✨ New: The Leaving the Chair Newsletter

Tired of the overwhelm, the over-functioning, and maybe even the therapy chair itself? Leaving the Chair is Dr. Jen's new newsletter for therapists who are ready to stop white-knuckling their careers and start building something that actually feels like theirs.

Sign up here: https://balanced-thunder-281.myflodesk.com/drjenb

Show Notes — Bonus Episode: Dr. Jen on the Emotionally Wealthy Podcast

In this bonus episode, Dr. Jen shares a recent guest appearance on the Emotionally Wealthy podcast with Karen Conlon — licensed psychotherapist, coach, and relationship expert. Karen's show explores how childhood conditioning, emotional patterns, and unexamined beliefs quietly shape the way high-achieving adults show up in love, work, and life.

The conversation between Dr. Jen and Karen hits close to home for many therapists: the quiet burnout that doesn't look dramatic, the way we gaslight ourselves into pushing through, and what it actually means to stop over-functioning and start recovering. It's exactly the kind of question that lives at the heart of Dr. Jen's work — what are we even doing here?

Dr. Jen also shares an update on Leaving the Chair, her community for therapists navigating burnout recovery. The content being built there is focused, practical, and designed to help you reclaim clarity and direction — not another overwhelming program, but exactly what's needed.

What you'll hear in this episode:

• The quieter face of burnout — numbness, resentment, and the slow loss of yourself
• How high achievers and helpers learn to sacrifice themselves and call it dedication
• Why self-gaslighting keeps us stuck, and what burnout recovery actually looks like
• An update on Leaving the Chair and what's being developed for the community

Links:

• 📩 Join the Leaving the Chair Newsletter: https://balanced-thunder-281.myflodesk.com/drjenb
• 🎙️ Emotionally Wealthy with Karen Conlon on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/emotionally-wealthy/id1814244500
• 🎙️ The episode featuring Dr. Jen — The Burnout You Don't Recognize: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-burnout-you-dont-recognize-how-over-functioning/id1814244500?i=1000752849777
• 🌐 Karen Conlon's website: https://karenconlon.com

New episode from Dr. Jen in two weeks!

• Good therapist conditioning can lead to perfectionism and a fear of making mistakes as well as burnout.
• Therapists often feel a strong sense of responsibility for their clients' well-being.
• Cultural expectations and societal norms can reinforce traditional gender roles and influence therapists' perception of themselves and their careers.
• Attachment to the identity of being a therapist can make it difficult to consider alternative career paths.
• Therapists should prioritize their own needs and happiness and not be afraid to make changes.

Links to my stuff: https://linktr.ee/drjenblanchette

In this episode, therapist Susannah Horwitz shares her personal journey of burnout and the pivotal moments that led her to find joy again. She discusses the challenges she faced upon moving to a new location and the pressure she felt to maintain stability for her family.

Susannah reflects on her beliefs around money and how she overcame scarcity mindset to increase her fees and create a more sustainable practice. She also explores the role of rest and play in finding abundance and shares her experience of shifting to offering intensives as a therapeutic approach. Susanna emphasizes the importance of collaboration and connection with other therapists and the need for a collective shift in the field of therapy.

She shares her passion for supporting young parents in STEM who are dealing with chronic illness or health anxiety. Susanna also introduces her coaching program for introverted therapists who struggle with networking and offers insights into somatic regulation as a tool for building relationships and referral bases.

More from Susannah: https://www.susannahhorwitz.com/

More from Jen: https://linktr.ee/drjenblanchette