ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Therapist burnout recovery and sustainable career support for psychologists, counsellors, social workers, and mental health professionals across public health, community agencies, and private practice.
I’m Stacey Steele, Registered Psychologist in Alberta and EMDR Consultant. ReLit Practice™ supports therapists navigating burnout, moral injury, trauma work, and systemic strain while strengthening nervous system capacity and long-term professional sustainability.
You deserve a practice that sustains you, not one you need to recover from.
On this channel:
• Therapist burnout recovery
• Moral injury in helping professionals
• Nervous system regulation for clinicians
• Sustainable workload and boundary clarity
• Trauma-informed clinical practice
• Clinical excellence
Each week you’ll find grounded content on burnout recovery, moral injury, practical regulation tools, clinical excellence, sustainable practice design, and and staying in this work without losing yourself!
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Educational content only. Not therapy, supervision, or individualized consultation.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 13 days
Average audio length:
22 minutes
English
United States
11 episodes
since Feb. 17, 2026
episodic
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What We Cover
How worthiness gets tied to caretaking
Five ways fawning shows up in and out of session
A different way of understanding fawning in the body
Differentiating attunement from fusion, somatically and clinically
Why boundaries alone don't fix a structural problem
One question to interrup…
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Nobody warned us about the endings.
Not the dramatic ones. The quiet ones. The client who stops booking after twelve sessions. The transfer you didn't have time to process. The termination that was complete but emotionally unfinished. These endings accumulate over years — with nowhere to go.
In thi…
Episode Summary
In this episode, Stacey Steele draws on her own experience as a psychologist diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, and a growing body of research, to explore the specific intersection of neurodivergence and occupational burnout in helping professionals.
If you are currently experiencing…
In this episode, Stacey Steele, R.Psych., takes on five of the most persistent and clinically consequential myths about burnout in the helping professions and replaces them with what the research actually shows. Drawing on recent empirical literature and honest personal experience, this episode ref…
Most clinicians have been trained to be exquisitely self-aware. Few have been trained in what to do with what they see. In this episode, we look at what the research actually says about therapeutic self, self-awareness, and burnout and why awareness, on its own, doesn't protect you. We distinguish…
You've heard it. You've said it. "You just need better boundaries." But what if the boundary conversation has become part of the problem? In this episode, we explore how self-sacrifice and unrelenting standards schemas, two of the most common patterns in helping professionals , can turn well-meani…
If you’re a clinician providing therapy, how many times today have you used the word “boundaries”? Likely in the context of working with someone in their relationships or helping someone try to get more balance in their life.
Now, in your professional context, what comes up when you think of bound…
If someone asked you to name the core tool of your clinical practice, what would you say? EMDR? CBT? Your favourite assessment measure?
Maybe it's none of the above. And maybe it’s you.
The caring self, who you are in the therapy space, is the primary therapeutic instrument. And like any instrumen…
Thank you for listening! Everything on this podcast is guided by five pillars, recognizing and releasing burnout, repairing and rewiring overfunctioning patterns, restoring rhythm and regulation, redesigning practice for long-term sustainability, and relighting passion so you can stay in the work w…
Rest didn't fix it. That's because burnout in clinical practice is often driven by something different: grief. Grief requires a different kind of repair. In this episode, we go beneath the surface of therapist burnout to explore its intersection with moral injury: the wound that forms when clinicia…
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