7 Los Angeles Therapists for Nurses & Healthcare Workers
Working in healthcare demands an extraordinary level of emotional stamina, swift decision-making, and constant self-sacrifice.
For nurses, physicians, and medical professionals across Los Angeles, this relentless environment often leads to severe compassion fatigue, decision fatigue, secondary trauma, shift anxiety, and a loss of personal boundaries.
Our practice provides discreet, highly specialized therapy tailored specifically to the unique psychological realities of the LA healthcare community, helping you process the heavy burdens of caregiving without burning out, losing your empathy, or sacrificing your own health and life outside the clinic.
Who we work with
Healthcare is a calling, but it is also a job that asks an enormous amount of you—physically, emotionally, and relationally.
Our therapists work with medical professionals across various roles and specialties, and as healthcare professionals ourselves, we understand that what looks like "just stress" on paper often runs much deeper. We support healthcare workers including:
ER Nurses and Doctors struggling with the rapid pace, vicarious trauma, and high patient ratios.
Bedsice, ICU, and Med-Surg Nurses navigating patient loss, high needs cases, and intense clinical environments.
Labor & Delivery, Postpartum, and NICU Nurses supporting families through complex, high-stakes births and perinatal loss.
Resident and Attending Physicians managing diagnostic weight, long hours, and relentless clinical pressure.
Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants balancing high-volume caseloads and constant care coordination.
Nurse Managers and Healthcare Leaders carrying the weight of staffing shortages and institutional stress.
Mental Health Clinicians, Social Workers, and Therapists seeking a private space to process their own emotional burnout.
EMTs, Paramedics, and First Responders dealing with critical incidents and rapid, high-stress decision-making.
Doulas, Death Doulas, Midwives, and Birth Workers holding space for tender, life-changing transitions.
Medical Students navigating the intense demands of medical school.
Whether you are newly licensed, navigating a major career pivot, or thirty years into your career, we are here to help you process what you carry and reconnect with yourself outside of work.
Meet Our Therapists
Gabriella Elise Giorgio
Good fit for highly masked autistic women, neurodivergent healthcare workers, and anxious people pleasers seeking a compassionate, collaborative space to unmask, heal attachment wounds, and build deep self-compassion.
I know how exhausting it is to carry an unrelenting inner critic that shames you for every imperfection, especially while pushing through shift fatigue, high stakes clinical demands, and years of constant social performance.
In our sessions, I offer a gentle, neurodivergent affirming space where you can drop the heavy mask, rebuild self trust, and find practical ways to honor your nervous system.
Together, we look at the wounded parts of yourself to quiet the self doubt, establish healthy boundaries, and create a sustainable way of living and working without burning out.
Marina Mendes
Good fit for sensitive healthcare workers, individuals of mixed-Asian background, and people-pleasing professionals seeking a gentle, holistic space to navigate life transitions, heal chronic grief, and rebuild trust in their own intuition.
As a recovering perfectionist, I understand how hard it is to give yourself permission to rest when you are navigating shaky life transitions, chronic grief, or major career changes.
In our gentle, collaborative sessions, we focus on bringing every alienated part of yourself back into belonging so you can regulate your emotions, build deep self-trust, and tune into your inner intuition.
Whether we meet in-person, virtually, or outdoors in nature, I hold space for you to heal silent grief, drop the burden of people-pleasing, and step into an empowered, fulfilling connection with yourself.
Janelle Malak
Good fit for burned-out healthcare workers, LA transplants, and anyone dealing with family estrangement looking for a warm, down to earth space to manage career changes, work through relationship stress, and move forward with clarity.
I know how isolating and heavy it feels when you are burnt out in your career, questioning a path you worked so hard for, or dealing with painful family friction.
In our supportive, judgment-free sessions, we look at the old patterns keeping you stuck so you can process the stress, build on your natural strengths, and start feeling like yourself again.
Whether you are facing career burnout, navigating family distance, or adjusting to life as a new parent, I walk alongside you to help you regain your footing and build healthier, more secure relationships.
Grace Chan
I am the best fit for BIPOC healthcare workers, adult third-culture adults, and high-achieving creatives looking for a culturally responsive, creative space to unburden themselves from family expectations, heal past conditioning, and come home to who they truly are.
If you are constantly striving for growth but feel weighed down by family expectations, cultural conditioning, and a habit of always keeping the peace, you know how exhausting it is to live by everyone else's rules.
With me, we drop the rigid scripts so you can step out of survival mode, quiet internalized perfectionism, and reclaim the parts of yourself you had to hide.
Using a creative, grounded approach, I help you release passed-down burdens, trust your own inner wisdom, and step into a life that feels authentic, peaceful, and fully your own.
Michael Hung
Good fit for Asian American healthcare workers, creative professionals, and individuals struggling with body image or deep burnout looking for a compassionate, depth-oriented space to heal quiet grief, quiet self-criticism, and live with genuine ease.
