The Therapist’s Guide to Being Pregnant
A planner, timeline, and guide for therapist parents-to-be
by Kara Bolling, MSW, LCSW-C
Pregnancy is an exciting and stressful time when your body and your business will change. For all you mental health professionals out there who are in private or group practice and who are preparing to start your families, your personal and professional lives are about to change in ways you can't imagine.
Let’s think things through together.
When you’re pregnant + running a small business, you've got more responsibilities: to take better care of yourself (and thereby, your baby) and to do right by your business so that it stays strong throughout your pregnancy and parental leave. When your business is mental health, you've got the added responsibility to thoughtfully guide your clients through a time of change where your personal life will inevitably make it into the room. But don’t stress!
Taking good care of your baby, body, and business is totally doable.
The Therapist’s Guide to Being Pregnant is an interactive guide for psychotherapists, counselors, and mental health professionals in private or group practice who are navigating pregnancy or even just preparing to start a family. Pregnancy and parenthood will impact how you show up for your work and your clients, both now and in the future, in ways you cannot even imagine. This book will give you the information you need and normalize what you’re going through in a fun and light-hearted way.
If thinking and planning helps you breathe easy, this book is for you.
The only book of its kind, The Therapist’s Guide to Being Pregnant breaks down the work of being a pregnant therapist by trimester, with prompts to get your thinking going and checklists to help you feel satisfied when you’re done. There are workbook-style spaces for you to make notes about what you’re thinking and the author gives personal examples to illustrate the material. Pregnant people are centered using gender-neutral language and with an understanding that every family looks different.
You can rest easy knowing you've done your best to prepare yourself and your clients.
Whether you are a pregnant therapist now or possibly-one-day-in-the-future, whether this is your first pregnancy or not your first rodeo — this book will answer the questions you didn’t know you had and successfully prepare you and your clients for this exciting time of change.
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