Robyn Sevigny, LMFT
Specialized Mental Health Support for Healthcare Workers Who Give Everything to Others
As a healthcare professional, you've built your life around healing others. But who helps the helper when compassion fatigue sets in, when burnout becomes your baseline, or when past trauma collides with present stress? I provide specialized online therapy for medical professionals throughout California, offering a confidential space where physicians, nurses, and healthcare workers can finally prioritize their own mental health.
If you're reading this, you likely excel at managing crisis after crisis at work, yet struggle with anxiety, emotional exhaustion, or disconnection in your personal life. You appear strong and capable to colleagues, but privately battle with mental health concerns that feel increasingly difficult to ignore. The very traits that make you exceptional in healthcare—your ability to compartmentalize, your drive for perfection, your capacity to function under pressure—may be the same mechanisms preventing you from seeking the professional support you need.
Understanding Your Unique Mental Health Challenges
Healthcare professionals face mental health challenges unlike any other profession. Long hours, life-or-death decisions, vicarious trauma from patient care, and the emotional weight of human suffering create a perfect storm for burnout and compassion fatigue. Add to this the unspoken rule in the healthcare industry that vulnerability equals weakness, and you have a recipe for silent suffering.
Many medical professionals I work with describe feeling trapped between two worlds. At work, you're the composed physician making critical decisions, the steady nurse patients rely on, or the dedicated healthcare worker who never shows cracks. At home, you might experience:
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Overwhelming anxiety that rest doesn't relieve
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Physical symptoms of chronic stress
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Emotional numbness or sudden emotional flooding
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Intrusive memories from difficult cases
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Relationship struggles due to emotional unavailability
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Persistent self-doubt despite professional competence
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Growing cynicism about work you once found meaningful
These aren't signs of weakness or professional inadequacy. They're natural responses to the unique stressors healthcare workers face daily, often compounded by unresolved personal trauma that may have drawn you to the healing profession in the first place.
My Integrative Approach to Therapy for Healthcare Professionals
I understand the medical world intimately—not just its rewards but its hidden costs. Rather than using a one-size-fits-all method, I draw from several powerful modalities to support your healing. My integrative therapy services are designed specifically for high-achieving healthcare professionals who need personalized mental health treatment that honors both their professional identity and their humanity.
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What Integrative Therapy Means for You
My approach weaves together five complementary therapeutic strategies, each selected for its effectiveness with medical professionals facing trauma, burnout, and complex mental health concerns:
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EMDR Therapy Helps you process trauma, anxiety, and emotional pain without having to relive every detail. It's a gentle yet effective way to reduce symptoms and restore balance. EMDR is particularly powerful for:
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Reducing intrusive memories from patient deaths or medical emergencies
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Processing vicarious trauma accumulated over years of patient care
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Addressing childhood experiences that created patterns of over-functioning
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Alleviating physical symptoms of stored trauma
Parts Work (IFS-Informed) We explore the different "parts" of you—like the inner critic, the perfectionist, or the protector—and help them work together instead of against each other. This builds self-compassion and emotional clarity. Through parts work, healthcare professionals learn to:
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Identify protective parts that help you survive in healthcare
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Access exiled parts holding pain or unmet needs
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Develop compassion for all aspects of yourself
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Create internal balance supporting both professional excellence and personal well-being
Skills Building You'll learn practical tools to manage stress, set boundaries, regulate emotions, and communicate more effectively. These aren't just coping strategies—they're life-enhancing skills that transform how you navigate both professional and personal challenges. Skills building focuses on sustainable practices that fit within demanding healthcare schedules.
Emotion Processing Together, we'll create a safe space to feel, understand, and release emotions that have been buried or overwhelming. You'll learn how to stay grounded even when things feel intense. For healthcare workers who've learned to compartmentalize feelings, this gentle approach helps reconnect with emotional experiences without becoming overwhelmed.
Symptom Reduction & Nervous System Support Whether you're dealing with anxiety, burnout, or trauma responses, we'll work to calm your nervous system and reduce distressing symptoms so you can feel more like yourself again. This includes somatic approaches that address how stress and trauma live in the body, helping healthcare professionals find genuine relief from physical and emotional exhaustion.
​What Makes My Integrative Therapy Practice Different
Unlike generic therapy services or one-size-fits-all approaches, I provide personalized, integrative support tailored to each healthcare worker's unique needs. I don't just understand burnout theoretically—I understand the specific pressures of shift work, the weight of clinical responsibility, and the isolation of being everyone's rock while feeling unable to seek support yourself.
My integrative online therapy practice offers:
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A personalized blend of therapeutic approaches adapted to your specific needs
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Complete confidentiality without risk of encountering patients or colleagues
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Flexible scheduling accommodating unpredictable medical schedules
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A judgment-free space where vulnerability is strength, not weakness
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Evidence-based approaches woven together for comprehensive healing
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Understanding of healthcare culture without need for extensive explanation
I work with physicians, nurses, psychologists, and other medical providers throughout California, including healthcare professionals in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento. Through secure online sessions, you receive personalized mental health treatment that addresses not just symptoms but the whole person—your nervous system, your emotional life, your relationships, and your sense of purpose.
