There is no career long enough to avoid the September hurdle. Returning from vacation always seems to mark a turning point and a new beginning. Compared to the past, however, office anxiety and the so-called post vacation blues resolve more quickly: the perception of feeling disoriented after the holidays is reported by one in five psychologists and is a brief phase. 65.6% say that a new balance is reached in a short time.
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The increase in requests for psychological support
The company offering online psychological services UnoBravo, which relies on a network of 9,500 professionals, notes that about 70% of the psychologists it collaborates with see a significant increase in requests to start a psychological path in September. At the same time, however, one in three professionals observes a dropout after a few sessions by new patients.
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The reasons
Although for many it is the topic that drains the most energy in September, work is not the first reason driving people to undertake a support path after returning from vacation. Psychologists indicate other priorities underlying the new paths. First of all, there are affective and personal relationships indicated by 31%, followed by life transitions (24.4%). Returning to work ranks only third (17.3%).
Psychological support does not take a holiday
Holidays increasingly coincide less with a break from psychological paths. Over a third (35.5%) of psychologists say that long-term patients, that is, those who have been in a psychological support path for more than 6 months, expressly ask to continue sessions even during the summer period. More than 1 in 2 patients needs to maintain a consolidated routine and continuity in the therapeutic alliance, seen as a “safe space” to protect even on vacation. More and more patients “ask not to interrupt sessions in summer. For some, the session can become a point of reference even in a period that, although associated with rest, still involves changes in routine and less predictability,” explains Corena Pezzella, psychotherapist and Clinical Manager of Unobravo. The summer break for those in a consolidated path does not discourage continuing it: about 92% of psychologists report that interruptions of already started paths concern only a minimal part of patients and in at least one case out of four the interruption represents a completely physiological step coinciding with the conclusion of the path.
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