Therapy for Therapists, Nurses, and Physicians in Denver, CO
Serving Therapists, Nurses, and Physicians in NYC, Denver, and Maine via Secure Telehealth
It’s 9PM and you’ve just finished with your last client of the day. You can feel the shutdown creeping into your eyelids and you slowly start disconnecting from yourself and your computer even though you know there’s a pile of notes waiting to be entered.
Lately, it feels like you’re dragging through life. It feels like you’re moving through soup to complete your goals, but there’s no finish line. There are always notes left undone or kids wanting you to play with them. Never mind the number of house projects to complete.
You don’t feel like you have the right to complain since on paper, you’re “living the dream.” But inside, you feel unsettled and over-burdened by the life you chose.
Forget “You can’t pour from an empty cup.” Let’s fill your cup back up simply because you deserve to have more capacity to enjoy your life. True relief isn’t another vacation or a lighter week. True relief comes from changing how your nervous system holds the weight of your clinical work. Together, we will process the vicarious trauma, dissolve the imposter syndrome, and get you back to a place where your career feels like a calling again, not a life sentence
What Does Therapy For Therapists and Healthcare Professionals Look Like?
When you’re a healthcare worker or therapist, you know the tools because you do this work. You’ve truly tried every tool in the box. If you’re looking for therapy, it’s because you’ve already hit a crisis point and you need help now. And now that you’ve gotten to this point, a sense of shame at not being able to “handle” the job you do.
We will start integrating somatic and distress tolerance tools from the beginning so you leave your first session feeling like you’ve accomplished something. This part of our work prepares you to safely go into those wounds and the earlier events that shaped who you are.
I’ve written for EMDRIA’s Focal Point Blog on using EMDR therapy to reduce shame in the healthcare professionals and therapists I see for therapy. I also use EMDR to target the workplace trauma that is “just part of the job.”
Most importantly, through therapy, you’ll start feeling like yourself again. You’ll look forward to spending time with your kids instead of dreading taking care of more people at the end of your day. You’ll find yourself effectively separating work from home and setting necessary boundaries to sustain yourself as a hard worker and a human being.
Therapy For Compassion Fatigue in Denver, CO
Workplace trauma impacts us the same as any other acute event. EMDR is incredibly effective for resolving the workplace traumas that contribute to burnout and compassion fatigue in healthcare professionals. I use specific EMDR protocols to address recent events to prevent you from developing PTSD by processing them now. My practice integrates parts work, somatic psychology, interpersonal therapy, CBT, DBT, and EMDR.
When Mainstream “Self Care” Doesn’t Cut It: Integrated EMDR, IFS, and Somatic Therapy for Healthcare Professionals in Colorado, NYC, & Maine
We are humans in a caring profession and we’re bound to be impacted by the people and systems we work with. I offer therapy for therapists, healthcare workers, and helping professionals as someone who has been in similar shoes and who cares deeply about your longevity in the profession.
You’re a therapist, so you know the importance of a good self care routine. But sometimes our self care routines stop being as effective. If they become too routine, we become bored. Other times, we lose the motivation to engage in an activity we once looked forward to doing.
Signs of vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue that we address in therapy for Denver therapists and healthcare professionals and in NYC and Maine
- Feeling less connected to family and friends
- Numbing yourself by eating more, scrolling your phone, over sleeping, or using substances
- Dreading work (do you get the “Sunday Scaries?”)
- Irritability with coworkers, clients, or friends/family
- Escaping work by looking for other jobs non-stop or calling out more frequently
- Loss of sense of self outside of work
You know the physiological signs of compassion fatigue: How are you noticing them in your own body?
Therapists and healthcare professionals are notoriously bad at caring for our own mental health and we are prone to burnout and compassion fatigue. We are often perfectionists, high achieving, and a little self-sacrificing. On top of (sometimes because of) these personality traits, we have careers caring for others. We hold people during their hardest experiences during our own experiences of distress, grief, and the burdens of daily life. I specialize in supporting healthcare professionals getting through to the other side of this experience.
You’ve been told to “do your own work” to be a better therapist, but you’re not sure what that means.
My approach is gently challenging: I’ll help you pay attention to your patterns, including the intellectualizing that keeps you separated from experiencing what you’ve been through. You’re aware of the skills, but therapists and healthcare professionals aren’t always great at practicing what we preach. I will guide you to reconnect with your system and integrate all your knowledge to benefit your own wellbeing for once.
