[Quick Tip] Meaningful Parent Coaching & Collaboration...But With Boundaries
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Why do therapists often feel emotionally exhausted and burnt out?
One of the biggest issues I see uh in our field and with therapists is that we take on so much emotional I don't know if I want to say the word baggage, but we we take on the feelings of all of these other people and our job takes a lot from us. And then we sit around going, oh, I wonder why SLPs are burnt out. It's like because we are seeing a million kids a week and a million families a week, and we're doing so much for so many people. And we have to obviously make sure we're still doing things for ourselves, but we often put the needs of other people ahead of our own. Which makes it really hard. Okay. So today I wanted to talk about how you can be an incredible parent coach, how you can help collaborate and consult with your your clients' teams while also having boundaries in place so that you stay the full cut person that you need to be to do your job best and to live your life to the fullest.
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This is something I hear so much from therapists. It's just that they get so emotionally wrapped into the work. that it becomes so much and it's sometimes at the end of the day you go home and you just feel like you're like sitting in everyone else's problems. And it's kind of crazy when you think about it because we are here to support parents. We're here to love on their kids and give them as much as we possibly can. But a lot of times with therapists, that means we are taking from ourselves to give to other people. And that's why I think having boundaries in private practice is so, so important. So I just wanted to share some of the things that have worked really well for me and our clinic over the years and things that I would highly recommend implementing.
Okay. I think you really have to know your boundaries, right? You have to know that People treat you the way you let them treat you. I don't know. There's a saying on that. I don't think that's it word for word. But If the A parent emails you At nine PM And you email them back at nine PM. And then ten ten nine pm emails later. You're like, I'm gonna set a boundary. I'm not gonna email them back at nine o'clock. And then you don't email them to the next business day. Then the parents like I didn't hear back from you in time. I Whose fault is that, right? Like we have set up the parent to think that we are going to email back at nine o'clock at night. Okay. So w people will treat us how we teach them. I think that's the phrase.
So if you don't want families emailing you at nine, ten, eleven PM Don't email 'em back, okay? So something I'll do because I do enjoy doing work either after hours or early morning just because I have kids and sometimes it's easier. Did you know that in a lot of email programs, and I use Gmail, so it's I d I can't like speak for everyone, you can schedule your email.
How can setting email response boundaries protect therapist’s personal time?
Okay, so if an email comes in And it's six o'clock, but you only work till five and you want to or maybe you only see kids till five, but you Are you doing administrative work after you see kids? Okay, you can write back to that email and you could schedule it to send the next morning at eight. And this is something I do. All the time. Because Sometimes it's parents writing about scheduling or billing. And I'm like, I don't want them thinking that we are available at 10 PM because like I happen to be in the inbox instead of one of our admin assistants, right? So I don't want them thinking like, oh, well, they must be available at all hours. So I'm gonna like if a parent emails and is making a request for early the next morning and it's already late after hours, right?
We can still respond, but we could just schedule it to send to get to them in the morning. So I think that doing things like that makes a big difference. Another thing is There are some families we can get in the habit of texting with. And I'm not saying that's a bad thing.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Why do therapists often feel emotionally exhausted and burnt out?
0:00–3:35
2
How can setting email response boundaries protect therapist’s personal time?
3:35–6:30
3
What are the pros and cons of texting families for quick communication?
6:30–9:40
4
How does using a shared scheduling email streamline parent‑therapist communication?
9:40–11:55
Speakers
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