Mental Health Support for High Performance Professionals 

Doctor. Marketing Manager. Professional Athlete. Nurse. Administrative Director. Accountant. Engineer. Pastor. Physical Therapist. Pharmacist. Supply Chain Manager. Social Worker. Lawyer. Scientist. Administrative Workers.

In the face of everything, you give your all. No matter your position in the healthcare system, the sacrifices that go unsaid and unseen are great. Talk with someone who understands.

The world outside of healthcare took notice to your needs, burdens and sacrifices weeks into the pandemic back in 2020. However, the seeds burnout, compassion fatigue and secondary trauma, post traumatic stress, anxiety, depression and more were planted WAY before COVID-19 began. The roots were planted when you began your careers. With the threat of many viral outbreaks that can put us right where we were in March 2020, anxieties can run high.

Caring for people when they are in the most vulnerable place in their lives is demanding, devastating and in the best circumstances rewarding beyond measure. Highs and lows of being a helper.

Provision 5 of the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses states, “The nurse owes the same duties to self as to others, including the responsibility to promote health and safety, preserve wholeness of character and integrity, maintain competence, and continue personal and professional growth.” Although this is specific to nurses, it’s imperative that all professions who are patient facing and patient adjacent know that this is applicable. You’re allowed to breathe and be human.

Here are some presenting problems that Blackwell can help you or the healthcare professional in your life manage:

• Sadness, depression, anxiety

• Imposter syndrome, isolation and irritability

• Instability in relationships, sleep disturbances

• Flashbacks, dissociation and slips in memory

• Unhealthy coping through impulsivity and/or substance use, alcohol use, shopping, sex, gambling