Mindful Soul Center for Wellbeing offers therapy for healthcare workers in New Jersey, now via telehealth in response to COVID-19.
There is a reason you sought out the healthcare profession. Maybe you are a natural helper, healer, or people-lover. You might have followed in the footsteps of other family members and proudly share a lineage of nurses or doctors. Or perhaps you are merely fascinated by the human body, biology, and science overall.
Regardless of what brought you to the healthcare profession, the global pandemic of COVID-19 brought new challenges to the lives of you and your fellow healthcare workers. Although the state of emergency might be over, you could be experiencing residual effects from the mental and emotional stress of your profession during the pandemic.
During the pandemic, healthcare workers had the extra concerns of:
- Being at higher risk of infection
- Bringing the virus home to family members
- Having to isolate or even live separately from loved ones (and sometimes their own children)
- Lack of PPE (Personal Protection Equipment)
- Facing impossible ethical decisions about patient care
- Support or lack of support from healthcare administration
- Being thrown in the middle of political debates
- Longer hours and more demanding shifts
- The lives of their patients and also of their coworkers
- The families of their patients
Healthcare Workers that worked through the pandemic could be experiencing PTSD Symptoms Today.
Healthcare workers and post-traumatic stress disorder is not exactly a new thing. Healthcare can be a highly stressful and often unpredictable work environment where workers are exposed to death, illness, violence, and any number of physically and emotionally volatile situations.
Symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder include increased anxiety, sleep disturbances, irritability, difficulty concentrating, dissociation, intrusive memories or thoughts, flashbacks, nightmares, avoidance (compartmentalizing one’s feelings and thoughts about what is happening), feeling numb or unable to experience positive emotions.
It is important to understand that not everyone’s response will look the same and each person is processing there stress differently.
“an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Mindful Soul has always treated a large number of healthcare workers here in South Jersey. With specialty areas in both women’s mental health and trauma, this is a group of people that we are highly committed to supporting.
We know that healthcare workers often take care of themselves last. We also know that seeking treatment from a mental health professional for whatever symptoms you are experiencing can improve your coping skills, help keep your nervous system regulated, and either prevent or help you recover from PTSD.
Support for Healthcare Organizations & Hospitals
Mindful Soul therapists are also available to support healthcare organizations and hospitals in caring for the well-being of their staff! Please contact our Director of Education, Sarah Temel, for more information at sarah@mindfulsoulwellbeing.com.
- G-Tep Workshops: G-Tep is an EMDR Protocol that brings the power of EMDR to groups of all sizes. G-Tep Workshops, either online or in person, can support a group of people with a shared traumatic experience.
- Custom-tailored support groups or workshops for staff
- Educational sessions and coaching for administrators on the effects of trauma on their employees and ways to support their staff
Want to schedule an appointment with one of our therapists? Visit the Contact Us Page to schedule a call with our Client Care Coordinator to get started!