Online Therapy for
Attending Physicians
in Ohio
Confidential online therapy for physicians navigating the responsibilities, pressures, and transitions of independent practice.
Becoming an attending physician is often viewed as the finish line after years of training. But reaching this stage doesn't necessarily make life easier. In many ways, it introduces an entirely new set of challenges.
The structure and supervision of training are gone. Decisions that were once reviewed with an attending are now yours to make. You may also be starting in a new clinic or health system, navigating unfamiliar expectations, supervising others, and facing productivity and administrative pressures you encountered less directly during training.
Therapy can provide a confidential place to work through these challenges while building a career and life that feel sustainable.
When the Responsibility Becomes Yours.
Greater autonomy can be rewarding, but it can also bring a different kind of pressure.
Even after years of training, you may find yourself wondering: Did I make the right decision? What if I missed something? Should I have handled that differently?
At the same time, becoming an attending may mean starting over professionally—learning a new system, establishing new relationships with colleagues and staff, adapting to productivity expectations, and supervising residents, fellows, medical students, or other members of the healthcare team.
You may be expected to function confidently and independently from day one, even while you're still figuring out how you want to practice.
Common Reasons Attending Physicians Seek Therapy:
Burnout, emotional exhaustion, or difficulty disconnecting from work
Stress and self-doubt related to independent practice
Difficult clinical decisions, medical errors, or adverse outcomes
Moral distress or frustration with the healthcare system
Leadership, supervision, or workplace challenges
Documentation, productivity, and administrative pressures
Difficulty setting boundaries or creating a sustainable relationship with work
Anxiety, depression, perfectionism, or imposter syndrome
Relationship or family strain related to medicine
Reconnecting with life, relationships, or interests after training
Career dissatisfaction or uncertainty about what comes next
Considering a job change, reduced clinical work, career pivot, or leaving medicine
ADHD, organization, or executive functioning difficulties
When Reaching the Goal Raises New Questions.
For years, there was always another milestone ahead: graduation, residency, fellowship, boards, or your first attending position.
Then you arrive.
Without the structure of training, you may have more space to ask what you actually want your career—and the rest of your life—to look like.
That may mean establishing healthier boundaries, reconnecting with relationships or interests that received less attention during training, deciding whether your current position is right for you, reducing clinical work, changing jobs, or questioning whether you want to practice medicine in the same way for the next several decades.
Therapy can provide space to explore these questions without needing to already know the answers.
How Therapy Can Help.
My approach is collaborative, practical, and goal-oriented. Therapy may involve responding differently to self-doubt, processing difficult clinical experiences, setting healthier boundaries, navigating leadership or workplace challenges, strengthening relationships, or making decisions about the next stage of your career.
The goal isn't simply to help you tolerate an unsustainable situation better. It's to help you determine what matters to you and build a professional and personal life that reflects it.
Confidential Therapy Independent of Your Employer. A Place to Talk Counseling is an independent private practice.
I am not affiliated with your employer, hospital, physician group, university, medical school, residency or fellowship program, or healthcare system.
This provides a separate place to speak openly about your work, colleagues, career, relationships, and personal concerns with a psychologist outside of the institutions where you practice.
Online Therapy for Attending Physicians Throughout Ohio. Therapy is provided entirely online to attending physicians throughout Ohio.
Whether you're adjusting to your first attending position, navigating an established career, reconsidering what you want from medicine, or simply looking for a place where you don't have to be the physician in the room, therapy can provide space to focus on you.
You spent years learning how to care for other people. Therapy can be a place to make room for your own well-being, relationships, and the life you want outside of medicine.
Note: I also see spouses and partners of attending physicians for individual therapy.