How to Find Your Therapy Niche: Generalization vs. Specialization | Therapist THRIVAL Guide: Ep. 3

When do you find yourself in the "therapy flow" (i.e. when the work doesn't feel like work)? In this podcast episode, we are joined by Tamara Statz, LMFT to discuss how to go about finding your niche and if therapists should generalize or specialize.
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The Therapist Thrival Guide is a podcast from Ellie Mental Health. We want to take therapists from just surviving to thriving. This is everything you didn't learn in graduate school! This podcast is hosted by Miranda Barker, MSW LICSW and Dr. Lucas Volini, LMFT. We'll have a different therapist guest for each episode to talk about what they've learned and what they want to teach other therapists. This series will be covering topics like burn-out, client retention, session structure, and balancing professional relationships.
Dr. Lucas Volini, LMFT, has been practicing as a marriage and family therapist for over ten years. He has worked as a couple's therapist, a graduate and undergraduate professor, researcher, author, and now as the Senior Director of Innovation at Ellie Mental Health...But he mostly sees himself as a professional recreational golfer.
Miranda Barker, MSW, LICSW, has been practicing as a therapist for a little over a year. She previously worked as a child protection investigator, adoption social worker, and case manager. She's new to the therapy game and loves soaking up all of the knowledge from the expert therapists in her life. She's currently the Executive Producer at Ellie Mental Health and believes that creativity is an important aspect of mental health care.
Therapist THRIVAL Guide is one of many creative productions from Ellie Mental Health. Ellie is an outpatient mental health clinic that began in St. Paul, Minnesota and has continued to expand to over 20 clinics in Minnesota and a growing number of franchises across the country (we'll be opening over 500 locations in communities nationwide in the near future!!).

[@TristineBarry]

🎉 Thank you!

[@LHemstock]

Thank you guys for doing this work in spreading the lessons you have learned in your careers. as a budding therapist after a decade career in the trades, it's essential to be a fly on the wall in these conversations. Hopefully going to specialize with clients that depressive disorders or anxiety disorders. but that may change as I have a long road ahead of me.

[@TherapistThrivalguide]

Thanks! We're always posting new episodes, so be sure to check back!

[@KerryPotts-ff8tj]

How sad that the opportunity to share about self was ignored by the ass as he decided to minimize the host and put his friend on a pedestal. Lost me right form the start.

[@mirandabarker]

Sorry to hear that! It's just Lucas' sense of humor. :) Hope you'll try to podcast again as we always posting new episodes and having revolving co-hosts.

[@jess3297]

Read a fkn book? Really? Talk about a HUGE EGO with this guest. Could not finish listening to it and will not give the podcast a try anymore. Disappointed

[@TherapistThrivalguide]

Sorry to hear that you felt that way!