Therapy for professionals

Counseling for survivors of grief, trauma and addiction

Therapy for helping professionals

Do you feel like different, but you do not why?

You have been working overtime helping others, but who takes care of you. Perhaps you are taking on the suffering of others and feel emotionally drained or burnt out. Maybe you feel numb and disconnected from others. Perhaps you may be experiencing secondary trauma or compassion fatigue. Or simply the stress is affected the challenges you were already facing.

Whatever you are feeling, it's starting to affect your life:

Keep having flashbacks that cause distress
Becoming irritable with others
Difficulty falling or staying asleep
Don't feel as motivated to do your job
Difficulty focusing on job or while speaking to others

Trauma therapy can help

It may be hard to believe, but you can reconnect with yourself. You can find balance and relief. You can start feeling better again. I can help you.

Trauma therapy can help:

learn skills to cope with secondary trauma
identify what has changed that you feel different
build resilience skills to adapt to adversity
explore deeper into yourself

My approach to therapy for helping professionals comes from understanding of how the line of work you do can worsen the challenges in your life and how the support you receive is important to reconnect with yourself.

Reconnect with yourself

You don't have to keep feeling like you are not yourself, or emotionally exhausted. You can find balance and relief and start feeling better again. I can help you get there.

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Common Questions

What is compassion fatigue?

If your profession is in the helping field, you may be experiencing compassion fatigue. You may have heard about your clients experiencing extreme stress or trauma. As an empathic professional you may take on the suffering of your clients. As a result, you may start to experience symptoms of secondary trauma. Some of the signs and symptoms of secondary trauma are recurrent nightmares, flashbacks. Being avoidant or hypervigilant, difficulty falling or staying asleep. If you have experience trauma, anxiety or depression, you might have been triggered or symptoms might have worsened by the line of work you do. You can take the following assessment to see if you are at risk or are already experiencing compassion fatigue.

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How does it affect you?

You become irritable towards family or co-workers, and you might argue more often. You sleep 4-5 hours and wake up tired and drowsy the next day. You feel exhausted all the time. You begin to fall behind on home or job tasks because you do not have the motivation to do anything. You feel numb or dull about your job that you do not feel as motivated as before. You feel you have too much work and not enough support. You take the burden to your home. You have relationship and communication issues. You withdraw from your family, partner or friends.

What happens during counseling?

You will learn self-compassion and resilience skills to adapt to the stress that stems from your line of work. We will work together to identify signs associated with compassion fatigue so you can be aware of them, and you can be prepared to handle them. Using creative arts to process difficult memories can help you feel safer and lead to understanding things differently. As you talk about what bothers you, we will focus on empowering you to take control of your life and not let your thoughts control you. You will learn to find relief from your emotionally demanding job. You will learn to maintain genuine compassion for your work

What is the next step?

Schedule a brief 10-15minute phone consult to talk more about what is going on and then determine if this is a good fit for you. After that we will schedule an initial appointment.

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