Counsellor's Energy Audit Self-Assessment

HOW CHARGED ARE YOUR BATTERIES? Your most important instrument is yourself. The quality of your presence—your capacity to listen, attune, and respond—depends on how resourced and energised you feel. Over time, the demands of holding emotional space for others, running a business, and managing life outside work can gradually erode that inner energy. The Energy Audit Tool invites you to pause and take a compassionate look at where your energy is being sustained, and where it may be leaking away. It is not a performance measure or diagnostic checklist—it’s a self-awareness resource designed to help you restore balance, strengthen sustainability, and honour your own wellbeing. An energy audit is a structured self-assessment that explores how your personal and professional energy is distributed across key dimensions of wellbeing—physical, mental, emotional, relational, psychological, behavioural, financial, and spiritual. Just as an environmental energy audit identifies where power is used efficiently or wasted, this tool helps you notice: * Where your vitality feels high or low, * What drains your inner resources, and * Which practices nourish and restore you. It encourages mindful reflection rather than judgment—bringing awareness to patterns that often remain invisible until burnout or fatigue appear. Conducting an energy audit can help you: * Prevent burnout by identifying depletion before it becomes distress. * Enhance therapeutic presence through better regulation and rest. * Make informed business decisions that reflect your capacity and values. * Foster longevity and fulfilment in your practice by aligning effort with purpose. * Model self-awareness—the very quality you invite in your clients. Ultimately, this process supports you in being a grounded, reflective, and well-resourced practitioner. #counselling #clinicalsupervision #privatepractice #energyaudit