Stephanie Jones on the Self-Care Trap: It’s Not You, It’s the System Making You Sick

<p>One of Stephanie's first clients was a fifteen year old who had just picked up a stack of legal charges. It was her first week out of grad school, and nobody had finished training her. She figured it out, but there were consequences.</p><p></p><p>Twenty years later she is a licensed clinical social worker and a clinical consultant, and when people ask her who her client is, her answer is unexpected: her client isn't a person, it's a system.</p><p></p><p>Which sounds abstract right up until someone hands you a bubble bath and calls it a solution to what is happening day after day, month after month.</p><p></p><p>We talk about what happens when a group practice scales and starts to feel like profit first instead of team, why an outside consultant gets heard saying the same things staff have been saying for years, what a trauma-informed workplace looks like in actual policy rather than in a values statement, and the thing Stephanie calls a trap that almost every exhausted professional has been told will help.<br /><br />Chapters<br />00:00 Meet Stephanie Jones, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Clinical Consultant<br />01:34 She Thought She Would Be a Lawyer: How She Found Social Work Instead<br />02:44 First Job Out of Undergrad: Inside a Residential Group Home for At-Risk Youth<br />05:23 The Supervisor Who Changed Everything and the Gift of Being Told You Are Doing Fine<br />06:33 What High Acuity Means, and Why New Social Workers Get the Hardest Cases<br />09:05 Why an Outside Consultant Gets Heard When the Staff Never Did<br />11:36 When a Group Practice Scales: How Profit First Replaces Team<br />13:57 My Client Isn't a Person, It's a System<br />17:12 Trauma-Informed Workplace Design<br />18:30 Secondary Trauma, Transparency, and Water Cooler Anxiety<br />21:11 Layoffs, Moral Injury, and Why Baseline Anxiety Is Everywhere Now<br />24:06 Maslow at Work: Why Collaboration Is What Makes People Stay<br />28:06 How Practice Owners Rebuild the Hierarchy They Left<br />31:23 Staying in Your Values and Still Making Money<br />37:54 The Self-Care Trap: What New Social Workers Are Never Told<br /><br /><b>About Stephanie</b></p><p>Stephanie Jones is a licensed clinical social worker and clinical consultant with more than 20 years of micro and macro social work experience, helping agencies and group practices build trauma-informed workplaces.</p><p><br /><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://resilientlifeconsulting.com" target="_blank">Website<