3. Navigating Your “Trauma Season” and Prevailing Through Hard Days (ft. Kim Knox, LMFT)

Warning: this episode contains discussions of trauma and mentions suicide.This week Karen learned more about the importance of personally screening potential clients ahead of scheduling. While screening is a time-consuming, thankless, and unpaid administrative task, it is also a crucial tool in managing one’s schedule and in actually providing the best information and care to clients.Today we’re talking with Kimberly Knox. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in both Texas and Washington and holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas and a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. She has also completed 200 hour Registered Yoga Training and incorporates yoga into her work with clients. She currently runs her own private practice wellness center in New Braunfels, Texas where she specializes in working with adult individuals and couples from a systems and holistic treatment perspective.With Kim we discuss what it means to have a systemic perspective as a therapist and how she works with trauma with her clients. We talk about what she considered most important when she chose her graduate school program and what it’s been like to build a new client base and business after moving to a new location. We discuss her experiences of feeling alone and isolated in private practice and what it feels like to navigate the really difficult days that can often happen in the mental health field. Resources mentioned: Blink by Malcolm GladwellOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk Hill Country Marriage Workshop: https://hillcountrymarriageworkshop.com/  Thank you so much for listening! To support the show and/or access our bonus content, please consider becoming a Patreon subscriber at https://www.patreon.com/TherapyTeaPodcast!  Follow us on social media: Facebook: Therapy Tea Podcast https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552953196482 Instagram: @therapyteapod https://www.instagram.com/therapyteapod/  Thoughts? Questions? Email us at [email protected]  Disclaimer: All statements made on this podcast by hosts and guests are their individual personal perspectives only and are not necessarily shared by anyone else. The hosts and guests on this podcast are not speaking on behalf of all mental health professionals or the profession as a whole. This podcast is not therapy and does not establish a professional, therapeutic counseling relationship.