Tenneile Manenti

The government's Psychology Supply and Demand Study landed this month. We're already short, and heading for a near-complete shortfall by 2038. The proposed fix is to train more. Nobody's asking why we're losing the ones we've got — or what's actually producing the exits.

The question I hear most often from people sitting with psychological injury isn't "what happened to me?" It's "why wasn't I strong enough to handle it?" That question tells me everything — and none of it is about the person asking it.

There's a quote from a small business owner in a recent piece of Australian workplace research that I haven't been able to stop thinking about. "It actually makes me feel incredibly inadequate. I can't see a way around it within this particular business structure." They were talking about psychosocial compliance. And they weren't wrong. The Psychosocial Risk Gap Nobody Talks About If you're running a small practice — legal, allied health, financial advisory, any professional services firm —...