Helping healthcare professionals

burnout, workplace trauma, and healthcare specific issues

Specialized in Working with Healthcare Providers

Learn tools and strategies

Build Coping Agenda

Process Workplace trauma

Set Boundaries

Create balance

Career Change

Nurses, Physicians, and allied healthcare professionals

Specialized Treatment

The need of therapy for healthcare workers is significant, given the unique challenges and stressors that come with working with AHS.

Nurses and healthcare professionals regularly deal with high-pressure patient situations, l8, 12, and 16 hour shifts characterized by staffing shortages, hostile work environments, and minimal resources to complete job tasks.

The chronic emotional toll comes at a cost. Burnout, anxiety, depression, and other mental health concerns are very real health concerns, specifically for these professionals.

Therapy for healthcare workers take a specialized approach – tailored to the specific lifestyle and needs of nurses and healthcare professionals, at different points in their careers. Therapy can provide them with the tools and support they need to manage these challenges and improve their overall well-being.

The Burnout Triad

People Pleasers

The ones that put others before themselves – those that love big, and give other people their all. Those that go above and beyond for others – but find that it is time that they need to pour a little more care into themselves.

People pleasers don’t know how to say know, they don’t know how to set boundaries, and they don’t know when to say, “enough is enough.”

Perfectionists

Attention is in the details, and the details must be 100%! Perfectionists give their full effort in the demands of life – whether it be personal or professional domains. Perfectionists demand a high standard of themselves – and often accept nothing less than this. Mission Hill Psychology provides counselling services to individual adults and has specialized interest in burnout syndrome.

High Achievers

The sky is the limit – but those limits don’t exist. High achievers often raise themselves to great success due to their boundless limits on what they can do – however, they crumble under their impossible standards and striving for excellence. The constant striving for the best of the best can wear you down – emotionally, physically, and psychologically. You can never be enough – for others, or for yourself.

challenges in healthcare

Demanding physical work, including long shifts (12+ hours), disruption to sleep schedule due to inconsistent and unpredictable shifts
Exhaustion associated with required overtime Unpredictable intensity of on-call work.
Interpersonal conflict in the workplace with colleagues and employers.
Extremely stressful and emotional situations in caring for their patients.
Continual exposure to human suffering and witnessing death.
Experiencing moral injuries.
Lack of meaningful support from non-medical professionals, such as family and friends, in the understanding of the realities of their job.

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Mission Hill Psychology provides therapy and counseling online throughout Edmonton, red deer, Fort McMurray, Calgary, and throughout Alberta. We specialize in treating burnout syndrome, anxiety, depression, trauma, and stress management. We offer compassionate and evidence placed approaches to support you in your journey towards healing and mental well-being.