Medical Professionals' Mental Health

Dr. Rachel Allen spent much of her career embedded in medical settings. Her postdoctoral fellowship at Cooper University Healthcare and years of practice at the Department of Veterans Affairs gave her direct working knowledge of the culture, pace, and pressures of healthcare work.

Her approach is direct, collaborative, and grounded in the mind-body connection. She draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), CBT-I for sleep, and Motivational Interviewing to help medical professionals move out of survival mode and back toward the reasons they went into the field in the first place.

What our work with medical professionals looks like

We take the specific demands of the field seriously. Our clinicians understand the healthcare environment and the concerns that come with seeking care as a licensed provider. Sessions are private-pay, out-of-network, and can be scheduled around clinical hours.

Depending on where you are, work may focus on:

• Burnout, moral injury, and the accumulated weight of years in the field
• Depression, anxiety, and traumatic stress specific to clinical practice
• Substance use, high-functioning drinking, or use patterns you have started to worry about
• Insomnia and disrupted sleep from shift work and on-call demands
• The identity and relational impact of a life shaped by medicine
• Concerns about licensure, disclosure, and confidentiality

Why it matters

Healthcare workers often wait until they are in crisis to reach out, in part because so few clinical spaces feel safe enough to be honest in. Structured, private, clinically rigorous therapy with a clinician who understands what your job actually is can change the trajectory long before things reach that point.