About Becoming Mindful
PACFA-registered Clinical Counsellor and psychotherapist, Natalie Harman has extensive experience and an unrivalled understanding of hospital workplace culture.
Unrivalled Cultural Awareness of
Hospital Workplaces
Becoming Mindful delivers tailored programs which include individual counselling and coaching to equip doctors with the tools needed to move beyond just surviving to thriving.
Services have been established from Founder Natalie Harman’s 15 years of skilful expertise and experience within the corporate world, the UK’s NHS and a further six years with NSW Health.
Natalie Harman is highly skilled with a deep knowledge of today’s complex hospital working environments. She intimately understands the specific workplace demands, stressors and environments that critical care doctors operate in.
Specific challenges for doctors include shift work, work-life integration, direct and vicarious exposure to trauma, chronic stress, moral injury and career and exam anxiety. Workplace conflict and hierarchical cultures only compound feelings of challenge. They also impact levels of professional satisfaction and personal and family lives.
Becoming Mindful delivers services onsite to hospital departments and works with doctors in their workplace at their convenience.
Wellbeing, leadership, exam and work-life integration coaching and counselling supports mentally healthy, high performing doctors. Unrivalled understanding. Trusted expertise.
Founder Natalie Harman
Natalie Harman’s trauma-informed clinical approach and deep understanding of hospital environments enables her to integrate several therapeutic techniques tailored to meet the individual needs of the client and department.
These include but are not limited to EMDR, CBT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, mindfulness-based somatic therapies, compassion-focused therapy, and solution-focused wellbeing coaching.
Natalie has a proven track record working with ED, ICU, NICU, O&G, and Radiology units at several busy Sydney teaching hospitals.
She is adept at building a psychologically safe space that engenders trust and proactively addresses both individual wellbeing and workplace culture.
“Doctors don’t need to explain to me the complex aspects affecting their wellbeing. I understand it. My work helps them to move beyond coping with challenges to thriving in their personal and professional lives.”
- Natalie Harman, Founder of Becoming Mindful