Therapy for Nurses, Doctors and Healthcare Workers in Orlando, FL

You take care of everyone else

If you work in healthcare, most of your day is spent on other people. Patients, families, coworkers, the next admission, the next chart. Very little of the day belongs to you.

Short staffing means you cover more than you should. Long shifts blur together. You skip meals, stay late because something came up, and start the next shift already tired.

Then you go home, and the work comes with you. You replay a hard case in the middle of the night, snap at someone you love, or feel nothing at all.

None of this means you are weak or in the wrong field. It means you have been carrying a lot for a long time. Therapy is a place to set some of it down.

Therapy for nurses

Nurses are at the bedside for the hardest moments, often with too many patients and not enough help.

Many nurses describe a slow wearing down. Rotating shifts and nights throw off sleep and make it hard to recover. Compassion fatigue can make it harder to feel the care that brought you into nursing. And when leadership does not seem to notice, it is easy to feel unsupported and alone.

In therapy, we start with what is weighing on you most. That might be rest between shifts, a patient you cannot stop thinking about, boundaries with work, or whether to stay in your current role. We go at your pace, and the hour is about you.

Therapy for physicians and residents

Medicine rewards perfectionism. Years of training teach you to push through fatigue, hide uncertainty and treat any mistake as unacceptable. That can serve patients well and still cost you a lot.

Residents often carry long hours, high stakes and little control over their schedules. Attending physicians carry decisions that stay with them long after the shift ends.

Many doctors put off therapy because they worry about what it could mean for their career. That is a fair concern, and we can talk about it openly. What you share with me stays between us, within the usual legal limits, which I go over with you at the start.

In our sessions, you do not have to be the expert in the room.

Therapy for therapists and other clinicians

Therapists, counselors, social workers and other clinicians do this work too, and it adds up.

You may know every coping skill and still find it hard to use them on yourself. Sitting with other people’s pain all day can leave little room for your own.

I am a therapist myself, so I understand some of what this work asks of you. You do not have to explain the language or perform being well. We can talk plainly about what is hard, including how the work shows up in your own life and relationships.

If your stress is tied more to work pressure in general, you can read about my approach to therapy for professionals in Orlando.

Burnout, compassion fatigue and moral injury

These three often get lumped together. They overlap, but they are not the same.

If burnout is the main thing you are dealing with, I write more about it on my page about therapy for burnout in Orlando.

When it has not lifted: ketamine-assisted psychotherapy

Sometimes therapy, rest and medication do not move depression or trauma enough. For some people, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy may be worth exploring.

I do not prescribe ketamine. A licensed medical provider does the medical evaluation, decides whether it is safe and appropriate for you, and handles the prescribing. I provide the therapy: preparation before each medicine session, support during it, and integration afterward.

Medicine sessions happen in person in Orlando, or at home in Florida with me on video the whole time, when the medical provider decides at-home dosing is safe.

It is not for everyone, and I cannot promise how you will respond. You can read more about ketamine-assisted psychotherapy in Orlando.

Insurance and cost

I accept insurance for therapy with these plans: UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, Cigna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Florida Blue, Oscar, Optum, Oxford and Carelon Behavioral Health. That covers regular therapy and the preparation and integration sessions of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.

Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy is billed in separate parts. Its therapy sessions can be billed to insurance. Ketamine dosing sessions are cash-pay only. The medicine and medical visits are billed separately by the medical provider.

If you are not sure where to start, I offer a free 15-minute consultation. We can talk about what you need and go over cost questions before you decide anything.

Frequently asked questions