Extension
For Therapists
The Practitioner Who Needs Practice
You know this work better than anyone. That is exactly why you need a charter.
For the practitioner who gives the most rigorous version of this work to clients and has not yet turned the same rigor toward themselves.
The Name It First Experience
Therapists enter a field that demands the clearest possible sense of professional self — and then rarely get the structured space to build one. The training, the supervision, the case load, and the invisible weight of vicarious exposure accumulate over years. This extension creates the space that supervision rarely provides: a structured examination of who you are as a practitioner, what you stand for, what you will not compromise, and what a sustainable professional life looks like from here. You produce The Therapists Identity Charter — a practitioner document built on your terms.
You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.
Sample questions
- What drew you to this work — the original reason, before the caseload and the system?
- What do you love about being a therapist that you'd name if you weren't being modest?
- What does the work cost you that you rarely have space to name?
Research basis
Charles Figley's foundational research on compassion fatigue establishes that helping professionals absorb secondary trauma through the empathic engagement that defines their work — and that without deliberate identity maintenance, this absorption is cumulative and career-limiting. Bessel van der Kolk's trauma-informed care research is relevant to the practitioner dimension: therapists are themselves affected by the material they hold. Maslach and Leiter's burnout research documents that therapists face all six burnout dimensions at elevated rates, with emotional exhaustion and depersonalization being the leading departure drivers. Professional Identity Formation frameworks (Cruess, Cruess, Steinert) are directly applicable to clinical training and post-licensure practitioner development. Jeffrey Kottler's research on the therapist's inner life documents the specific identity pressures unique to the profession. Skovholt and Jennings's master therapist research identifies the professional identity characteristics that distinguish sustainable from depleted practitioners.
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The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.
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We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
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Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
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Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.
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Every question. Every scenario, every angle.
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