Therapy for Physicians & Healthcare Professionals.
Confidential therapy for physicians, doctors, & healthcare professionals in Columbus, Ohio and online throughout Ohio.
Does the work feel heavier than it used to?
You went into healthcare
to help people.
Nobody warned you how much of yourself you'd have to leave at the door. Or how hard it would become to find your way back.
You've held space for patients in crisis, worked through impossible situations with grace, and kept going when the system asked more than you had to give. You're good at your job. And you're exhausted.
Now, what you carry at work doesn't seem to stay there. The hard parts of the job have a way of following you home — into your sleep, into the quiet moments when there's nothing left to distract from how much it's taking out of you.
Counseling for physicians & healthcare workers in Ohio
There's a particular kind of loneliness that often comes with working in medicine. The people around you are going through the same thing but no one really talks about it. Asking for help can feel like admitting weakness or failure in a culture that rewards endurance and treats emotion as something to manage, not feel.
Through my work with healthcare professionals, I've come to understand the culture, the pressure, and the ethical weight of the work. And I know that what you're carrying isn't a personal failing. It's often a natural result of doing demanding work in a system that rarely prioritizes the people doing it.
Physician burnout & compassion fatigue
You may recognize yourself here.
These aren't signs that something is wrong with you. They're signs that you've been running on empty for a long time — and that you deserve support.
Struggling isn't a sign of weakness. It's an understandable response to doing difficult, high-stakes work in a system that often doesn't prioritize your wellbeing.
- You feel numb or disconnected during patient interactions that used to move you
- You replay difficult cases or traumatic events long after your shift ends
- Sleep is hard, your mind won't quiet, or you wake up already bracing with anxiety for the day ahead
- You feel resentful, cynical, or detached, and guilty for feeling that way
- You've thought about leaving medicine entirely, and the thought both terrifies and tempts you
- You know you need help but feel resistant, worried about stigma, confidentiality, or being judged
- Off the clock, you struggle to be present with your family, your interests, yourself
Struggling isn't a sign of weakness. It's an understandable response to doing difficult, high-stakes work in a system that often doesn't prioritize your wellbeing.
Counseling for physicians in Ohio
This isn't burnout you can fix with a vacation.
Healthcare workers are trained to push through, to manage, and to not let it show. Over time, that skill becomes a wall between you and your patients, between you and your own needs, and between you and the parts of life that once felt meaningful.
Compassion fatigue, moral injury, and chronic stress have a way of building quietly. They don't announce themselves and they often don't go away on their own. They accumulate in the background until one day you realize you're not quite yourself anymore. You can't pinpoint when it changed, but somewhere along the way you lost your connection to what brought you into healthcare in the first place.
There is still significant stigma around mental health support in medical culture, the concern about being seen as unfit, the worry about confidentiality, the sense that asking for help means you can't handle the job.
I want to be direct: seeking therapy is not a sign that you can't handle it. It's a sign that you understand what sustained, high-demand work does to a person and that you're choosing to take it seriously.
Working in healthcare means experiencing things that would be hard for anyone to carry, and you face them repeatedly. The goal isn't to feel nothing. It's to find a way to feel without losing yourself in the process.
Therapy offers something most healthcare professionals rarely get: dedicated time and space that is entirely yours. Not to be evaluated or advised, but to be heard and to start making sense of what you've been carrying. We go at your pace, follow what feels most relevant, and work together toward something that feels more like balance and less like survival.
My approach is trauma-informed and grounded in self-compassion. Sessions are flexible and responsive to your schedule. And you won't need to spend our time explaining the culture or the weight of the work. I have enough familiarity with healthcare to meet you there, while still holding space for what makes your experience uniquely yours.
Therapy for healthcare professionals in Columbus
When you’re ready to begin.
Reach Out
Connect through the contact form, or reach out directly by email or phone. Every message is read and responded to by Linnea personally.
Free Consultation
We'll meet for a complimentary consultation to talk about what's bringing you here, answer your questions, and see if working together feels like a good fit.
Begin Therapy
If it feels right, we'll schedule your first session — in person in Worthington or via telehealth across Ohio — and start building the support you're looking for.
You're in the right place
If you're ready to show up for yourself the way you show up for everyone else, this is for you.
I work with physicians, residents, nurses, advanced practice providers, and healthcare workers of all kinds. People who deserve to care for themselves and want support to keep doing this work without losing themselves in the process.
For many healthcare workers, reaching out feels like the hardest part. There's a voice that says you should be able to handle this, or that needing support means something is wrong with you. It doesn't.
You've spent your career showing up for other people. Reaching out is just showing up for yourself.
Take the first step
You showed up for everyone else.
This is for you.
Reach out and we can talk through what’s bringing you here.
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