Kathryn Lawson (she/her/hers)

Burnout is a state of physical or emotional exhaustion (or both) that also involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity. It's important to note that solutions to burnout often involve changes in the external world and working environment. From a therapy standpoint, I work with burnout by helping clients identify the changes they would like to see, empowering and practicing advocacy, and using coping strategies in the interim.

Burnout is a state of physical or emotional exhaustion (or both) that also involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity. It's important to note that solutions to burnout often involve changes in the external world and working environment. From a therapy standpoint, I work with burnout by helping clients identify the changes they would like to see, empowering and practicing advocacy, and using coping strategies in the interim.

Burnout is a state of physical or emotional exhaustion (or both) that also involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity. It's important to note that solutions to burnout often involve changes in the external world and working environment. From a therapy standpoint, I work with burnout by helping clients identify the changes they would like to see, empowering and practicing advocacy, and using coping strategies in the interim.

Humans experience trauma reactions in reaction to trauma. The tautology is deliberate; I really want to underscore this. The reactions vary from individual to individual and situation to situation, with different emotions, intensities, and durations. But though these reactions may be expected, they are far from being accepted, particularly among healthcare professionals-many of whom are exposed routinely to death, severe illness, and human suffering.

Burnout is a state of physical or emotional exhaustion (or both) that also involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity. It's important to note that solutions to burnout often involve changes in the external world and working environment. From a therapy standpoint, I work with burnout by helping clients identify the changes they would like to see, reconnect with purpose and meaning, establish healthy boundaries, and use adaptive coping strategies.

Burnout is a state of physical or emotional exhaustion (or both) that also involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity. It's important to note that solutions to burnout often involve changes in the external world and working environment. From a therapy standpoint, I work with burnout by helping clients identify the changes they would like to see, empowering and practicing advocacy, and using coping strategies in the interim.

Disenfranchised grief refers to grief that is unacknowledged by others or by social norms. Many HCPs work in roles exposing them to intense and repeated loss. Since these losses are an expected part of the work, individuals can begin to feel that they should be able to take them in stride. But just because losses are expected, that doesn’t mean that they don’t hurt. Acknowledging and feeling your own grief in no way diminishes your compassion for the grief of others.