Counseling for Healthcare Professionals
Confidential therapy for healthcare and medical professionals in Ohio
Helping helpers find balance and ease
I help physicians, nurses, APPs and other healthcare and medical professionals find balance and address burnout.
You dedicated your life to helping others. Maybe you even felt a deep calling to enter medicine or healthcare. You worked your butt off to complete school, get through residency, have a successful career. Despite all of that hard work and dedication, life and work feels hard. You might be noticing that your career is feeling heavy.
You may find it hard to sleep and that everything is resting on your shoulders. You feel drained, exhausted, and resentful.
Some days you might even find yourself wondering what life would be like if you stopped working in medicine. Unfortunately for many healthcare professionals, burnout and exhaustion feels like a way of life.
You may have tried to work on “self-care”, but found it difficult to truly find ways to slow down. Saying “no” brings up guilt, after all, you chose this profession to help people, right?
Like my clients, you deserve to feel balance, ease, and connection to your whole life, not just your career. Being more present for all parts of your life and learning to truly care for and prioritize your wellbeing is possible.
Despite the ways we have started to normalize seeking help, unfortunately there is still a stigma especially among healthcare workers in seeking help for their own wellbeing. But working as a healthcare professional is difficult work – physically, mentally, and emotionally. Struggling with burnout, anxiety, exhaustion, or other challenges isn’t a sign of weakness or that something is wrong with you! It is an understandable reaction to working in a difficult, high-demand system (that often does not truly value your wellbeing).
I also understand that often your time is limited. I have experience working with a wide range of different healthcare workers including residents and physicians, Advance Practice Providers, nurses, respiratory therapists, and more. I understand the unique challenges and traumas that working in healthcare brings and genuinely enjoy supporting healthcare workers. With the experience I bring, you won’t have the added barrier of having to “explain” healthcare to me.
Reach out today for your no-cost consultation to get started and learn more.
The Pandemic changed things
You worked throughout the entire pandemic. You knew that it was demanding a lot for you physically, mentally, and emotionally, but you continued to show up for every shift. You did all that you could to survive and keep up, often pushing down your own emotions and needs. You did what you had to do to make it through.
Now finding yourself in a different stage of the pandemic, you wonder why you still don’t feel back to your “old” self and you can’t quite shake the feeling that you will never be back to your “old” self.
You might have trouble sleeping or notice memories or dreams from working during the pandemic coming up more and more. Maybe you find thoughts like “would if it happens again?” or “could I really do this all again?”
You might notice more anxiety or tension in your body, never quite feeling like you can relax. Counseling can help ease the load. Together in therapy we will find ways to explore and process, at the pace you are comfortable, how working during the pandemic impacted you.