Mental Health

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Both for counselors and clients involved in mental support, increased levels of physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual stress can make challenges worse. It is fairly common knowledge that anxiety, panic, fear, anger/rage, loss of focus, PTSD, chemical dependency and other forms of addiction, and compulsive behaviors are either created, or made worse, as a response to stress. I believe that depression or depressive episodes are often the back side of anxiety (and over stimulation.) With the physiologic response to stressors/anxieties at least partially shutting down the higher function of the decision making neo-cortex, stress can lead to poor problem solving, reduced abilities to communicate, and increased psycho-pathologies.

If you can see the role stress plays in relationship to increased mental health challenges, then the contrary, the practice of stress management, can lead to reduced demonstrations of symptoms. Forms of stress management, biofeedback, “desensitization,” “mindfulness,” and other anxiety reducing practices (like yoga, meditation, diet, exercise, etc) can prove very therapeutic in helping to control the causes of anxiety/stress related symptoms. Beyond symptom control, for the motivated client, I feel that using these techniques until mastered and then regularly, and preventively, can benefit a person by “empowering” them with body awareness, present living mindfulness, and new skills to control stressed out physiologies.

Empowerment of the individual is the key! Self-awareness and then self-control (of habitually held stress) enables a person to feel better in control of available time and energy and better able to self-minimize, if not eliminate, psychological symptoms and emotional/spiritual pain & conflict. Spending time in a “positive” way, in the present moment, leads to reduced fear and anxiety. This new self-control can often lead to reduced needs for psycho-active medications, alcohol, or street drugs.

Stress management, biofeedback, other behavioral techniques, and other stress reducing practices are not difficult to learn, but finding the time and motivation to use these effective techniques often requires support and counsel.

For therapists, counselors, teachers, and concerned family members, these same techniques are essential in minimizing the potential for “burn-out,” “over-load,” and reduction in the ability to care for your client, student, or family member. To be a positive role model by regularly practicing stress management, seems an obvious self-care strategy that serves all parties in therapeutic relationships.

I may be “preaching to the choir” but even the obvious needs to be restated. Basic stress management is a necessary element to psycho-therapy. The extra element of simple biofeedback practices is a beneficial feature offering personal awareness that leads to better levels of self-control.

Are you thinking about starting your own mental health practice? Maybe you are newly licensed, or have worked for other institutions and groups for awhile. From my own experience I can attest that owning your own practice is a wonderful adventure that gives you professional and personal rewards far beyond working for others to earn a pay check. But starting a practice is not for everyone. Starting up can take a good deal of effort and faith in yourself and your skills, both as a mental health professional and as a business person. Here is a list of questions to ask yourself before embarking on starting your own private practice.

1. Am I “business minded”? Do I look at my work as a service I provide for a fee? If you answer “no” to these questions, you are not ready to start your own practice. A private practice is a business that exists to earn a profit. You are a highly skilled therapist and the service you offer is very necessary and needed by many, many people. However, at the end of the day you are providing a service for a fee like a lawyer, an accountant, or financial planner. To be successful, you will need to think as a therapist AND as a business person.

2. Am I comfortable wearing many hats and multi-tasking? Can I do my clinical work and focus on business demands at the same time? To run a successful practice you will need to do two things: 1) spend time building and running your business and 2) seeing clients in your office.

3. Do I like to be my own boss and in control of how I spend my time? Am I a self starter? Owning your own practice can be very liberating in how you spend your time. You can work on your schedule and create a work/family balance that you might not otherwise be able to achieve working for somebody else. You do, however, need to be self-motivated and a self-starter because no one is going to hold you accountable to be at work, or to seeing a certain number of clients a week.

4. What is my comfort level with risk? Starting your own practice means you are in charge of how profitable you and your business are at any given time.

5. Can I delegate? Entrepreneurial practice building requires multi-tasking, but does not mean you should schedule your own appointments or do your own bookeeping.

6. Am I comfortable with the concept of marketing? Many mental health professionals have the notion that marketing is “not done,” in our profession. However, smart marketing is not only fair and ethical, it is mandatory to be a successful practice owner.

7. Am I open to learning new ways of thinking, doing and delivering my expertise? Running a small business requires flexibility in thought and action. For example when managed care changes rates, policies or requirements, how will you handle this? As a practice owner you need to be able to change with the business realities that impact your bottom line.

8. Am I open to learning new things and making the occasional mistake? Most of us received no business training in our post-graduate studies. We need to learn business strategies and steps from the ground up. Like learning anything new, we make mistakes. In order to be successful, you must be open to learning, accepting the occasional mistake, learning from it and moving on.