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
You can be surrounded by colleagues all day and still feel completely alone in it. 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, from years of sitting with people who live it every day.
Physician burnout & compassion fatigue
You may recognize yourself here.
Every job carries its own occupational hazards. In healthcare, that includes things like burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary trauma. Here's what that can look like:
This kind of work would wear anyone down eventually, especially in a system that often doesn't prioritize the people doing it.
- You feel numb or disconnected during patient interactions that used to move you
- You replay a bad outcome or critical incident for weeks, running through what you could have done differently
- The fear of a complaint, a lawsuit, or a review board follows you even when you've done nothing wrong
- 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
This kind of work would wear anyone down eventually, especially in a system that often doesn't prioritize the people doing it.
Online therapy 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. A patient you couldn't save, or a moment that turns traumatic in an instant, doesn't leave just because the shift does.
Compassion fatigue, moral injury, and chronic stress tend to build without you noticing at first. There's rarely one moment that marks when it started, and they don't often resolve on their own. They accumulate 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. In-person sessions take place in a private office with no exterior signage, and the waiting room is private to my practice alone, not shared with other providers. And for physicians who'd rather not leave the house at all, online therapy offers another layer of privacy: no waiting room, no risk of running into a colleague or patient on the way in.
Seeking therapy means you understand what sustained, high-demand work does to a person, and that you're taking it seriously enough to do something about it.
Working in healthcare means experiencing things that would be hard for anyone to carry, and you face them repeatedly. There's a way to feel this work without it costing you everything else.
Therapy offers something most healthcare professionals rarely get: dedicated time and space that is entirely yours. A space to be heard, not evaluated or advised, where you can 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 draws on evidence-based methods including CBT and EMDR, chosen based on what's actually going on for you, all grounded in trauma-informed care and self-compassion. I also teach Self-Compassion for Healthcare Communities (SCHC), a self-compassion course built specifically for people in medicine, if a group-based option ever feels like the right fit alongside or instead of individual therapy.
I understand that physician and healthcare schedules come with on-call shifts, long hours, and changes that happen with little notice, so we work around what's actually realistic for you rather than the other way around. For many physicians and healthcare professionals, online counseling makes that even easier: telehealth sessions are available anywhere in Ohio, so care doesn't have to compete with a commute on top of everything else. But if in-person is what you prefer, I'm just as flexible there. 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 take care of yourself too, this is for you.
I've worked with many different healthcare professionals, including physicians, residents, nurses, and advanced practice providers, and I've seen firsthand how much this work follows you home. Surgeons replaying a single complication for months. ER physicians who can't quite leave a shift behind and lean on a drink to unwind more than they'd like to admit. ICU physicians who feel a wave of dread before every shift starts. OB-GYNs who can't stop imagining what could go wrong, especially on call. Whatever your specialty or role, if any of that sounds familiar, this is for you. You deserve to care for yourself too, and to keep doing this work without losing yourself in the process.
For many healthcare workers, reaching out is the hardest part, and that's okay. You've spent your career taking care of other people. Reaching out is how you start taking care of yourself too.
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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