Carrying quiet grief, body shame, and an overactive inner critic can make even simple daily routines feel heavy and exhausting. I help you explore where those harsh survival patterns came from so you can step away from relentless perfectionism and learn to trust your body again. Together, we unpack the old wounds that make you feel like your worth depends on performing or pleasing others, creating room for you to process anxiety, restore energy, and connect back to your natural depth and creativity.
Emily Gaston
Good fit for healthcare professionals navigating relational trauma, individuals processing grief or loss, and teens or adults seeking a supportive, body-centered space to regulate their nervous systems, deepen self-understanding, and feel truly grounded.
Healing often begins when you give yourself permission to slow down, listen to your body, and look closely at the stories shaping your daily life.
I provide a grounded, curiosity-driven space where we can tend to the parts of you that feel unknown, overlooked, or exhausted by trauma and stress.
By helping you build a deeper awareness of your nervous system and process past experiences, we work to release held tension, navigate painful losses, and cultivate a steady, reliable sense of inner trust.
Bret Hansen
I am the best fit for LGBTQ+ healthcare workers, creative professionals, and emotionally sensitive adults looking for an authentic, curiosity-driven space to heal relational patterns, drop people-pleasing habits, and feel truly celebrated for who they are.
Trying to make sense of adulthood while carrying self-doubt, people-pleasing habits, or the feeling that you are constantly falling behind can leave you feeling completely disconnected.
I offer a warm, collaborative environment where we can gently look at where those protective reactions come from so you can stop just surviving and start feeling genuinely grounded.
Together, we unpack old shame, build emotional resilience, and help you shift from simply fitting in to fully trusting your unique identity, needs, and voice.
Why Choose Therapy on Fig for Your Therapy Needs
Clinicians Who Understand the Medical Landscape
You do not need to spend precious session time defining "code blue," explaining 12-hour shift fatigue, or justifying why calling out sick feels impossible. Our team understands the unfair systemic realities, workplace dynamics, and emotional burdens unique to practicing medicine in Los Angeles.
Neurodivergent-Affirming and Culturally Responsive Care
Healthcare isn't one-size-fits-all, and neither is therapy. We tailor our approach to your unique nervous system, cultural background, and lived experiences, offering a welcoming space for BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and neurodivergent clinicians who often carry extra layers of workplace stress.
Flexible Scheduling Built Around Shift Work
We know medical schedules rarely follow a standard 9-to-5. With morning, evening, and telehealth options across California, we make it easy to maintain consistent care around unpredictable shift rotations, call schedules, and long clinical hours.
Support for the Whole Person, Not Just the Clinician
You are more than your medical license, productivity metrics, or patient outcomes. We help you uncouple your personal self-worth from your clinical performance so you can set healthy boundaries, step out of survival mode, and reconnect with your life outside the clinic.
A Grounded, Down-to-Earth Therapeutic Environment
We skip the clinical jargon and rigid scripts in favor of genuine human connection. Located in Highland Park with virtual access statewide, our practice offers a warm, non-judgmental space where you can drop the heavy professional mask and just be yourself.
Why Delaying Therapy Can Keep Healthcare Workers Stuck
When you dedicate your life to caring for others, it’s easy to put your own mental health on the back burner. You might tell yourself that the exhaustion will pass after your next shift, that things will calm down once staffing improves, or that feeling drained is simply part of the job.
Pushing through chronic stress without support rarely works over time. Without a dedicated space to process what you carry, the physical, emotional, and relational toll accumulates behind the scenes until it becomes too much.
Your Nervous System Stays Stuck in Survival Mode
High-stakes medical environments, unpredictable codes, and constant clinical alerts keep your body in a persistent state of fight-or-flight. Pushing off therapy keeps your nervous system hypervigilant, making it nearly impossible to rest, sleep deeply, or “unplug” on your days off.
Compassion Fatigue Turn into Cynicism and Detachment
When your emotional cup is empty, empathy becomes difficult to access. As therapists, we understand. Delaying support often causes deep compassion fatigue to curdle into detachment, cynicism, or guilt over no longer feeling connected to your patients or your work.
Burnout Spills into Your Personal Life
The emotional energy required to survive a 12-hour shift or a heavy clinic schedule leaves very little left for those you love. Postponing therapy often leaves your partner, family, and friends receiving only whatever depleted version of you remains at the end of the day.
Physical Symptoms and Chronic Exhaustion Take Over
Unprocessed stress and secondary trauma do not just disappear—they live in the body. Delaying care often leads to physical warning signs like muscle tension, migraines, digestive issues, and severe fatigue that no amount of sleep can fix.
You Keep Relying on Masking or Unhealthy Coping
Healthcare culture often rewards self-sacrifice and penalizes vulnerability. Waiting to seek help forces you to rely on temporary survival strategies—like overworking, emotional shutdown, or numbing out—which only deepens isolation over time.
Frequently Asked Questions
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No, we offer flexible early morning, evening, and virtual telehealth sessions across California so you can maintain consistent care around unpredictable medical schedules, night shifts, and clinic rotations.
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Your care is entirely confidential and protected by strict state and federal privacy laws. Attending therapy is a private health decision and is never reported to your hospital employer, medical board, or nursing union.