You spend your days caring for other people, making decisions under pressure, and staying steady when someone else needs you. But after a while, it can become difficult to leave that responsibility at work. Stress, difficult patient experiences, long shifts, perfectionism, grief, or simply being "the strong one" can follow you home.
At Steady Hope Counseling, our Atlanta therapists for healthcare workers offer a place where you don't have to be the one holding everything together. Whether you're experiencing burnout, anxiety, secondary trauma, or changes in your relationships and identity, therapy can help you care for yourself with the same attention you give others.
Meet our Atlanta therapists for healthcare workers
Phylicia Clemons
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Good fit for: Healthcare professionals, caregivers, trauma recovery, stress management, anxiety, perfectionism, life transitions
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Credentials: Associate Professional Counselor #APC011420
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Clientele: Adolescents ages 12+, young adults, adults, helping professionals, and caregivers
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Location: Decatur, GA
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Virtual therapy: Yes (GA)
Phylicia brings more than 15 years of professional experience in healthcare, including work in healthcare administration and quality improvement across clinical settings. She understands how demanding systems, responsibility, perfectionism, and constant problem-solving can affect the person behind the professional role. Her trauma-informed approach also draws from CBT, attachment theory, mind-body work, and EMDR training to help clients move out of survival mode and feel more grounded.
Jenny Romano
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Good fit for: Women in healthcare, grief and loss, trauma, maternal mental health, life transitions, stress and anxiety
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Credentials: Licensed Professional Counselor #013224 and National Certified Counselor #1232714
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Clientele: Adults 18+
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Location: Decatur, GA
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Virtual therapy: Yes (GA)
Jenny may be a particularly good fit for healthcare professionals who are compassionate and capable on the outside but exhausted from holding so much internally. She combines trauma- and attachment-informed therapy with IFS, CBT, DBT, and somatic interventions, creating space to slow down and reconnect with what your mind and body may have been pushing aside. Her experience with grief, trauma, and major life transitions can also be helpful when work-related stress overlaps with loss, motherhood, or changes in identity.
Jessica Pentsil
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Good fit for: Burnout, stress management, anxiety, ADHD, leadership pressure, life transitions, emotional fatigue
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Credentials: Licensed Professional Counselor #016838
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Clientele: Adults
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Location: Decatur, GA
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Virtual therapy: Yes (GA)
Jessica understands the exhaustion that can come from being responsible for other people. Her background includes case management, outpatient recovery, nonprofit work, and supporting people in service-oriented leadership roles, giving her insight into burnout and emotional fatigue. She takes a practical, strengths-based approach to helping clients identify their needs, establish priorities, create boundaries, and find a way forward when constant demands have left little room for themselves.
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Kim DeRamus Lareau
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Good fit for: Helping professionals, high-achieving anxiety, trauma, grief, maternal mental health, life transitions, identity concerns
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Credentials: Licensed Professional Counselor #007839, Certified Professional Counselor Supervisor, Perinatal Mental Health-Certified
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Clientele: Adults and couples
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Location: Decatur, GA
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Virtual therapy: Available in GA, FL, and SC
Kim has worked as a counselor since 2011 and specifically identifies helping professionals and people with high-achieving anxiety among her areas of focus. Her attachment-based, trauma-informed approach can be particularly helpful for healthcare professionals whose competence and drive have become tied to perfectionism, overfunctioning, or difficulty stepping away from work. She emphasizes a collaborative therapeutic relationship where there’s room to explore who you are outside of what you accomplish or provide for others.
Lauren Jarrell
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Good fit for: Trauma, anxiety, depression, boundaries, family conflict, attachment concerns, coping skills
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Credentials: Licensed Professional Counselor #LPC017050
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Clientele: Adolescents, young adults, and adults
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Location: Decatur, GA
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Virtual therapy: Yes (GA)
Lauren's experience in diverse healthcare settings gives her a firsthand appreciation for the importance of prevention, coping, and caring for yourself before stress becomes overwhelming. She also has experience in psychiatric residential treatment working with trauma and suicidality and is trained in EMDR, making her a strong option for professionals carrying difficult experiences from inside or outside the workplace. Her collaborative approach helps clients understand their reactions in context while strengthening boundaries, resilience, and healthier ways to cope.
Common reasons healthcare workers seek therapy
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You feel emotionally drained after your shifts, even when you technically have time to rest.
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You have trouble turning off "work mode" once you get home.
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You replay difficult cases, mistakes, or decisions long after your shift ends.
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You feel responsible for everyone and struggle to ask for support yourself.
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You have become more irritable, detached, anxious, or numb.
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You feel guilty setting limits because patients or coworkers still need help.
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You put enormous pressure on yourself to get everything right.
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You’re struggling after witnessing illness, injury, death, or other distressing events.
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Staffing shortages, documentation, administrative demands, or workplace culture have left you frustrated and depleted.
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Your relationships are being affected because there is little energy left after work.
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You question whether you still want to stay in healthcare.
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You have accomplished what you worked toward professionally but feel disconnected from yourself outside your career.
How therapy for healthcare workers can help
Process what you carry home
Recognize burnout before everything feels exhausting
Create boundaries without losing your compassion
Reconnect with who you are outside of work
Healthcare professionals are often expected to move quickly from one difficult moment to the next. There may not be time during a shift to fully process a frightening patient situation, a death, an ethical dilemma, conflict with a coworker, or the emotional impact of caring for people in pain. Therapy for healthcare workers in Atlanta gives you dedicated space to make sense of those experiences instead of continually compartmentalizing them.
Burnout can show up as more than feeling tired. You may notice that you have less patience, dread going to work, feel cynical or detached, or struggle to recover between shifts.
An Atlanta therapist for healthcare workers can help you understand what is draining your capacity and identify realistic changes that support your mental health, even when changing jobs, reducing hours, or taking a long break is not immediately possible.
Caring deeply about patients doesn’t require unlimited emotional availability. Atlanta therapy for healthcare workers can help you explore boundaries around work, coworkers, patients, family, and technology. The goal is not to care less. It’s to find ways of caring that leave enough of you available for your own life, too.
Healthcare careers often require years of education, training, sacrifice, and commitment. Over time, your professional identity can become such a large part of life that it’s difficult to know who you are without your role. Therapy for healthcare professionals offers space to reconnect with relationships, interests, values, needs, and parts of yourself that may have received less attention while you focused on caring for others.