Sometimes Therapy Is Awkward

A Collection of Life-Changing Insights for the Modern Clinician

By: Nicole Arzt

Narrated by: Sara Gordon

From Nicole Arzt, licensed marriage and family therapist and founder of Psychotherapy Memes - a global community of more than 80,000 followers - comes a dynamic approach to understanding the therapist career.

Sometimes therapy is awkward. And sometimes it's also painful, messy, and downright confusing. Yet, very few books capture what it's truly like to engage in this work.

In its much-anticipated release, this guide chronicles the strange nuances of working in mental health in the modern world. Sometimes Therapy Is Awkward provides refreshingly candid insight into what it takes to feel more confident and prepared to help others. This guide offers stories, jokes, and action-based solutions for:

• Coping with excruciating insecurities
• Improving clinical skills
• Navigating the workplace
• Setting healthy and effective boundaries
• Managing burnout and compassion fatigue
• Understanding mental health treatment in the modern world

Using introspection and humor, Arzt offers a practical road map for aspiring therapists, new therapists, and any therapist who identifies with feeling afraid or uncomfortable in their work.

©2020 Nicole Arzt (P)2020 Nicole Arzt

So validating and helpful

I’m a new therapist and this book was so reassuring. I definitely recommend it for people who are anywhere in this field. Just starting or not.

Great stories

I enjoy the readers story telling and the insight of the therapist
. I would definitely recommend it to others.

Loved this

I found a lot of the book to be things I already know, but know that if I had read this as intended straight out of graduate school I would have gotten a ton out of it. The therapy world needs more books like this to validate the imposter syndrome in our field

Therapist to therapist…. Thank you!

I appreciate your insight, story, and vulnerability. This book came along my path at the time I needed it most. Replenished my soul and has helped me see the benefit and struggles moving forward in this career.

A must read for new therapists

This book eloquently and artfully blends humor with realism in a deeply moving way. Truly a must read for new therapist.