The Boundaried Therapist: Sustaining Yourself in the Counselling Profession

Set boundaries to sustain yourself and your counselling practice

Setting healthy boundaries. It’s a central theme in many counselling sessions, yet something that therapists often struggle to do for themselves. In a profession that is motivated by a desire to help others and relieve suffering, the pressure is always there for therapists to put others’ needs before their own.

For registered psychologist Nicole Perry, the conversation around therapists’ own needs is conspicuously missing. Whe...