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The fastest way to burn out as a therapist is to believe the pressure is your fault. We sit down with our friend Val, a Colorado Springs small business owner building a practice for neurodivergent and marginalized communities, and we get painfully honest about what clinician life looks like right now: the medical model, the no-show hit to income, the endless notes, the supervision hours, and the quiet expectation that you’ll keep saying yes until you collapse.

From there, we shift into what “real self-care” actually means for working clinicians. We talk boundaries that hold up in the real world: naming your peak hours, giving yourself permission to be different, setting response-time expectations with simple email language, and stopping the reflex to apologize for being unavailable. We also explore why tiny changes beat total reinventions for neurodivergent brains, and how community helps us notice when our “normal” is sliding toward burnout.

We go deeper into decolonizing mental health and what it means to unlearn systems that treat people like commodities. If you supervise, lead a team, or you’re a new clinician trying to survive, you’ll leave with language, mindset shifts, and practical ways to protect your energy while staying relational in the work. Subscribe for more honest conversations, share this with a clinician friend who needs it, and leave a review with the boundary you’re practicing next.

A Hero's Welcome Podcast © Maria Laquerre-Diego & Liliana Baylon