September 14, 2024 Lynn Grodzki, LCSW, MCC & Margaret Wehrenberg PsyD Webinar

Lynn Grodzki, LSWC, MCC & Margaret Wehrenberg, PsyD

Saying Goodbye to the Work You Love: How can therapists approach retirement and shift their professional identity to make space for what comes next?

A huge cohort of therapists, primarily women, are approaching retirement age. Retiring as a psychotherapist is complex, involving considerations that other professions don’t face. The impact of dealing with multiple losses – from the deep attachment of client relationships, to one’s professional identity, and letting go of the ties to peer collegiality – must be addressed in order for a therapist to retire well.

If you are among the 60,000 + therapists moving toward retirement age, you may find yourself wondering: When is the right time to leave my practice? How will I feel about letting it go? What do I leave behind as a legacy of the years I have spent in this work? It is the uniqueness of our career that makes it challenging, compelling, fulfilling and exhausting—and ultimately much harder to let go. This workshop takes therapists through a process of discussion, thinking and planning before illness or another circumstance intervenes to force an unwanted retirement.

In this session you will:

Clarify the significant personal emotional and psychological feelings, worries and obstacles that make it challenging to step away from an intensely value-driven profession
Prepare for the losses of client relationships, professional therapist identity, peer collegiality, and intellectual stimulation that the profession currently provides
Recognize your legacy and impact before retiring. Honor the uniqueness of being a therapist by claiming the skills, talents and gifts that have defined your career
Identify the gains and benefits from a retirement tailored for your situation, to make the most of the next stage of life and move forward.

Learning Objectives:

Specify the significant and unique challenges that retirement poses for you as a therapist.
Determine how your professional identity affects your retirement including how it may affect choices for when and how to leave.
Prepare a ‘retirement identity’ to help ease your transition.
Utilize a guided timeline to assess growth and success to result in a ‘career legacy report’ that recognizes the impact and value of their professional experience.
Assess the steps for closing a practice or resigning from a career position.

Saturday, September 14, 2024

10:00 am - 2:15 pm ET

CE HOURS

4.0

$99.00

Lynn Grodzki, LCSW-C, MCC

Lynn Grodzki, LCSW, MCC, is one of the leading international business coaches for therapists, coaches, healers, and other helping professionals. As a licensed psychotherapist in private practice since 1988, she combined a prior business career to translate business strategies into concepts that are essential for the success of those in private practice. She is a pioneer and thought-leader in the field of practice-building and ethical commerce.

Author of six books, her best-selling Building Your Ideal Private Practice: 2nd Edition (W.W. Norton, 2015) has been considered the “bible” of private practice for two decades. She continues to break new ground with her most recent book, Therapy with a Coaching Edge. It offers a paradigm-changing model for today’s therapists, showing them how a master coach combines the leverage of a coaching approach to the wisdom and goals of psychotherapy.

Lynn is a Master Certified Coach, the highest level of certification that is awarded by the International Coach Federation. She taught new coaches as a faculty member of a large coach-training organization for two decades. Lynn is the past-President of the GWSCSW (Greater Washington Society of Clinical Social Workers), and a former VP of the National Association of Social Workers, Metro Chapter. She has been a popular presenter at therapy conferences, universities, and for PESI, the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium and other venues in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia for over 30 years.

Lynn is a member of the Cosmos Club of Washington DC, nominated as a Distinguished Social Worker. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Social Work Masters Program (MSW, 1988.)

Margaret Wehrenberg, PsyD

Dr. Wehrenberg contributes articles to the award-winning Psychotherapy Networker magazine and she blogs on depression for Psychology Today. Audio and DVD versions of her trainings are available for obtaining CEU’s. She has written 7 books on topics of anxiety and depression published by W.W. Norton, and a workbook, Stress Solutions, published by PESI. The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques and its accompanying workbook, consistent best-sellers, were released in revised editions in 2018. Visit Margaret on Facebook @DrMargaretW or through her website www.margaretwehrenberg.com.

Schedule

10:00 am - 1:15 pm ET

Saying Goodbye to the Work You Love: How can therapists approach retirement and shift their professional identity to make space for what comes next?

Content Level
Higher Thought Institute’s webinars are provided at the intermediate to advanced level of training. Our continuing education program is for all behavioral health professionals including: Counselors, Psychologists, Addiction Professionals, Social Workers, MFT, Psychotherapists and all other professionals working in the behavioral health field.

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