IFS + Brainspotting Therapy Intensives for Medical Professionals
You've spent your career caring for others. Now it's your turn.
For doctors, surgeons, emergency physicians and healthcare leaders ready to do the deep work — online worldwide, or in-person retreat in Southeast Asia.
You chose medicine because you wanted to help people. What nobody prepared you for was the cost.
The training was brutal: years of sleep deprivation, high-stakes decisions, and a culture that rewarded stoicism and punished vulnerability. You learned early to compartmentalise, to push through, to be the one who holds it together when everything is falling apart.
And you've done that, brilliantly, for years.
But something has shifted. The resilience that got you here is wearing thin. You're carrying more than you can process: the cases that didn't go the way you hoped, the system failures, the patients you couldn't save, the cumulative weight of bearing witness to suffering, day after day, year after year.
Maybe you're burned out. Maybe you're struggling with anxiety, hypervigilance, or a growing sense of numbness. Maybe you know, somewhere deep down, that what you're experiencing isn't just tiredness. It's trauma.
And the hardest part? You're the one people come to for help. Asking for it yourself feels almost impossible.
A one-hour session and then straight back on call isn't going to cut it. It's time to make yourself available to you.
Burnout in medicine is not a personal failing
Let’s be clear: physician burnout is a systemic wound, not a weakness. Understanding that intellectually doesn’t make it hurt less.
You may be experIencing
Emotional exhaustion and a creeping detachment from patients you used to love caring for
Compassion fatigue that bleeds into your personal life
Dread before shifts, difficulty switching off, or a numbness that worries you
A fractured sense of identity. Who are you when you’re not Doctor?
Intrusive memories of difficult cases, unexpected losses, or traumatic clinical events
Moral injury: the pain of being asked to act against your values, or watching a system fail your patients
Physical depletion that sleep doesn’t fix
You don’t need a holiday. You need deep, targeted healing and you need it to work.
Why the intensive format works especially well for doctors
Weekly therapy is hard to sustain when you’re working unpredictable hours, managing on-call rotas, or carrying the kind of mental load that medicine demands. The idea of a 50-minute appointment every Tuesday, indefinitely, can feel like one more thing on an impossible list.
An intensive is different. You block out a focused period of time, typically two to six days, and we do deep, concentrated work together. No weekly commitment. No drip-feed. Just a dedicated container where you are the patient, the healing is the priority, and everything else waits.
Doctors are trained to optimise. Intensive retreats are, neurologically, the most efficient healing format available. When your brain and body are freed from survival mode, from the pager, the rota, the responsibility, healing moves at an extraordinary pace. And it sticks.
In a condensed, immersive environment, we’re not just talking about change. We’re rewiring it into your system in real time.
The trauma nobody talks about in medicine
Medicine has a culture problem. Vulnerability is still too often seen as weakness. Asking for help can feel career-threatening. And the sheer volume of difficult experiences, from the intensity of training through to the relentlessness of clinical practice, means that many doctors are carrying unprocessed trauma they have never had the space to address.
Emergency physicians carry this particularly acutely. The cumulative trauma of high-acuity work, critical decisions under pressure, and repeated exposure to death and suffering creates a particular kind of burden that standard wellbeing resources rarely touch.
This is not weakness. This is what happens when a system extracts everything from the people inside it and gives very little back.
❋ how we workUsing IFS and Brainspotting in combination, we work at the level of both the parts of you that have been protecting you, the ones that learned to push through, shut down, and keep going, and the body-held trauma that talking alone cannot reach.
Brainspotting is particularly powerful for the kind of trauma that medical professionals carry: cumulative, often non-verbal, held in the nervous system. It allows your system to process and release what it has been holding, often quickly and at a depth that surprises people. It was developed by Dr David Grand and has a strong and growing evidence base for complex and developmental trauma.
IFS helps us understand the inner architecture that developed in response to medical culture and training: the perfectionist part, the part that can’t rest, the part that is terrified of making a mistake. We meet these parts with curiosity rather than trying to override them, and help them unburden what they’ve been carrying.
Together, in an intensive format, the results can be profound.
You can expect:
Intensive, attuned and unhurried sessions tailored to the way a medically-trained, analytical mind processes experience
Deep pre-work completed around your schedule before we meet, so we hit the ground running
A confidential, zero-judgment space. No colleagues, no professional persona required
Integration time woven throughout, so the shifts you make are lasting and anchored in your system
I’m here to help with:
+ career decisions
+ Grief & loss
+ Self-esteem
+ Identity
+ Anxiety
+ depression
+ Dating
+ Relationships
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…then let’s get to work.
because, At the end of the day:
investing in your own wellbeing can change everything.
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