How to Navigate Shifts in the Mental Health Field and Your Career Path: An interview with Dr. Melvin Varghese

The Modern Therapist's Survival Guide with Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy

How to Navigate Shifts in the Mental Health Field and Your Career Path: An interview with Dr. Melvin Varghese

Curt and Katie interview Dr. Melvin Varghese about how he’s navigated his career path. We look at a life changing event that helped him to get perspective on what is most important to him. We also explore practicalities of prioritizing personal life as an entrepreneur.

Transcripts for this episode will be available at mtsgpodcast.com!

In this podcast episode, we talk about how to prioritize your personal life while having a successful career

We invited our friend Melvin Varghese back to the podcast to talk about how he is navigating shifts in the profession and his life.

What do therapists get wrong when creating their career?

· Doing too much and not doing things deeply enough

· Shifting too quickly when things get hard

· Failing to look at season of life issues when planning your business

· Having trouble defining success based on what is resonant to oneself

How can therapists prioritize themselves and sustain a therapy career?

· Pace yourself based on your own life story, not a mentor’s or the “shoulds” from the profession

· Be willing to “fail forward”

· Pushing back against “curated authenticity” and look at how to be real, with boundaries

· Aligning career with morals and values

· Focus on “decades over days”

· Sustainable content creation

What are Melvin’s predictions about the future of the profession?

· Authenticity and real conversations will succeed where AI posting will not

· Finding content platforms where effort compounds over time

· Discovery platforms leading to relationship-deepening platforms

· Navigating a lot of tech and insurance companies

· People have less discretionary money, so diversifying your income is valuable

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Modern Therapist’s Survival Guide Creative Credits:

Voice Over by DW McCann https://www.facebook.com/McCannDW/

Music by Crystal Grooms Mangano https://groomsymusic.com/