Episode 11: Burnt the Eff Out! Using Creativity to Heal, featuring TJ Walsh

Stuff You Wish You Learned in Grad School with Jennifer Agee, LCPC

During this episode, TJ Walsh (he/him), LPC NCC CCTP Clini-Coach and I talk very openly and honestly about our experiences of burnout and the tools and rituals we use to get our energy back in balance. This episode is raw, real and offers real solutions.

TJ Walsh is an internationally exhibited artist who has nurtured creativity in heARTs and minds for decades. He regularly writes and speaks about art, culture, faith & mental health and is an expert in human relationships, human creativity, the creative process, fear, and procrastination. TJ owns a group private practice and is on faculty at Eastern University, where he provides supervision for doctoral candidates.

Over the past 20 years, TJ has worked at the colorful intersection of creativity, art, therapy, and education. He is an innovative, out-of-the-box, creative clinician turned coach (Clini-Coach®) and Licensed Professional Counselor who helps others nurture their creative life so that they can be whole heARTed life healers. He currently lives in Philadelphia, PA, with his partner and two sons, where together they share 65 houseplants and a very robust and growing collection of artwork from emerging Philadelphia-based artists.

TOPICS IN THIS EPISODE:

• Paying the price of getting behind the burnout cue ball
• Burnout tells for therapists
• Questioning our worth and value
• Managing your energy to reduce burnout
• Childhood narratives that affect our views of “self-sacrifice”
• Therapy groups, the good, the bad and the ugly when you're burned out
• Using different types of creativity and rituals to support life balance
• How to Etch A Sketch the “should”
• Getting in touch with your playful parts of self to realign

OFFERS & HELPFUL LINKS:

· TJ’s website

· Jennifer Agee coaching page

· Counseling Community Facebook community

· Counseling Community Instagram

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