I understand the Culture of Healthcare

Working in healthcare comes with pressures that can be difficult to understand from the outside—the responsibility, the pace, the exposure to suffering, the expectation to perform, and the experience of caring for others while managing your own life outside of work. You may carry the weight of difficult patient outcomes, exposure to suffering and death, moral distress, demanding schedules, challenging team or system dynamics, or the pressure of making decisions that affect other people's lives. You may also work within a culture where competence is highly valued and vulnerability can feel much harder to show.

For some healthcare professionals, seeking therapy brings another layer of concern: questions about privacy, credentialing, licensing, or what it might mean professionally to acknowledge that you're struggling. Those concerns deserve to be taken seriously rather than dismissed.

I provide virtual therapy for healthcare professionals across disciplines and stages of their careers, including physicians, nurses, residents and fellows, therapists, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals.

My experience working within a health system means you don't have to start by teaching me what your work environment is like. We can spend that time focusing on you.

When You're Used to Being the One Who Functions

Healthcare often rewards the ability to keep going. You learn to make decisions under pressure, manage competing demands, stay composed when things are difficult, and continue performing even when you're exhausted.

Those abilities can serve you well professionally. They can also make it surprisingly difficult to recognize when you're struggling—or to let someone else help.

You may be functioning well on the outside while privately dealing with burnout, anxiety, perfectionism, irritability, grief, self-doubt, or the overall emotional impact of your work. You may know exactly what you would tell a patient or colleague to do and still find it difficult to extend that same care to yourself.

Therapy doesn't require you to stop being capable. It can give you a place where you don't have to rely on capability alone.