Offerings
From one-to-one sessions, dream work therapy, group work and more, I help to navigate nurses through the journey of recovery and inner healing from burnout, stress, and more.
Are You Caught In A Cycle Of Struggle?
Not feeling good about yourself?
Not feeling good about being a nurse?
Having a negative response to your workplace?
Having little time with family and friends, let alone yourself?
If you want to break this cycle, one of the best ways is through support that explores what will change this cycle for you. This change must be at an individual level for it to be sustainable.
- Being overworked and overwhelmed is normal for most nurses because of the physical and emotional realities they face daily.
- Our nervous systems respond to stressful clinical situations by going on high alert for extended periods of time, with hardly any recovery/restoration time. This can lead to a permanent state of dysregulation.
- Trauma-informed care teaches us to assess ourselves for symptoms of dysregulation and to act on addressing them. A lack of attention will only lead to normalizing the abnormal.
Are you feeling overworked in your nursing position?
What overwhelms you?
- Stress has become a normalized by-product of nursing in today’s healthcare climate.
- Many nurses are so tired at the end of their shift that this fatigue carries over into their home lives. Your job should not make you so tired that you don’t have any energy left after the workday.
- Stress and fatigue often become cumulative and are related to factors such as demanding work environments, inadequate staffing, mandated shift work, and toxic workplace cultures. Unless addressed, these will lead to a state of chronic stress and exhaustion.
What causes you the most stress in your nursing position?
What makes you the most tired from work?
- Chronic stress has been linked to major impacts on one’s life, such as burnout, unhealthy coping behaviours, and negative effects on nurses’ immune systems and quality of life.
- Chronic exhaustion can permeate every part of a nurse’s life, regardless of their role or workplace. The impact of this degree of fatigue shows up in various ways.
- Maybe some of the following look familiar to you:
- No energy to care for yourself, your loved ones, or anyone else
- Your time off is spent caregiving for loved ones, leaving less time for you
- Feeling too tired to go out and do the things you used to love to do
- Health issues such as weight gain, chronic pain, and high blood pressure, and more
The unfortunate part of this situation is that nurses are experiencing emotional depletion on a massive scale. This is very real and often related to the demands of their workplaces. This state has been normalized, leading nurses to feel apathetic about their role in health care. More importantly, it may impact the nurse’s self-worth.
Has your stress and exhaustion reached a chronic stage?
How do you know it has reached this stage?
My Offerings
One-to-One Sessions
As a dedicated nurse psychotherapist and transformational coach, I am committed to supporting your wellness and personal growth journey. I invite you to book a consultation with me to explore how we can work together to achieve your goals and foster meaningful change in your life.
Dream Work
Depending upon the client’s needs and interests in ways to explore life challenges, I offer dream work as one way to do this. Together, we can explore the profound messages your dreams are waiting to reveal. I offer dream work in one-to-one sessions and through scheduled Dream Groups.
Nurse Manager –
Specific Packages
I understand the unique challenges you face in your leadership roles. I invite you to book a consultation with me to explore how we can work together toward enhancing your managerial skills and personal growth, ensuring you lead with confidence, compassion… and, most importantly, self-compassion.
Advanced Practice Nurses -
Specific Packages
I warmly invite advanced practice nurses seeking to enhance their personal and professional growth. Book a consultation with me to embark on a transformative journey tailored to your unique needs.
Group Work
I offer scheduled group work sessions with specific topics throughout the year.
Dream Work:
I invite individuals seeking to delve into the realms of dream work to support personal and professional growth through group sessions. My approach is tailored to foster a supportive environment where clients can explore and understand their subconscious narratives, ultimately leading to transformative insights and life changes.
Personal & Professional Growth for Nurses:
Using transformative processes, I guide group members through a unique opportunity for self-discovery and development based on a specific 7-step process developed by a nurse for nurses!
I encourage you to book a consultation with me to discuss your interests and the benefits of group work. Together, we can embark on a journey towards achieving our fullest potential.
How My Process Works
Schedule Your Free Session
Book a free consultation and together we will assess your state, your goals, and we will embark on a healing journey together.
Discover Your Sustainable Solution
We work closely to identify your struggles and ensure your physical and emotional needs are being met through your bespoke plan.
Experience The Results
With dedication and compassion, you'll begin to experience clarity, calmness, self-awareness, and embrace your healing.
Find Out What
Self-Care Means For You & What Will Work For You.
People talk about “self-care practices” all the time. These practices are often not sustainable because they come from a cookie-cutter approach.
I work with my clients through deep inquiry and explore how to develop a healthy, sustainable, and resilient lifestyle despite the chaotic work environments in which they work.
Built on a specific 7-step process I have developed, coaching occurs in several ways, to support you to learn about the impact of your challenges and identify your strengths to meet those challenges to build a consistent self-care practice.
Read more about this program in my eBook. Click the button below.
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Specific Assessments
I’m trained in various psychotherapeutic and coaching methods and believe in an evidence-informed approach to my client’s work. Depending on your reasons for seeking support, I will ask you to complete assessments (done together or on your own for discussion in our first session). Based on your assessment outcomes, we’ll develop personalized strategies to guide your progress.
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Our Work Together
My extensive background in nursing, psychotherapy, and coaching informs my professional services. I am well-versed in various approaches, from solution-focused to positive psychology, applied neuroscience, narrative and health coaching and dream work interpretation. You are seeking support because you are in pain. But remember, everyone’s journey is unique. What works for one may not work for another. That’s why our work is tailored specifically to your needs and how you make the necessary changes. At the heart of our work is the understanding that you are unique as is your path to balance and well-being.
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Dream Work Interpretation
If clients want to explore their life’s challenges in this way, part of deep inquiry may involve interpretation of their dream work. Together, we can explore the profound messages dreams are waiting to reveal.
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Transformational Processes
I developed a 7-step framework after seeing several nurse clients and identified common patterns of struggle across these clients. However, this framework is a guideline, not a prescription! I guide my clients through a unique opportunity for self-discovery and development based on several activities that lead to positive changes in mindset, beliefs, and emotional healing. Learning new coping skills, discarding negative habits, overcoming fears, and developing resilience are all part of this self-discovery…it is possible!
Testimonials
What My Clients Say About Our Work Together
Our work together has helped me see that I can get that spark back for nursing. However, more importantly, I have that spark back in my home life. My work was consuming me…my thoughts about work consumed me so much. I couldn’t attend to myself much less anyone else, including my husband.
I have started to make some career decisions. I bet you are not surprised! I feel so good about the next part of my nursing story! I am feeling so much more confident. I am so appreciative of all you have taught me, your support, & most importantly supporting me to believe in myself.
Linda, you have a special gift, and I am truly honoured that you shared your wisdom, guidance and energy with me.
Holding space is a conscious act of being present, open, allowing and protective of what another needs in each moment. Linda is the personification of this phrase. Thoughtful questions and gentle guidance combined with sincere caring, and intuition lead me to new messages and understanding. I am more confident to take the next step and begin a new chapter. Thank you, Linda!