Burn Out & Finding Mental Health Support In Ministry for 2026
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Burn Out & Finding Mental Health Support In Ministry for 2026

This week, we’re naming the heaviness of what it means to serve in a care-based vocation. We hold stories of grief and celebration, navigate complex dynamics, and try to remain faithful in contexts that are often under-resourced and deeply in flux. And it’s hard work.

Our Ministry Forum team is working on something to help in this area — the Listening Support Network - which you can read more about in our companion post. This is an area of ministy we are deeply passionate about and one we’ve talked about before. Below is a post we shared a while back and for this week’s theme of “finding support” we decided to revisit with a few updated resources you can dig into today.

We hope something here will help you tend your own soul, support those around you, and maybe even discern new ways to give back.

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Psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors for Ministry Leaders.
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Psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors for Ministry Leaders.

In this post we’re offering you some searchable sites to find a practitioner that might be a helpful companion for you as you serve in ministry. I’ve always said that sometimes we need to pay someone to focus on listening to us when we spend so much of our time and energy listening to everyone else. It is an invaluable investment in ourselves.

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Dear Ministry Leader: YOU Matter Too.
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Dear Ministry Leader: YOU Matter Too.

One finding that fascinated me - and connects with how we may be feeling at the moment - was this: almost 100% of pastors acknowledge that it is somewhat true that their mental health is important while half use none of the identified services for personal, spiritual, or mental health support (like counsellors, spiritual directors, coaches, psychotherapists, etc)…

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