Episode #809: Private Practice Mental Load with Maggie Holland

You know that feeling when sending one client email, something that should take five minutes, ends up living in your head for days? Today I’m with Maggie Holland, a private practice therapist, CEU trainer, & clinical supervisor in Washington state, who’s done a whole training for us on mental load. We get into why mental load is really the cognitive piece of invisible labor, the remembering & deciding & tracking that happens before you even get to the doing, & why switching between your clinician role & your administrator role is what makes it so draining. Maggie breaks down the difference between systems (your overarching cancellation policy, how you handle consultation requests) & tools (the actual email template you copy & paste), & why a system that works beautifully for someone else might completely fail you. We also talk about what systems can’t do, they can’t give you unlimited capacity or forecast a bad day, & why sometimes the real fix isn’t a better system but simplifying, delegating, or just asking less of yourself.

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