Therapy for Therapists with Julie Green

When the Work Feels Both Meaningful and Overwhelming

The Weight of Caring Deeply

You became a therapist because you wanted your work to matter. You wanted to help people, to be a steady presence for others in their pain. And you do care deeply. Most days, your work feels meaningful, even sacred. But other days, it feels like too much. You dread going to work and question whether you’re cut out for this at all.

On those days, you feel anxious before sessions, weighed down by responsibility and by the ache of your clients’ pain. You want to be calm and wise, yet inside you feel anything but. You doubt your abilities, replay your sessions, and wonder if you’re doing enough, or doing anything right.

When Efforting More Isn’t the Answer

Some parts of you try to help by pushing harder: “Do more supervision, take another training, work longer hours.” Others attack: “You’re not good enough. You shouldn’t be a therapist until you’ve sorted yourself out.” It can feel relentless, as though no matter how much you do, it will never be enough.

Sometimes you notice yourself slipping into old patterns, pleasing, fixing, over-giving. You struggle to say no to clients or to end sessions on time. You carry their pain home with you. You want to help so much that it starts to feel like it’s all on your shoulders. And when that happens, resentment and self-criticism both creep in. You can see the ways your own history, the part that needs to be the caring one, the good one, the capable one, keeps playing out in the therapy room.

It’s About the Human Behind the Role

You’ve brought it up in supervision, and that’s helped a little. But you know this isn’t just about skills or techniques. It’s about you, the person behind the therapist. You can feel parts of yourself being pulled in different directions, and you know it’s time to tend to them.

The Hidden Pressure of Being the Helper

Every therapist reaches a point when the work becomes a mirror. For new therapists, it can show up as self-doubt and the constant pressure to get it right. For more experienced clinicians, it can look like quiet fatigue, empathic overload, or the sense that your own presence has dimmed.

No matter where you are in your professional journey, it can be disorienting to realise that you, the helper, need help too. But this doesn’t mean you’re failing. It means you’re human.

The same depth and sensitivity that make you good at this work also make you susceptible to feeling it all so deeply. Therapy for therapists is a space to make sense of that, to explore the parts that drive, pressure, and protect you, and to reconnect with the calm, compassionate Self always there, waiting.

I’m Julie and I’m Here to Support You

I’m a Clinical Psychologist on Brisbane’s Northside, and I help therapists, psychologists, counsellors, and other mental health professionals who want to feel more centred, confident, and connected in their work and in themselves.

My approach is evidence-based, weaving together Internal Family Systems (IFS), spirituality (whatever that means for you), Buddhist wisdom, meditative awareness, somatic practices, and EMDR. Together, we slow down and explore what’s happening inside, the parts of you that strive, pressure, criticise, protect, distance, and over-give, and help you meet them with empathy and compassion.

As you deepen your relationship with yourself, you begin to feel more centred and more at ease. You trust your instincts and intuition, your training, knowledge, and experience, and your natural presence. The work starts to feel lighter and more authentic because it feels less like performing and more like being.

Returning to Yourself and the Heart of the Work

Therapy for therapists isn’t about fixing you or teaching you new techniques. It’s about coming home to your own presence, the wise place that knows how to tune in, connect, and heal.

You deserve the same depth of care you offer others every day. You deserve a space where you can drop the role, take a breath, turn inward, and listen deeply as you reconnect with yourself.

Whether you’re building confidence as a new clinician or seeking renewal after years of practice, this space is here for you.

The Work You Do Matters — So Do You. Reach Out When You’re Ready.