You know how to take care of everyone else. Taking care of yourself is harder.

Therapy and mindfulness-based courses for physicians, healthcare professionals, people-pleasers, and perfectionists

In Columbus and Worthington, Ohio and Online Across Ohio

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You’ve built your life around being responsible—as a physician, caregiver, or simply the one everyone else leans on. Slowing down, asking for help, being kind to yourself? That’s unfamiliar territory.

You’re the capable one. The responsible one. The person others count on when things fall apart. You meet the high standards you set for yourself — and then set higher ones. You show up, push through, hold it together.

But something has shifted. And even though everything looks fine from the outside, you know it’s not.

  • You’re exhausted in a way that sleep doesn’t seem to fix

  • You can’t seem to relax, even when you’re off

  • Your inner critic is louder than ever

  • You feel guilty for wanting less — or for needing anything at all

  • You’re more irritable, detached, or emotionally flat than you used to be

  • You keep telling yourself you should be able to just handle it

For many, burnout and chronic stress doesn’t look like you don’t have it all together - it looks like functioning, while internally feeling exhausted and drained.

And yet the advice you keep getting is to be more resilient. Do more. Push harder.

You don’t need more productivity strategies or resilience trainings.

You need space to be human.

Two Ways to Work Together

Whether you’re seeking individualized support or a structured, skills-based program, both paths are grounded in research-backed strategies and practices.

Individual Counseling

In-person in Columbus & Worthington, Ohio · Online across Ohio

Therapy with me isn’t about just coping strategies or checking boxes. It’s a space to slow down, understand the patterns that keep you stuck, and start relating to yourself and stress differently.

We work with anxiety, burnout, trauma, perfectionism, and people-pleasing — and the deeper history and pressures that shape how you experience all of it. This is depth-oriented, collaborative work grounded in evidence-based psychotherapy, mindfulness, and self-compassion training.

This is not surface-level coping tools. It's support that shifts how you relate to yourself and to stress.

Mindfulness & Self-Compassion Courses

In-person in Columbus & Worthington, Ohio · Online across Ohio

If you prefer a structured, skills-based format — or simply aren't looking for individual therapy — courses offer practical, evidence-based tools in a supportive group setting.

Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) - An 8-week evidence-based course teaching practical tools to respond to stress, failure, and self-doubt with kindness, compassion, and mindfulness.

Self-Compassion for Healthcare Communities (SCHC) - A 6-hour course designed specifically for healthcare professionals navigating workplace stress and burnout.

Courses are available for individuals, healthcare teams, and organizations.

What makes this different

This is support that actually understands your world.

You've probably already tried pushing through. The books, the advice, telling yourself to be more resilient. And you're still exhausted, still hard on yourself, still wondering why it's so hard to just be okay.

The difference here isn't a technique or a program. It's an approach that actually starts with you — your history, your patterns, and the specific pressures of living in a high-responsibility role, whether that's medicine, caregiving, or simply being the person everyone else leans on. I understand what that world costs you. And I understand the quiet shame that makes asking for help feel like weakness rather than wisdom.

If any of this sounds familiar, you're in the right place.

Linnea Clouse, LPCC, LICDC, ATR-BC

There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from taking care of everyone else. You carry a lot — quietly, competently, and usually without complaint. And yet somehow, beneath all of it, there’s a voice that tells you it’s still not enough. That you should be grateful. That you have no right to complain.

That’s exactly who I work with.

I’m Linnea Clouse, a licensed counselor and mindfulness facilitator in Columbus, Ohio. My work integrates evidence-based therapy, mindfulness, and self-compassion to help capable, responsible adults build a genuinely different relationship with themselves — one that doesn’t require earning rest, justifying needs, or meeting impossible standards just to feel okay or like “I’m enough”.

Therapy with me is collaborative and grounded in science — with enough warmth and humor to make the hard work feel a little more human.

You deserve the same care you give to everyone else.

  • Therapy for Physicians & Healthcare Professionals - You're exceptional at caring for others. Learning to care for yourself is a different skill — and one worth developing.

  • Counseling for perfectionists & people-pleasers. High standards, constant self-criticism, never quite feeling like enough. There's a different way to relate to yourself.

  • Therapy for anxiety and stress. Overthinking, overplanning, never fully at rest. Therapy can help you find a calmer relationship with your own mind.

  • Therapy for trauma - Past experiences shape how we feel and function in ways we don't always recognize. Healing is possible.

Counseling Specialties

  • MSC - An 8-week evidence-based course teaching you to respond to stress and self-doubt with kindness rather than criticism.

  • MBSR is the gold standard in mindfulness-based programing. Teaches stress management through mindfulness and meditation.

  • SCHC - A 6 hour program that addresses the unique time constraints, workplace culture, and stressors of healthcare professionals.

Self-Compassion and Mindfulness-Based Courses

You’ve spent a long time putting everyone else first. This is where that changes.

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