Therapy and Coaching for Healers and Care Workers
Are you a therapist, educator, medical provider, or care worker drowning in burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and exhaustion?
You might have arrived here carrying the heavy weight of grief, rage, fear, trauma, hopelessness, despair, or cynicism in the face of global crisis and suffering in our world today. Maybe you’ve come here feeling discouraged, disillusioned, or even disappointed in the field that you’re in. You might be struggling to balance caring for people you serve and yourself. In our fields, we are dominated by urgency, taught that we should accept martyrdom and self-sacrifice, encouraged to wear burnout like a badge of honor. But this isn’t the only way. You can do meaningful work in a way that is sustainable for you.
“We tend to the buried parts of human suffering, society, and global consciousness…we witness and metabolize the pain in society, the shadow parts of the collective.”—Jennifer Mullan, Decolonizing Therapy
Whether you’re a therapist, educator, care worker, or helping professional, this offering is for you.
This is a space to help you recover from burnout, self-doubt, compassion fatigue, moral injury, soul exhaustion, vicarious trauma, and identity loss. Through our work together, you will:
gain tools to recover from burnout, role strain, identity loss, moral injury, soul exhaustion, toxic guilt, and secondary traumatic stress
identify your gifts and opportunities for realignment, restore confidence in your skills, determine where to focus your efforts and energy strategically to best make an impact
deconstruct martyrdom, self-sacrifice, social and cultural pressures, and internalized oppression in your work
learn to recognize and avoid individualism, isolation, and build aligned relationships with colleagues and comrades,
gain practical self/community care strategies to help you be sustained in your work and preserve your longevity
confront impostor syndrome, politicize your practice and develop the courage you need to embody your values, and center justice and collective liberation in your work.
Experienced in supporting care providers through burnout and vicarious trauma working inside hospitals, clinics, outpatient care, residential treatment centers, public and alternative schools, community mental health, crisis centers, prisons and jails, I am intimately aware of the unique experiences faced by folks in these spaces who devote their lives to be in service to others.
Testimonials
“After years of protesting, community organizing and advocacy work, I started feeling cynical, burned out, and disillusioned. I was struggling to feel seen and heard in the movements, especially as a queer black woman. Working with Briana helped me shift lanes within the activism space and lean into my creativity, learn how to take breaks without feeling guilty, build community, find my voice and regain confidence in myself and my work."
— Jasmine
“Prior to working with Briana, I felt frustrated, stuck, disregarded, and like I was struggling to accept some deep wounds and hard truths. Now that I've been working with the intuitive genius that she is (because she truly is!), I'm on a path where I feel whole, grounded, capable, and empowered. This has been such a time of growth and excitement for me, and I credit Briana with helping me get here."
— Ana
“When I came to Briana, I was completely exhausted, hopeless, and experiencing burnout in my job. Briana helped me make significant changes in my life, leaving a job that didn’t align with my values and ideas, untangling beliefs around money, time, and productivity that were keeping me stuck and having the courage to a start new job doing work that was meaningful to me. Working with Briana was so inspiring and truly life changing."