Compassion.
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For therapists, group practices, and hospital programs ready to do the work without losing themselves in it.
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If you’ve been canceling on your friends to recover from your clients. If you opened a group practice and somehow have less time, not more. If you’re wondering whether you have to leave the field to feel like a person again — you’re in the right place. Nothing is wrong with you. Something is wrong with how we were taught to do this.
Find out which zone you’re in.
A printable self-assessment based on the Growth Zone Model. By the end, you’ll know where you are on the map — Comfort, Fear, Learning, or Growth — and the first kind move that gets you unstuck.
- One honest question per zone — no journaling required
- A clear picture of where you’re stuck right now
- One single, kind next step — not a 30-day plan
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Rebecca Bray, LPC-MHSP · Founder, The Tired Therapist
Hi, I’m Rebecca.
In 2020 I stepped across a socially-distanced graduation stage with a diploma in hand and a mind that felt like it was free-falling. I was walking right into a system that expected me to stay grounded while the world was on fire. My professors had lectured for hours on “self-care,” but they didn’t mention the weight of a windowless office or the numbness that comes with a night-shift intake.
I did the hobbies. I took the walks. The weight on my chest remained. From the high-pressure units of psychiatric hospitals to the “heads in beds” metrics of an IOP, I’ve been the therapist on the other side of a Zoom screen trying to hold space for a child living in a hotel. I’ve lived through the shame of not knowing enough and the flight response that led me to flee jobs and state lines just to find a lifeboat.
I built the Growth Zone Model — Comfort, Fear, Learning, Growth — to map that journey back. Today I speak, write, and consult with therapists, group practices, and hospital programs — especially those launching virtual adolescent IOP programs — so the clinical work can be grounded in evidence-based modalities and decorated with our own authentic voices.
How I can help
Three ways to work together — whether you’re a clinician, a program, or a conference.
Speaking
Keynotes and workshops on the Growth Zone Model, clinical burnout, and bringing your authentic voice into the therapy room. Signature talk: “Doing It Scared.”
Program Consulting
I help group therapy practices and hospital programs — especially those launching virtual adolescent IOP programs — design structures that work clinically and keep the people running them whole.
For Tired Therapists
Resources, the Growth Zone Audit, and the framework that maps the journey back to the work you love — without burning down the life around it.
Start with the audit.
The rest can wait.
15 minutes. Honest prompts. One kind next step.
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