Teaching has never been an easy profession but teaching in today's classrooms is more challenging than ever. Administrative demands, increasingly complex student needs, new curriculum, limited resources, ongoing effects of the pandemic, and more, can make the job feel overwhelming. You spend your entire day on the go, with little time to care for your own needs. You’re constantly juggling to prioritize what the most important things are, but there aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done. Maybe you’ve run out of energy and you have nothing left to give.

Therapy cannot fix the broken systems you are working in, but it can provide you with tools and strategies to make things better for you, starting today. Topics I often address with educators include:

• learning about the stress cycle and ways to manage your own stress, daily

• the importance of recognizing your own physical and emotional needs and ways to meet them throughout the work day

• self-compassion as a tool for tending to your own emotions and inner critic, and to combat burnout

• boundaries - how to set and maintain them so you can have a work-life balance and not feel guilty about taking back your personal time

• the importance of rest and play as rejuvenation tools

• navigating the identity challenges around being a helping professional, including people pleasing and perfectionism

• strategies for finding rhythms of rest and play within your work day, including tools you can use in the classroom to co-regulate your students

You’re a teacher, but you’re a human first. I can support you to find ways to center your physical, emotional, and psychological needs - not only so you can be an amazing teacher, but because you matter and are deserving of care.

Individual Counselling Rates: 50 mins | $200