Teachers and Educating Professionals

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes..."

- Carl Jung

Counselling to meet the unique mental health needs of educating professionals.

Teachers shape the minds and futures of our students, and their passion for their profession is driven by the value of learning and having positive impacts on students’ lives. However, they often face a wide range of challenges, including managing large class sizes, dealing with challenging students, and meeting high expectations from parents, administrators and society.

These challenges can lead to stress, burnout, and other mental health issues. Therefore, support for teachers is essential to help them cope with the demands of their job, prevent burnout, and maintain their mental and emotional well-being.

Teachers offer everything to their students:

They model healthy behavior, and foster learning and engagement.
Teachers help students develop critical thinking, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills that are essential for success in school and beyond.
Teachers provide students with knowledge, skills, and tools that are essential for their academic and personal growth.
Provide their students with uncompromised value and guidance in their early developmental years.

Teachers give their unpaid time, efforts, empathy, long working hours, late nights at school & at home committed to optimizing their students learning. Their stress arises from a variety of sources that contribute to significant negative mental health effects, often resulting in sick time and disability leaves.

Some of these predispositions and contributing factors include:

Personality characteristics that include “people pleasers” and “high achievers”, often holding unrealistic standards for themselves.
Job characteristics and demands inherent with the teaching role, including learning and teaching the curriculum, navigating multiple parties and wearing many “hats” .
Stress associated with challenging classroom dynamics and lack of administrative and organizational support.
Workplace culture that leads to interpersonal conflict and contribute to stress response.
Consistent and overwhelming job-related tasks and demands that take up excessive time and emotional resources.
Limitations of resources that can leave teachers feeling restricted in their autonomy, training and decision-making process.
Interpersonal difficulties in the academic setting (students, parents, administration).
Contributing stressors from personal domains of life, including with family and friends.

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Support for teachers and educators

An unavoidable truth is that teachers are extremely burned out, stressed, and have a high turn over rate. Stress, overwhelm, anxiety and depression experienced by teachers can result in negative effects in both the professional and personal domain.

Teaching is a challenge that requires passion and dedication. This can lead to high levels of stress & anxiety, as teachers invest their physical, emotional, and intellectual energy into their work.

Teachers have the right to access quality, evidence based mental health support so that they can best show up for themselves, their families, and their students.

When using the right support, tools, and guidance, teachers can be better equipped to have more fulfilling careers & restore balance to their lives.

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