Therapy for physicians, nurses, PTs, OTs, and frontline healthcare workers in person in Denton, Texas and though telehealth across Texas

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an exhausted medical professional sitting on the floor

Showing up for patients all day and then walking through your own front door are starting to feel like two different jobs, and you’re running out of room to keep doing both.

I worked in law enforcement and alongside first responders for ten years. During COVID, I immediately recognized how much first responders and healthcare workers overlap in mental health needs. It’s usually why doctors choose me. They don’t have to explain what it’s like to make high-stakes calls and then walk through their own front door like nothing happened.

Healthcare Professionals I Work With

Physicians, any specialty: primary care, ER, hospitalists, OB-GYN, oncology, surgery
Nurses: bedside, ICU, ER, charge nurses, travelers, the ones who’ve been at it long enough to know what cumulative trauma actually looks like
PTs and OTs buried under production quotas, patient loads, and documentation that never stops
PAs and NPs carrying full clinical responsibility without always getting the institutional backup to match
Residents and fellows trying to function inside a training system that wasn’t built with anyone’s mental health in mind
Dentists carrying the weight of patient anxiety, production pressure, and the isolation of running a practice
Veterinarians dealing with the unique grief, compassion fatigue, and moral distress this field doesn’t talk about enough
Anyone in this field who looks fine on the outside and isn’t

What Brings Healthcare Workers to Therapy

You’re exhausted in a way sleep doesn’t touch
You’re going through the motions with patients now. You still care, but it’s getting harder to access, and that scares you
The work follows you home. Replaying calls, second-guessing decisions, waking up at 3am still running the shift
You’ve seen things that don’t leave. Bad codes. Patients you couldn’t save. Rooms you didn’t expect to be standing in
If you’re a vet, the euthanasias are starting to stack up in a way you didn’t expect, and the grief has nowhere to go
You’re shorter with your family than they deserve, because the patience ran out at work
Alcohol, sleep meds, or just working constantly has become how you cope
You’re thinking about leaving the field, not because you don’t love it, but because you’re not sure you can keep doing it like this
The licensing concern is always sitting there in the back of your head when someone brings up therapy

Forty-two percent of physicians report burnout symptoms, and a third work seven days a week with no day off, a pace that isn’t sustainable for anyone, no matter how good you are at your job. Emergency medicine runs highest at 63%, with OB-GYN, oncology, and pediatrics close behind. Female physicians carry a suicide risk 53% higher than their non-physician peers, and ER staff show PTSD rates around 1 in 5, in the range of estimates for combat veterans. Nearly half of all physicians know a colleague who wouldn’t seek mental health care, even though most of us know someone in this field who’s considered or attempted suicide. None of this means something’s wrong with you. It means the system hasn’t caught up to what it actually costs to do this job.

How I Help Healthcare Professionals

I keep it direct. Not here to hand you more to manage, here to help you get traction on what’s actually going on, figure out what’s underneath it, and figure out what you want outside of the job.

I’m also genuinely into the science side of this: neuroscience, sleep, nutrition, fitness, and how all of it either holds you together or quietly takes you apart under chronic stress. If you work nights, rotating shifts, or anything that’s wrecked your circadian rhythm, that’s not a footnote in our work, it’s often the actual problem. Most mental health advice assumes a normal sleep schedule. I don’t.

Acute burnout, occupational trauma, a full crisis of meaning about your career, I got you.

About Jay

Ten years in law enforcement and the military, and over 15 years experience in mental health .

When COVID hit, I saw it immediately: healthcare workers were carrying the same things I’d already spent years working with in law enforcement and first responders. The suppression, the trauma stacking up shift after shift, the expectation that you just keep functioning. I started specializing in mental health for frontline healthcare workers right then, and I have not stopped.

I work with surgeons, ER doctors, physicians, allied health professionals, nurses, and every kind of healthcare worker in between, all across Texas. Based in Denton, seeing clients in person here and via telehealth statewide.