Welcome

As a provider for the Ascension network, I have provided treatment for mostly medical professionals (and other high achievers) for the last 25 years. I have provided treatment for depression, anxiety, ADD/ADHD, and of course BURNOUT. During the pandemic, I worked with physicians, clergy, and nurses as they navigated through hospitals full of dying patients, making some very hard clinical calls and seeing each other get sick and die. It felt like I was on the units and in the morgue of several hospitals. In real time. I have since dedicated my practice to those who have devoted their lives to humanity (for better or worse). Men and women are not allowed to ask for help. Those who took the Hippocratic Oath shouldn’t have to suffer for it anymore (before or after the pandemic). My services are safe, confidential and nobody gets a label!

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Are you looking for relief…from anxiety, stress, burnout, depression, feeling less than, moral injury, compassion fatigue, addiction, or workaholism? Being a medical professional (Physician, Fellow, Resident), and having the courage to leap through the following steps is a TALL ORDER! But who wants to live like this? Right?

1. Seek help for BURNOUT.

2. Trust the person you find, will guard and appreciate your medical anonymity and confidentiality, so getting help for burnout, anxiety or trauma does not include getting consequences.

3. Have confidence that person will know and understand the physician and the culture and language of medicine.

4. Hope that person will get you! They will understand you with compassion, acceptance, and respect everything you need to say and feel.

I believe you have found your person! Whether you are navigating burnout or work/personal situations (or both), you have some hope. You believe things can be different and a part of you is driven to make them so. How?

As a therapist, I can help you find solutions like the second set of eyes when you have lost your keys. I can help you with personal transformation. I can show you how to release attachments, change perspectives, become more mindful and kinder to yourself, and get back your sense of purpose and meaning. Together, let’s heal the BURNOUT!!! and that includes, the Moral Injury, People Pleasing, and of course, the Imposter Syndrome!

I would like to offer you a 15-minute, free phone consultation. We can connect and see if we are a match without so much as a credit card :-) Go ahead, click the link below, and I so look forward to meeting you.

My Philosophy

On how we Tick:

The past offers us valuable lessons, but it is not a place to live!

You're as unique as your own fingerprint. Each one of us struggles with the burdens rooted in our past, present, and future. When you come into our office, your sessions will be a collaboration - tailored to your specific needs and rooted in psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, mindfulness, or other therapeutic modalities.

Today, in order to work through anxiety, depression, addiction, and other problems. We have learned there are simple, effective approaches such as mindfulness meditation and self-compassion that have shown us that the quality of our lives and our resiliency depends on how we connect to ourselves. Our suffering comes from the maladaptive ways that we connect to others, along with a misperception that we are “not enough.”  

We experience so many toxic emotions based on what we believe others think or feel about us. We put ourselves down, thinking that we are not good enough and don’t belong (imposter syndrome). We judge others, we seek validation, and we strive to show ourselves to the world as better than average (perfectionist). We also run around trying to anticipate and take care of everyone else’s needs, ignoring our own. This formula leaves no room for your happiness and instead contributes to your suffering with resentment (compassion fatigue).

After being liberated from a concentration camp, psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote extensively about suffering. In Man’s Search for Meaning, he explored the idea that suffering is a part of life and we all experience it one way or another. He began to see that if we are mindful and aware of our suffering in any given moment, we can transcend it. Today, we’re beginning to see the wisdom in this idea. It’s much easier to work with our suffering when we are aware of it—and almost impossible to do anything about it when we are mindless.  

How we work together

• Making a game plan

• Thinking outside of the box

• Teach self-regulation when monkey mind comes knocking

• Promise honesty and authenticity (no BS here)

• Hold the space for you

• Help you stay anchored

• Resources to augment therapy

• Offer breathing and meditation techniques

• Maintain the utmost respect for your confidentiality

• I'll be your biggest advocate/cheerleader as you take your bravery to task

About Me

I've always wanted to be a therapist. As a child my friends tended to gravitate to me if they needed someone to talk to or help them get out of a pickle. After having a positive experience with a school counselor my future was solidified. It was so healing to be able to talk to someone I could trust, without judgment and most of all, feel safe. That year I learned about compassion, resiliency, and gratitude - first hand. I don’t have a job, I have a passion; and I am in awe of the bravery each person brings when they walk through my door.

I received my BA in psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, my Masters from South Texas State University in San Marcos, and my PhD in Clinical Supervision at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio. For the last 25 years I've had the good fortune of working in many different paradigms of mental health: inpatient/outpatient, public/private as both clinician and administrator. Since I started my career ongoing research has been the platform for new evidence based approaches to healing, growth, and resiliency.

Dr. Robin Shaw's profile in Psychology Today.