How Integrative Therapy Can Transform Your Life
This isn't just about feeling "better." It's about building a life that feels aligned, fulfilling, and emotionally secure. My goal is to help you reconnect with your inner wisdom, reclaim your energy, and create relationships that nourish rather than drain you.
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Healthcare workers who engage in this integrative approach to therapy report profound changes extending far beyond symptom relief:
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Reclaim Your Emotional Life Move beyond numbness or reactivity to experience genuine emotional balance. Through emotion processing and nervous system support, you'll feel joy again without guilt, set boundaries without anxiety, and access emotions without being overwhelmed by them.
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Heal from Accumulated Trauma Process years of vicarious trauma, difficult patient outcomes, and personal experiences affecting your mental health. Through EMDR and trauma-informed approaches, reduce the emotional charge of memories that currently trigger stress responses while building resilience for future challenges.
Develop Sustainable Self-Care Practices Through skills building and nervous system regulation, learn practical strategies for managing compassion fatigue while maintaining empathy for patients. Integrate mindfulness practices, stress management techniques, and work-life balance strategies that actually work within demanding healthcare schedules.
Reconnect with Your Inner Wisdom Beyond the constant noise of medical demands and others' needs, rediscover your own intuitive knowing. Learn to trust your internal guidance system and make decisions from a place of clarity rather than exhaustion or obligation.
Create Nourishing Relationships As you develop greater emotional availability through parts work and emotion processing, watch your personal relationships transform. Many healthcare professionals find that this integrative approach naturally improves connections with partners, family, and friends, creating relationships that energize rather than deplete.
Build an Aligned Life Move beyond surviving to thriving. Create a life where your professional excellence coexists with personal fulfillment, where caring for others doesn't require abandoning yourself, and where success includes emotional well-being alongside career achievements.
Your Journey Begins with a Complimentary Consultation
I offer a free 20-minute consultation because finding the right therapeutic fit is essential. During this conversation, we'll discuss what's bringing you to therapy and whether my approach aligns with your needs. This isn't about convincing you that you need help—if you're considering therapy, something deserves attention. It's about ensuring I'm the right person to support your healing journey.
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What to Expect in Our Integrative Work Together
First Session: Building Foundation Our initial session explores what led you to seek support, your experiences in healthcare, and your hopes for therapy. We'll discuss your history at a pace that feels comfortable, with no pressure to share everything immediately. Together, we'll begin identifying which combination of therapeutic approaches—EMDR, parts work, skills building, emotion processing, or nervous system support—will best serve your unique needs.
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Ongoing Sessions: Collaborative Healing Each 50-55 minute session is guided by what feels most present for you. Some weeks might focus on processing difficult cases through EMDR, while others might involve parts work to understand internal conflicts, or skills building for boundary-setting. This integrative approach means we can fluidly adapt to your evolving needs, always meeting you where you are while supporting your growth toward where you want to be.
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Progress and Growth We'll periodically review your goals and celebrate progress, whether that looks like improved nervous system regulation, setting boundaries without guilt, or simply feeling more connected to your inner wisdom. Therapy isn't about becoming a different person—it's about reclaiming parts of yourself that the demands of healthcare may have forced underground and building a life that feels truly aligned with who you are.
Why Healthcare Professionals Choose My Integrative Practice
Medical professionals seeking therapy need more than generic mental health services or rigid treatment protocols. You need a therapist who understands that your struggles aren't character flaws but natural responses to extraordinary circumstances. You need someone who recognizes that seeking help requires particular courage when your identity is built around being the helper.
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I provide that understanding through an integrative approach that adapts to your unique needs. Rather than forcing you into a one-size-fits-all model, I weave together EMDR, parts work, skills building, emotion processing, and nervous system support to create a personalized healing journey. This comprehensive approach addresses not just symptoms but helps you build a life that feels aligned, fulfilling, and emotionally secure—where professional excellence coexists with personal well-being.
Take the First Step Toward Your Own Healing
You don't have to keep pushing through. You deserve support that meets you where you are and helps you grow into where you want to be. You've spent years, perhaps decades, prioritizing everyone else's well-being, absorbing others' pain, and maintaining composure when everything felt chaotic. Now it's time to prioritize your own mental health—not as a luxury but as a necessity for sustainable practice and personal fulfillment.
Seeking therapy doesn't mean you're weak or failing. It means you're wise enough to recognize that even healers need healing. The same insight, dedication, and courage that make you exceptional in healthcare can support your own therapeutic journey toward a life that feels aligned, fulfilling, and emotionally secure.
If you're ready to explore how therapy can support your mental health and overall well-being, I invite you to reach out. Whether you're struggling with burnout, processing trauma, or simply feeling disconnected from yourself, specialized support is available.
Contact me today to schedule your complimentary 20-minute consultation. Together, we'll discuss your needs and determine whether my approach feels right for you. Your journey toward healing, balance, and renewed purpose can begin whenever you're ready.
Reach out to learn more about how therapy for medical professionals can transform both your personal life and your professional practice. You don't have to continue carrying everything alone—professional support designed specifically for healthcare workers is just one conversation away.