therapy for nurses, physicians, paramedics, etc...

you are allowed to put the shift down.

counselling for caregivers & healthcare workers across british columbia. this is a judgement free zone to process.

  • evenings available
  • virtual across bc
  • safe debrief space
  • free 20-minute consult

you are very good at being fine.

you can run a code, deliver bad news, and finish a shift without flinching. that competence is real. it is also not the same as being okay, and it can make it very hard to ask for anything for yourself.

  • the shift that follows you home

    a particular face, a particular room, a decision you keep re-running at 2am. it does not stay at work the way you were told it would.

  • compassion that has run dry

    you still care. you just cannot feel it anymore, and the flatness worries you more than the exhaustion does.

  • no room to say it out loud

    debriefs get skipped, colleagues are as burnt out as you are, and there is a quiet sense that admitting to struggling would count against you.

a room where you are the focus.

i am not going to ask you to be resilient. healthcare asks that of you constantly, and it is usually a way of making a system's problem into your personal failing. what happens here is slower and more honest than that: we look at what the work has actually cost you, and we do it somewhere that has nothing to do with your role or designation. just who you are as a person.

Paula in floral scrubs, a mirror selfie from her nursing days

what working together looks like

no intake marathon, no forms before we have even met. we start with an introductory consult conversation and go from there.

we talk

a free 20-minute call. tell me what is going on, ask whatever you want, and see whether i am the right fit. no obligation either way.

we make room

we find a time that survives your rotation. sessions are virtual, so there is no commute stacked on top of a twelve-hour day.

we go at your pace

we slow things down and make sense of what you are carrying, without rushing you toward being useful again.

off

you spend all day being the steady one. book a free consult and let someone else hold it for an hour.

book a free consult

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