Therapy for Healthcare Workers in MA, RI, and UT
You spend your days caring for everyone else. Here, the care is for you.
Nurses, physicians, therapists, residents, techs, admin, and everyone who keeps a hospital or clinic running carry things most people never see. You may be exhausted in a way rest doesn't fix, replay a shift long after it ends, or feel you can't let anyone at work know how hard it's been.
You don't have to explain the culture to us. We know it.
What brings healthcare workers to therapy
Burnout and emotional exhaustion
Moral injury: the weight of being unable to give the care you know patients need
Anxiety, intrusive thoughts, rumination, or trouble sleeping after a difficult case or bad outcome
Grief and compassion fatigue
Trauma and vicarious traumatization from the COVID-19 pandemic
Shift work straining your health, relationships, and time with family
Feeling like you should be able to handle this on your own
You don't need a diagnosis, or a clear story, to begin.
Why Savoir
I've worked with healthcare providers during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, helping them process the magnitude of what they carried, including the trauma and vicarious traumatization that came with it. I was a healthcare provider at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Outpatient Psychiatry and at Cambridge Health Alliance in the Outpatient Addictions Service through those years, so I know firsthand how heavy and unpredictable that time was. Many of us are still recovering.
Trauma-informed therapy lets you work through difficult experiences and memories at a pace that feels safe, so you can process what happened without feeling overwhelmed by it. Our work is grounded in the relationship between therapist and client, not a one-size-fits-all technique.
Julia Schechter, MSW, LICSW
Privacy and convenience
Virtual sessions. Meet from home, your car, or anywhere private. No waiting room, no chance of running into a colleague.
Confidential. What you share stays between us, within the legal limits we review together at the start.
Scheduling around your shifts. Julia sees clients during the day. Kacey offers early morning and evening appointments, including evening in-person sessions in Brookline, MA.
Fees. We are in-network with Optum, UnitedHealthcare, and the Mass General Brigham Health plan. We’re finding that Harvard Pilgrim sessions are often reimbursed in-full with a prior-authorization, which we’re happy to fax over. See fees and insurance.
Who you’ll work with
Julia Schechter, MSW, LICSW (she/her)
Owner, PsychotherapistJulia trained at the Cambridge Health Alliance Victims of Violence Program under Dr. Judith Herman, whose work helped define how the field understands and treats complex trauma. She has more than 16 years of experience in trauma-informed care, with clinical roles at McLean Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Cambridge Health Alliance, and teaches Advanced Clinical Practice classes at Simmons University and Substance Use and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy classes at the Boston College School of Social Work. She is also a Registered Yoga Teacher and trauma-sensitive yoga facilitator, integrating somatic interventions for clients who request body-based work. She offers services via telehealth in Massachusetts , Rhode Island, and Utah.
Kacey Malz, MSW, LCSW (she/her)
Kacey trained at the Tufts Medical Center Outpatient Psychiatry Department. She uses Internal Family Systems and Narrative Therapy to help clients make sense of the parts of themselves that developed to cope, and to rewrite the stories they've been living inside. She offers early morning and evening appointments via telehealth, plus evening in-person sessions in Brookline, MA, which can make it easier to fit therapy around shift work.
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