Healthcare Professionals & Therapists

 
 

As a healthcare provider, you dedicate your life to the service of others.

However, the relentless demands of caring for others can take a toll on your own well-being.

As helping professionals, we may often find ourselves in the unique position of providing support and guidance to others, but the demanding nature of our work can lead us to overlook our own mental and emotional well-being.

It's important to remember that we’re human too and aren’t immune to the challenges and stressors that life can present. Just like anyone else, therapists and healthcare providers can really benefit from therapy.

Does this sound familiar?

  • You feel emotionally exhausted or burned out

  • You’re experiencing compassion fatigue

  • Juggling your demanding work schedule and personal life feels overwhelming

  • Managing your workload feels impossible

  • You feel alone, powerless, or like an impostor

  • You feel pressured to have it all together

  • You’re struggling to do it all and feel stretched too thin

You’re not alone. Nearly 50% of all healthcare professionals report experiencing burnout (Berg, 2023). This number continues to rise across those who work in the healthcare field and many people are looking for support.

 
 
 

Therapy for Healthcare Professionals & Therapists

As a healthcare professional and therapist myself, I know how important it is to find a space to feel supported and empowered.

The nature of healthcare professions can be emotionally demanding. We’re exposed to the struggles and traumas of our clients, bear witness to immense suffering, and often absorb the emotional weight of others’ pain. When we experience high-levels of this type of work-related stress, our risk of poorer health and chronic health conditions increases (U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory, 2022).

Therapy provides a safe space for healthcare professionals like you to process these emotions, which helps prevent and reduce burnout and compassion fatigue, while promoting emotional well-being.

Remember: You deserve a space to receive the care you so freely give to everyone else and it’s ok to not have it all together.

In therapy, you’ll have a confidential and non-judgmental place where you can process and cope with your experiences and navigate the emotional complexities of your work.

We’ll come up with personalized strategies to improve your well-being so you can keep showing up for others.

Lana’s Experience

I have worked in various healthcare settings (Skilled Nursing Facility, non-profit healthcare foundation, Intensive Care Units in two hospitals) and have worked alongside many incredible healthcare professionals as they provide care to others.

When the COVID-19 pandemic started, I was working in two ICUs at a local level-one trauma hospital. During this time, I helped develop and implement a crisis response team to help our colleagues who were struggling with critical incidents. I received Critical Incident Stress Management Training from the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation to learn how to help healthcare professionals experiencing distress.

I have been published in the New Social Worker Magazine where I wrote about the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has on the collective world and how Social Workers are essential to bringing healing.

I have also given talks to medical professionals at the National Kidney Foundation’s annual Spring Clinical Meetings about how we as healthcare professionals can offer hope to clients living with chronic health conditions.

I’m passionate about enhancing the health and well-being of healthcare professionals. My focus is on fostering communities of care that eliminate the stigma associated with healthcare providers seeking mental health support.

Clinical Supervision & Case Consultation

In addition to therapy, I also offer supervision and case consultation for therapists in Indiana and Hawaii. If you’re interested in supervision or case consultation, please reach out to me here.

References

Berg, S. (2023). Work overload triples the risk of burnout in healthcare. https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/physician-health/work-overload-triples-risk-burnout-health-care

U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on Building a Thriving Health Workforce. (2022). Addressing health worker burnout. https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/health-worker-wellbeing-advisory.pdf

Let’s get started.