Counselling for Doctors
Becoming Mindful helps doctors navigate complex hospital workplace environments, build emotional capacity and integrate work and life.
Improving Wellbeing for Doctors
Doctors are routinely exposed to trauma and the chronic stress of having to make hundreds of rapid critical decisions every day.
Add to this scenario the pressures of hierarchical hospital cultures, workplace conflicts, competitive training pathways, intense examination pressures, and career trajectory concerns.
These stressors can affect doctors’ work performance and clinical outcomes, along with their ability to build and sustain strong personal and family relationships outside the workplace.
With most hospital doctors working shifts, finding the time and support to attend to their wellness and mental health can be near impossible.
Like everyone, many doctors experience home and family pressures. Work demands are exacerbated by trauma, exam anxiety and constant stress, leading to overwhelm and burnout.
Becoming Mindful supports better physician wellbeing and healthier cultures to grow thriving hospital workplaces.
Tailored Programs
Founder of Becoming Mindful Natalie Harman designs tailored programs for specific departmental needs.
She works with teams to identify solutions for a wide range of issues - stress, trauma, moral injury, burnout, imposter syndrome, workplace conflict and more - to grow leadership and professional skills. She also coaches for Fellowship examinations.
In this way, Becoming Mindful creates programs that meet departmental needs and positively impact workplace culture.
Tailored Workshops
Founder of Becoming Mindful Natalie Harman designs tailored workshops for specific needs.
She works with teams to identify solutions are required for a wide range of issues - stress, moral injury, trauma, burnout, psychosocial safety, workplace conflict and more - to grow leadership skills. She also assists with examination preparation.
In this way, Becoming Mindful creates programs and workshops that meet defined team needs and positively impact workplace culture.
Support at Every Stage
Junior Doctor
Junior doctors navigate a complex workplace, with life and death scenarios and more. They’re also beginning to embark on Fellowship training pathways.
Senior Registrar
Doctors must advance through a series of demanding exams and learn to hold high levels of responsibility. Often as they enter the family life stage.
Consultant
Doctors must negotiate complex inter and intra-departmental needs. Moral injury, stress and burnout can be debilitating. While family needs grow at home.
Department Director
Department heads hold enormous responsibility and risk, managing hospital and LHD executive needs, and managing inter and intra-departmental difficulties.
Highly Skilled.
Deep Expertise.
Becoming Mindful Founder Natalie Harman has worked for over 20 years supporting the complex wellbeing challenges doctors experience.
Employing a variety of integrated techniques, she has developed sets of tailored solutions designed to meet the specific challenges faced in hospital workplaces: culture, team dynamics and specific individual needs.
Offering both group and private individual counselling for doctors, Becoming Mindful supports medics through every phase of their career.
Reduce stress and address burnout.
Hospitals We Work With
Becoming Mindful supports doctors in ED, ICU, NICU, O&G, and Radiology units at several busy Sydney teaching hospitals.