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September 3, 2026 | 10-11:30am PacificComing Home to Yourself: Why Being the Capable One Isn't Enough
Coming Home to Yourself: Why Being the Capable One Isn't Enough
A free 90-minute experiential gathering for therapists and practice owners
Thursday, September 3, 2026 · 10:00 am – 11:30 am Pacific
Online via Zoom
Somewhere along the way, many of us became so good at caring for others and leading those around us that we slowly lost touch with ourselves.
As therapists, helpers, leaders, and practice owners, we're often valued for being capable, dependable, and deeply attuned to the needs of others. These qualities allow us to do meaningful work. They help us build thriving practices, support clients through profound change, and create spaces where others feel seen and understood.
But when being capable becomes more than something we do - when it becomes who we believe we need to be - we can quietly lose connection with our own inner experience.
We continue showing up.
We keep carrying.
We keep giving.
Yet beneath the competence, many of us begin to notice a quiet longing for something more: more ease, more authenticity, more joy, more spaciousness, and a deeper connection with ourselves.
Coming home to yourself is the practice of finding that connection again.
This free 90-minute experiential webinar is an invitation to pause, reconnect, and explore what becomes possible when we stop living solely from responsibility and begin living from congruence.
Whether you joined us for The Therapist's Exhale or this is your first time with us, you'll be warmly welcomed.
What You’ll Experience
This won't look like a typical webinar.
There will be teaching, reflection, and guided experiential practices woven together so the ideas don't simply make sense intellectually - they become something you can begin to feel, embody, and live.
Over the 90 minutes, you can expect:
A gentle grounding practice to help you arrive fully and reconnect with yourself.
An exploration of how the very strengths that make us effective therapists and leaders can quietly become sources of depletion when they turn into chronic over-functioning.
A guided experiential reflection to help move insight from your head into your body, your relationships, and your everyday choices.
A conversation about what changes when we begin receiving support with the same openness we offer others.
Practical, meaningful ways to cultivate greater congruence in both your personal life and your professional leadership.
You'll leave with a deeper understanding of why so many helpers lose touch with themselves, an embodied experience of what it feels like to begin coming home again, and practical ways to bring more congruence into your everyday life.
A Conversation That Stayed With Us
During The Therapist's Exhale, one participant shared a reflection in the chat that has stayed with both of us:
"Doing relational work without being in relation with our self wouldn't make sense."
We haven't stopped thinking about that sentence.
Because it captures something so many therapists and practice owners quietly experience.
We spend our days helping others reconnect with themselves while slowly drifting away from our own inner experience.
This webinar begins there.
And together, we'll explore what it means to return - not by becoming someone different, but by remembering who you've always been beneath the roles, responsibilities, and expectations you've carried.
This Is For You If
You're an established therapist or practice owner, the person people count on, the one who reads the room before anyone asks you to. You've built something real, and from the outside it probably looks like it's working. But you've noticed the gap between what you know and how you're actually living has been widening, and you're tired in a way that isn't really about hours.
This is for you if you're ready to do something about that, not with more strategies, but with something deeper. And not at the expense of the practice you've built, but for it.
What we'll explore together
How the very strengths that make us good helpers become costly when they tip into over-functioning, and how we begin reclaiming them.
Why knowing something isn't the same as living it, and what it actually takes to move insight from your head into your body, your relationships, and your daily choices.
What happens when we learn to receive support with the same generosity we offer others.
How greater congruence allows us to care, lead, and live from a place that feels more sustainable, authentic, and deeply aligned.
Practical ways to begin integrating these shifts into your work, your relationships, and your daily life.
What you’ll leave with:
A deeper understanding of what it truly means to come home to yourself.
A clearer awareness of the patterns that may be pulling you away from your own authenticity.
A felt sense of the difference between knowing congruence and living it.
At least one practical, implementable way to start shifting how you show up, at work and at home.
At it’s heart, this conversation is about congruence: the alignment between who we are, what we value, and how we actually live, lead, and work
Meet Your Facilitators
Jennifer Nagel, a Satir-trained therapist, author, and educator whose work in congruence and human connection has shaped clinicians around the world.
Lisa Catallo, a psychotherapist who centres on supporting women in clinical and helping professions to live and lead in ways that feel aligned, sustainable, and true to who they actually are.
Together, we're also leading Coming Home to Congruence, a small-group immersive leadership retreat in Costa Rica this coming winter - designed to help therapists and practice owners reconnect with themselves while cultivating more authentic, sustainable ways of living, leading, and serving. We'll share the full details live on the call, including a fast-action bonus for anyone who registers within seven days of the webinar.
you'll understand why being competent and capable isn't the same as being okay, and you'll leave with a clearer sense of what it takes to come home to yourself so you can lead, live, and practice with more congruence and less performance.
By the end of this webinar…
Thursday, September 3, 2026 10:00 am – 11:30 am Pacific
Online via Zoom
Free to attend
A recording will be sent to everyone who registers
To register, email us at info@congruentpractice.com and we'll send you the Zoom link and a few details to get ready.
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