Pursuing Happiness as a Therapist: An interview with Stevon Lewis, LMFT

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

Pursuing Happiness as a Therapist: An interview with Stevon Lewis, LMFT

Curt and Katie interview Stevon Lewis, LMFT, about how he makes his career more sustainable. We look at his current philosophies around low effort, alignment, and fun. We also explore how he was able to initially able temper his expectations, work through misaligned paths, and pivot when needed. Finally, we talk about what it looks like behind the scenes to pursue a number of different revenue and marketing streams.

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

In this podcast episode, we talk about how to make a sustainable therapy career

We invited Stevon Lewis back to talk about creating a sustainable career, even if it means pivoting and rebuilding your career or your brand.

How can you build a positive and sustainable career as a therapist?

· It’s important to assess your performance, your level of happiness, etc.

· Don’t be afraid to pivot

· Assess if you are working too hard or are misaligned with the work

· Determine whether your unease is due to lack of skill or misalignment

· Frame assessment based on practical evaluation versus moving to “I’m a failure”

When can you actually make choices that serve you better as a therapist?

· Initial career choices may not be as ideal as one would like

· It is important to temper your expectations to your current situation

· Many therapists start in community mental health and may not be able to choose who we see and what we do

· Be flexible and open to working with less than ideal clients, identify the learning opportunities

· There is a ramp up and a building up of a caseload and career that takes time

· Understand that pivoting is part of the journey because we don’t know what we’re good at or what we’re going to like

How do therapist influencers work effectively?

· There can be a lot of effort behind the scenes

· Delegating and contracting out elements of the work can be helpful

· Efficiency is important to be able to do a bunch of different things to be successful

· Stevon talks about how he does his “low effort” version of social media posting and interaction

· Looking at the minimum effort for maximum result

· Accept doing what you need to do to get the results you would like (not comparing to all others)

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