Healthcare Worker Coaching

This program was created by two medical professionals - a Board-Certified, Emergency Medicine Physician and a longtime psychiatric physician assistant. We have firsthand experienced vicarious medical trauma and have learned that, due to the rigor, quick pace, and constant encouragement of compartmentalizing our feelings, there was no safe space to process this and connect with our colleagues. Instead, individuals quickly find unhealthy coping skills to numb themselves from unwanted feelings and look for escape in food, sex, drugs, alcohol, social media, Netflix, video games among others. Women experience routine sexual harassment from patients in addition to the fellow healthcare workers that they are supposed to trust. We can work with individuals to help process their pain, develop healthy coping skills, and work to feel their feelings rather than hide from them.