as balancing confidentiality with legal obligations, which can be stressful and emotionally taxing.”
Need-response risks fewer ethical conundrums.
“In agency or organizational settings, therapists may feel pressured to meet productivity targets or focus on documentation over quality care.”
Need-response automates documentation of wellness improvements.
“Hearing detailed accounts of clients’ traumatic experiences can lead to vicarious trauma, negatively impacting therapists' mental health.”
Need-response equips all to process their emotionally disturbing experiences.
“Therapists who prioritize their clients' needs over their own may neglect their own self-care or professional development, leading to stagnation.”
Need-response provides ample opportunity for personal improvement.
“Working with resistant, aggressive, or highly demanding clients can create a stressful therapeutic environment.”
Need-response filters out unqualified clients.
“Therapists may struggle with societal issues such as systemic inequality, lack of access to mental health resources, or navigating cultural differences with clients.”
Need-response equips all to take on unresponsive social structures.
“Despite the critical nature of their work, therapists may feel undervalued compared to other professions, especially in terms of compensation and societal respect.”
Need-response can unleash your potential to earn the public’s respect.
“The risk of client complaints, licensing board investigations, or legal actions can create a constant undercurrent of anxiety for practitioners.”
Need-response responds more effectively to client complaints.
“The emotional demands of the job can make it hard to ‘leave work at work,’ potentially impacting the therapist’s personal relationships and well-being.”
Need-response lets you balance your personal and professional lives.
ChatGPT adds, “Addressing these challenges often requires therapists to prioritize their self-care, seek supervision or peer support, set boundaries, and occasionally reassess their career path or the populations they serve.” Need-response can do all that and more.
Instead of treating the individual, you treat the power relation. Instead of helping your client seek relief from symptoms, you help them identify unresolved needs prompting those uncomfortable symptoms. Instead of charging them for serving their private health needs, you invite their peers to invest in their public wellness cause.
Does this speak to you? Can you see yourself embracing the opportunity to become a need-responder?
Thank you for your interest. Follow developments by listening to the Need-Response podcast each Wednesday, starting 30 April 2025.
Let’s build this amazing service that can more effectively serve your overlooked needs.
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