What a team!

I’ve heard it said that if you love your job, you will never work a day in your life.

That’s a wee bit simplistic, perhaps…but that line came to mind on the weekend after a staff meeting at Bergen & Associates Counselling. Several times a year, we gather as a staff…this time Saturday over lunch. We had pitas from Pita Pit and delicious fancy cupcakes from Cakeology. We these decadent treats as we were celebrating Gail’s recent graduation, Nadia’s recent engagement, and Roshonna’s upcoming European adventure.

As we gathered together, our staff got kinda goofy. When we work, we work hard, and we take our work very seriously. A lot of the work we do is really heavy, and so when we get together and are not working…we love to laugh together. After getting caught up on some administrative matters to continue to ever improve the way we deliver service to our clients, we just started sharing about what made our work meaningful, about what it was like to do good work with clients, about how it felt when we know we have had a part in contributing to healing in a client’s life.

It was wonderful to be a part of the warmth of the room…we care about each other, are incredibly supportive of each other, and joked and giggled in ways that included others who are relatively new. Both Rebecca and Melanie were there…they do a lot administratively to support our work, and to allow our work to be effective(…and every so often they need to whip us into shape). They are an important part of the therapeutic team even though they never enter a session…and it felt natural to include them in our meeting (well, until Melanie had to leave early for the Jets game, anyways.) 😉

I was once again humbled to realize how privileged I am to be a part of an incredible team that loves to work together. We like each other. We make it a pleasant place to spend time hanging out. The senior therapists welcome the junior therapists to bounce ideas off them. The junior therapists let the senior therapists know it is appreciated. And the respect all have for each other is incredible.

Bergen & Associates Counselling is a neat place to do therapy in so many ways…and on Saturday as I left our meeting with a warm glow, after lots of help to clean up, and people still sitting chatting with each other long after it was over, I was reminded again how very blessed I am to work with the team we have.

Thanx, guys!