Therapy for Doctors
& Medical Professionals in Houston & across TX
When you’re a healthcare worker, it’s not a job you can just put away after hours
As a doctor, nurse, or researcher, you’re conscientious, diligent, and most of all, you care. These qualities make you amazing at your job. But in a world where the medical system is under constant pressure and change, it can be hard to do this work in a way that aligns with your values.
Over time, this leads to burnout, resentment, and feeling stuck.
While therapy can’t overhaul the entire medical system, it can help you stay connected to the reasons you entered this field in the first place:
To provide excellent care
To be engaged in meaningful work
To build a life with your loved ones that you actually get to be present for and enjoy
If you’re ready to prioritize yourself and untangle from feeling stuck and burned out, reach out today to learn how therapy can help.
Common mental health struggles facing physicians and nurses
While anxiety, trauma, and burnout are common in the general population, they show up in specific ways for healthcare workers.
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From day one you’re taught to set your own feelings aside so you can attend to patient care above all else.
That compartmentalization can make you so good in a crisis!
Over time, though, this creates a pattern of shutting yourself down, impacting your relationships with others (and your relationship with yourself).
While disconnecting from your emotions may feel helpful at first, over time it usually leads to getting stuck in anxiety, stress, or numbness that’s not sustainable.
Therapy can help you reconnect to yourself in an empowered way so you can feel your emotions without the worry that they’ll take over completely.
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So many clients who present with anxiety are worried that their decisions will have grave consequences. A lot of therapy work is helping them separate from that false sense of urgency.
But as a medical provider, your decisions may actually be life or death. Consequences can feel so heavy, leading to entrenched patterns of perfectionism — both on the job and off.
Therapy is about building in space for self-compassion alongside your high standards so you don’t get buried in self-judgment.
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Changes to insurance companies, volatile public policies, and frequent administrative shake ups leave clinicians and medical researchers in constant flux.
This has always been true to some extent, but in recent years, the providers I work with are feeling the strain even more.
Doctors were never meant to operate solely on RVUs or to be pushed toward “best practices” by people who’ve never held a clinical role.
Many of those who advocate for themselves and their patients are ignored at best or punished for “being a problem” at worst.
Therapy can help you balance your desire to provide the best care with the real-life parameters you face.
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Burnout is often dismissed in demanding fields like medicine because “that’s just the job.”
Many workplaces have little to no infrastructure to meaningfully support doctors, nurses, and medical researchers struggling with burnout.
It becomes a vicious cycle when a lack of support leads to gaps in patient care, making providers even harder on themselves (which in turn leads to more burnout).
Therapy can help you recognize and accept where you are in the burnout cycle without getting mired in feelings of powerlessness. From there we build on your innate sense of resilience, even if it feels so hard to access right now.
When you’re used to being the one everyone else calls in a crisis, it can be hard to set that down.
Therapy is a place where, for once, you get to be the one receiving care.
Hi, I’m Katy, a licensed therapist who specializes in working with medical professionals
I offer convenient virtual therapy in Houston and across Texas for doctors, nurses, and medical researchers struggling with high-functioning anxiety, chronic guilt, and trauma.
For the last five years as Therapy Team Lead at Baylor College of Medicine Psychiatry Clinic, I’ve worked with doctors, nurses, medical students, and researchers as both clients and colleagues. Healthcare providers quickly became one of my favorite populations to support.
While I blend several therapy modalities, the two I use most—including in my work with medical providers—are Brainspotting and Somatic Therapy.
Why I love this work
I was referred so many wonderful healthcare providers and medical researchers as clients while working at Baylor. In my experience, they show up to therapy with commitment, open-mindedness, and readiness for deep therapy work. But they often struggle greatly with self-compassion and burnout.
I truly enjoy sharing this work with healthcare providers and helping them find the balance and self-kindness to make lasting, meaningful change so they can spend less time struggling with anxiety, guilt, and trauma, and more time living their lives.
Your privacy is paramount
Because I don't bill through insurance, there's no diagnosis code tied to your employer's health plan unless you specifically request a superbill. Just confidential, private-pay care between us.
Curious what relief could feel like?
If you’re a medical professional ready to see what it’s like when: