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  Written by Kelsey Someliana-Lauer, Virtual Assistant with Therapy Practice Solutions As a mental health therapist, you’re more than familiar with stress. Chances are, you talk about stress all day long - stress due to work, stress in a marriage, stress from a family situation, stress about identity … the list goes on! You’re also familiar with the best strategies to relieve stress - you’ve told clients about self-care, shared your knowledge about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and taught a healthy coping mechanism or two (or a hundred).  You feel you should be the most prepared to deal with stress - but what happens when you yourself feel the pressure? Mental health practitioners experience stress from multiple sides.  Some types of stress practitioners experience are unique to a helping field, meaning others outside of a health and wellness field may not be experiencing it.  Check out the rest of this blog to see what kind of stress may be impacting you. Compassion Fatigue Compassi

Written by Kelsey Someliana-Lauer, Therapy Practice Solutions VA  While April may be Stress Awareness Month , many small business owners feel stress all year round.  Business owners, compared to other employees, report higher levels of both stress and worry .  Among mental health clinicians specifically, up to 61% of clinicians show signs of burnout - one of which is intense stress (if you want to learn more about burnout, check out our blog about it here ).  With these stats, it’s no wonder why you may be feeling some stress - or a lot of stress - if you’re a mental health clinician running your own private practice. How can mental health professionals who run their own practice cope with stress? Check out three of our top tips below on how to shift from stress away from managing your private practice. Utilize an Electronic Health Record (EHR) An Electronic Health Record, or EHR, is a key way to organize your practice and reduce stress.  An EHR is a software that typically assists wi