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Professional Health Consulting for
Healthcare Professionals

In addition to clinical services, I offer professional health consulting and coaching for healthcare professionals and organizations. These services focus on communication, leadership, and workplace functioning and are not psychotherapy.

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Consulting and coaching services are typically accessed through referral by healthcare organizations, hospital systems, or professional boards.

Burnout and Workplace Transitions

Are you a healthcare professional who is feeling emotionally exhausted or do you dread going to work? Are you feeling increasingly angry, cynical, or detached? Has your confidence in your work or your productivity decreased?

You may be experiencing burnout. Burnout and depression often go hand in hand. You are not alone. While burnout is particularly common in healthcare professions, it can occur in any vocation, and it is common. By some reports, at least 50% of people are experiencing burnout at any given time.

Burnout is associated with increased costs, medical errors, patient dissatisfaction, and increased malpractice lawsuits, not to mention the fact that burnout tends to be "contagious." The team members working with a burned-out professional are far more likely to develop burnout too. Among physicians in the US, the average cost to replace a physician who leaves a healthcare organization secondary to burnout is estimated to be $500,000.​

Reducing or preventing burnout requires changes at both the individual and the organizational level, and I am committed to addressing both. You do not have to face these challenges alone. Help is available. With coaching, I help healthcare professionals with:

  • Build resilience and emotional self-regulation that can serve as a buffer against burnout

  • Mindfulness of thoughts and feeling

  • Acceptance while striving for better

  • Replacing reactivity with intentional responses

  • Communication skills development (assertiveness, conflict resolution, anger management, communicating empathy)

  • Motivational interviewing skills (reflective listening)

  • Perspective-taking 

  • Utilizing grounding skills

  • Enhancing leadership skills,​ including skills for leading laterally (with same-level peers) and leading up (proactively influencing your superiors and the organization by supporting their goals, providing solutions, building trust, and taking initiative) 

Distressed or Disruptive Behavior

Have you been told that your workplace behavior is disruptive? Have you been referred for coaching to address complaints against you in the workplace? Or are you hoping to prevent complaints but aren't sure where to begin?

The term "disruptive behavior" is broadly used in healthcare settings to describe a variety of concerns that have the potential to impact patient care. Professional evaluation and coaching can help identify contributing factors and ameliorate problematic behaviors. Individual sessions for disruptive behavior provide an integrative approach and are informed by motivational interviewing, cognitive-behavioral interventions, and interpersonal skill development.
 
Group and individual interventions for disruptive behavior provide support and interpersonal skill development in a safe and supportive learning environment. Clinicians learn to recognize thoughts and feelings that have previously led to problematic behavior, particularly in the workplace, and they develop strategies for responding with more appropriate behavior. 

 

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