Mental Status

Meg & Yulia chat about how identity intersects with impostor syndrome & burnout in the mental health field.

Show Notes

About Today's Show:

In this week's episode of Mental Status, I sat down with Yulia Golubev, LMHC who speaks about her experiences with burnout as she navigated the ways in which her identities & background intersected with the work she was doing in the field.

Yulia explores the impact of being an immigrant to the USA and her experience of providing therapy in a place & language she did not grow up with. She discusses how her various identities impacted the work she did with mandated clients at a rehab facility in New York. Yulia is honest and transparent in sharing her stories and provides thoughtful ways of approaching this work through the lens of burnout prevention.

About Today's Guest:


Yuliya is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of New York. She runs her private practice in NYC. Yuliya is a seasoned bilingual-bicultural psychotherapist who has been seeing clients for over 14 years. She has been running her private practice since 2017. Prior to starting her private practice, Yuliya worked with a diverse set of clients in a variety of clinical settings: college counseling, outpatient substance abuse program, crisis call center,  hospitals, and managed care.  Yuliya also provided a spectrum of clinical services: individual, group, family therapies, crisis intervention, and supervision. 

Yuliya is passionate about professional advocacy and teaching. She served one term as the Professional Development Chair and Vice President for the NYC Chapter of the New York Mental Health Counseling Association. Yuliya is a part-time adjunct Professor at St. Francis College. She teaches undergraduate classes of General Psychology and Child and Adolescent Developmental. Yuliya also enjoys volunteering to decrease the stigma of mental health. 

Yuliya lives with her family in Brooklyn. When not in the office, she enjoys discovering new hiking trails, strolling NYC neighborhood, going to the theater, and trying new recipes.

Find Yulia on Instagram @golubev.therapy and on her website at www.yuliyagolubev.com

Credits, links & other things:

Disclaimer, y'all: This is a podcast meant for education and entertainment purposes only. I'm not your therapist. This podcast doesn't replace therapy or clinical supervision and isn't supposed to replace those things. If you need a therapist or supervisor, please find one. My opinions are my own and don't reflect the opinion(s) of my past/present/future employers.

What is Mental Status?

Fatigued. Anxious. Irritable. Depressed. How are you actually doing?

Welcome to Mental Status, a podcast made for burnt-out therapists looking to reignite their life beyond the chair. Each episode, your host Meg explores the ins, outs, ups and downs of being a professional helper in the modern age, and ways to help the most important person of all—yourself.