Are you a therapist who's grown disillusioned with the therapy profession? Why do you feel so lost with your clients? Are you good enough to be a therapist? What do your clients actually need from you, and how can you best support them? If you feel overwhelmed, insecure, or uncertain about this career, you are not alone.
In For the Love of Therapy, psychotherapists Nicole Arzt, LMFT, and Jeremy Arzt, LMFT, aim to answer the challenging and nuanced questions therapists regularly ask themselves. This heartfelt guide chronicles the good, bad, strange, and beautiful parts of being a mental health professional. Nicole and Jeremy offer compassionate blueprints for therapists to experience more fulfillment and settle into a deeper sense of love within this work. This book introduces the CHAIR framework, an intuitive model that encourages providers to embrace the following core themes:
Consistency: Maintaining a predictable and beneficial sense of stability
Hope: Holding on to and harnessing hope, even in dire situations
Attunement: Accurately interpreting and responding to your client's needs
Impact: Heightening emotion, delivering insight, and facilitating change
Repair: Recognizing mistakes and mending ruptures within the therapeutic relationship
Nicole and Jeremy also provide practical guidance for relevant modern-day concerns, including harnessing perfectionism, managing decision fatigue, strengthening clinical competence, treating professional burnout, and more.