Healthcare Professional Counselling

Working in healthcare means spending your days caring for other people, often while putting your own needs somewhere near the bottom of the list.

There are long shifts, impossible workloads, difficult patients, heartbreaking cases, workplace politics, staffing shortages, ethical decisions, and the pressure to keep functioning regardless of what else is happening in your life. Over time, even work you genuinely care about can start to feel very different.

Therapy gives you somewhere to put some of that down.

My Approach

Before becoming a Registered Clinical Counsellor, I worked for more than a decade as a pharmacist in hospital and community healthcare, including serving as a Pharmacy Officer in the Canadian Armed Forces.

So when you talk about difficult patient interactions, professional responsibility, moral distress, burnout, healthcare culture, or the strange experience of being very good at taking care of other people while not doing particularly well yourself…I get it.

My approach is to do my best to be practical, warm, and straightforward. We can talk about what’s happening at work, but we can also look at the bigger picture: who you are outside of your profession, what this career is costing you, what still matters to you about it, and what might need to change.

Things We Might Work On

Healthcare professionals come to counselling for all kinds of reasons, including:

• Burnout and compassion fatigue

• Workplace stress and conflict

• Moral distress and ethical challenges

• Anxiety, depression, and chronic stress

• Perfectionism and the pressure to get everything right

• Difficult patient or family interactions

• Grief, cumulative loss, and exposure to suffering

• Mistakes, adverse events, or experiences that are difficult to let go of

• Career transitions and questions about professional identity

• Boundaries and work-life balance

• Feeling disconnected from work you once loved

• Recognizing burnout before you hit the wall

What to Expect

You don’t have to come to therapy knowing whether you’re burned out, need a different job, need better boundaries, or just desperately need a vacation.

We’ll start with what’s happening now and figure it out from there. Sometimes that means learning how to stay in a career you still care about without letting it consume you. Sometimes it means working through experiences you’ve been carrying for years. And sometimes it means asking some bigger questions about what you want the next part of your life to look like.

Ready to Get Started?

You’re allowed to take off the professional hat here.

You don’t need to have the answers, be composed, or be the person who knows what to do next.

Come as you are. We’ll start there.