Nikki Howes
Msc Addiction Counselling and Psychology
Integrative counsellor Expert
Nikki Howes Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Addictions, Mental Health, Trauma
- Affiliation
- FDAP
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Boundaries and healing the self
Have you ever felt you were giving too much to others? taking on their problems or allowing them to dump their problems on you? Is it hard for you to say no or tell another person how you are feeling without guilt or shame? These may be signs that your boundaries are fuzzy and could benefit from being worked on. So what are boundaries and how do they help us? How do we start to say no without being afraid of rejection or anger?
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Healing for the healer. Burnout, compassion fatigue and self care.
Giving care to others can be stressful, professional caregivers have to strike the balance between good self care and professional care giving to others. Helping professionals need to ensure that they are robust and emotionally well in order to be able to care for others. This can be challenging in the workplace, they may have demanding case loads, little time to reflect on practise and difficulties with managing a good life/work balance. This makes helping professionals at risk of both burnout out and compassion fatigue. Understanding burnout and compassion fatigue
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