Coaching for physicians facing stress, burnout, and professional reorientation

Challenges exist ...

In their training, health professionals learn exactly how to support other people. But nobody teaches them how to support themselves. Moreover, many of them regard seeking for help from the outside as a kind of weakness. 

As a result, it’s not rare that ... :

• They may start feeling constantly tired, while the time to regenerate between two shifts seems less and less sufficient.

• They may start noticing how addictive behaviour takes over (like over-eating, alcohol or medication) and, while they say “I can stop it at any time!”, they actually have difficulty doing it.

• They may become a short tempered person and, though they try to avoid it, it sometimes happens that they scream in their job -at colleagues, at patients - or at home - at their partner or children.

• They experience frustration or listlessness. They feel easily annoyed with patients or they miss the joy and the enthusiasm they once had for our job.

• Worries and anxieties overpower them sometimes, regardless whether it is about the job or their private life.

• Some may become known as a buffoon, as someone who is always loud and funny and has a cynical humour but deep inside something significant is missing.

In my case, it was quite extreme. The exhaustion led to a spontaneous pneumothorax, which took me completely by surprise.

It is true that that happened at a time of massive exaggeration of night shifts and additional jobs, like being a trainer for emergency courses as an ERC instructor or working as a doctor in an ambulance-jet in addition to my main job. But isn’t the regular health professional in a similar situation, one way or another? 

... to be solved:

My experience is that things don’t have to be this way. In my life’s journey, I was lucky to discover the incredible power of our subconscious to resource, heal and refresh us. As we learn to harness this power, we can become masters of our resources and hence, of our wellbeing. 

What is exactly the power of our subconscious?

I have learned that all resources and capabilities to find the right solution(s) for the challenges in life are stored inside each of us. Due to the circumstances in life it often happens that we forget these solutions or don’t see them - though, they are still there. 

For example, the capability to regenerate lies in our subconscious. And in fact, to connect with our subconscious is already regenerative itself. 

Real relaxation has a regenerative and healing effect, this is scientifically proven. But most of us have simply forgotten how to deeply relax. Often we mistake exhaustion after sport or distraction by surfing in the internet with relaxation, but is is not, because it does not reach our subconscious and with this stays superficial. 

Another example is with our general state of being: anxiety, anger, frustration and stress are also stored in our subconscious, regardless whether we are aware of it or not. In order to get an understanding of it, it is necessary to connect to the subconscious. 

Not everyone needs psychotherapy

My approach is that of teaching Self-Support. Once done early enough, this can be an enormous help before any issues become chronic.

What happens during the sessions?

During the sessions we will talk about stress moments and analyse them, we will develop together solutions and you will learn techniques of relaxation, taken from self-hypnosis and meditation. By this, you will deeply explore and improve your resilience. “Homework”will support this process. 

And this is the way to keep your joy, regardless the stress, in these great jobs, where you are working with other people.

Where will this happen?

The individual sessions will happen either online or, in case there are several clients, at your place (or alternating online and your place). 

Who is this for?

This offer is meant for hospitals and similar institutions, and of course, individuals are welcome to contact me too.