Addressing the Mental-Emotional Concerns With Your Patients (Audio): Interview with Christina Bjorndal

Hello everyone!! Welcome to another episode of the profitable practice podcast. I brought on a repeat offender today it's Christina Bjorndal as she is my go-to person when it comes to dealing with mental-emotional health issues with patients.

I think we all know that every new patient has some sort of emotional issue, regardless of how many physical complaints they list on their intake form. When you witness it, wanting to open those boxes can be really scary, and kind of daunting, especially if you're more new into your practice... but going there is really what will solidify your therapeutic relationship.

Really, it is a fundamental piece of figuring out what that individual emotional item is for that particular patient. The superficial stuff, a lot of us can understand and we always want to create solutions for those first. But to make the treatment really stick, we also need to identify what the mental blockages are and what the emotional blockages are of that the person in front of us.

This doesn't mean you need to become a counselor, but it does mean you at least need to help the person connect the dots and just allow for the therapeutic space to be available to just listen to the person.

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Questions I Asked Dr. Chris:

1. What are those initial steps that need to be taken when discussing the mental-emotional story and why it is so important?
2. How do you approach the mental-emotional discussion with your patients?
3. Why is it so important for us to do our own mental-emotional work ourselves?
4. Do you ever discuss your own personal story with your patients?
5. Why this is so important for all practitioners to implement into their businesses?

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

1. Guidance on how to manage your patients' mental health
2. Importance of addressing every patients' mental health concerns and histories
3. Why is it important for all practitioners to address their own mental health blockages too, to become a better practitioner