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Compassion fatigue is real, and it can affect those whose professional calling centers on helping others. Psychologists, therapists, mental health workers, nurses and other healthcare providers may need help for burn-out, compassion fatigue or many other stressors and challenges in their lives.

If you are feeling exhausted – emotionally and physically – or are feeling numb to the pain and distress you are witnessing in the patients you serve, there is help available.

What you may be feeling

There is a cost of caring for other people, especially when they are in pain or significant distress. When self-care is neglected, you may feel an imbalance that impedes your ability to help others as fully as you may want to. Sometimes compassion fatigue emerges during a perfect storm of events that happen all at once. Some of the symptoms I typically see include:

Prioritize your emotional well-being

To continue helping other people, we need to seek care for ourselves. An objective, accepting professional can be a trusted resource, meet you where you are, and help you get to feeling more like yourself. We may talk about the mind-body connection and how it can affect our emotional health, boundaries we set to mitigate trauma we may witness in the course of our work, and practice coping and self-care. For these reasons, many healthcare colleagues have their own therapist to help them as part of their ongoing self-care process.

Ready to be a trusted partner

If you’re in need of a compassionate professional who is ready to partner with you to get your life back on track or to be your long-term resource, contact me at 512-627-3583 today. Find out more about my experience and my approach to therapeutic work.