09/09/2026
We talk a lot about burnout in the mental health field.
But what if some of what we’ve been calling “burnout” is actually the impact of working in systems that repeatedly ask clinicians to override their own needs, boundaries, and nervous systems?
This is part 1 of a 4 part series on the ways the mental health field can traumatize the clinicians working within it.
Because sometimes the problem isn’t that you weren’t resilient enough.
Sometimes the environment was actually harmful.
Follow along for part 2.