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Enmeshment
While community and collective care taking are immensely important, it is vital to allow people to develop into autonomous individuals too. A consequence of enmeshed relationships is that responsibilities for care taking and decision making fall on a small number of people which can result in an authoritarian culture. Eventually, people tasked with “ruling” become exhausted and make poor decisions for the group anyway, their choices becoming more reactive, less considered for collective benefit, and increasingly self serving.
Counselling and the NDIS
Becoming an NDIS provider was something I considered immediately as a way to be able to participate in the system and be able to reach those most in need who wouldn’t have to pay for Counselling. Unfortunately, as a still unregulated profession, unlike Psychology, Counselling is not included as a healthcare service covered by Medicare.
Counselling is a Profession not just a Verb
The ideal scenario would be that Casework and Case Management, Social Work, Counselling, Psychology and of course other disciplines like Nursing, Psychiatry, Education, Early Childhood Education, Primary Healthcare, Aged Care, Allied Health and Disability Services work closer together. This would result in collaborative practices with lots of specialised parts making an integrated whole that provides holistic services to those who are most vulnerable and in need of support, which frankly can be all of us at any one time or another. I can dream!
Burnout
When burnout symptoms occur, it doesn’t mean that you should make dramatic decisions that completely reconfigure your life. Sometimes that is necessary and useful too. Other times, you might only need to shift your perspective, set some boundaries and make some straightforward choices that can have long term effects and make a significant improvement to your life.