You became a social worker to make a meaningful impact — to be present with people during some of the hardest moments of their lives, to guide others through systems that so often feel impossible to navigate. You bring empathy, clarity, and steadiness to chaotic situations. You hold a team together. You carry the grief, the tension, the ethical gray zones — and somehow still show up with compassion.

I’ve been there.

I spent over a decade in pediatric emergency and nephrology settings, navigating the impossible expectations placed on healthcare social workers. I would move quickly from supporting a family during a death to advocating for school services, which meant emotional dyregulation and no time to process the depth of experience. Providers came to me with problems I couldn’t fix. Not because I wasn’t good at my job, but because the problems were outside of my scope, but that didn’t change the self-doubt and fear I had that I couldn’t do my job well. I struggled with moral distress that comes from the broken healthcare system. I struggled because I didn’t know how to say no.

I witnessed countless traumas, was burned out, and deeply affected by the work — but I also learned how to sit with people in unimaginable pain, how to hold space for complexity, how resilient we can be.

What I didn’t have — and what I needed most — was meaningful support. Supervision that went deeper. A space to bring clarity to complexity. A space to learn practical strategies and language to relieve some of the pressure that was making my job so hard.

That’s what this consultation space is for.

For healthcare social workers who want:

• Time to reflect on how you’re practicing — and how you want to deepen your practice

• Support in navigating systemic pressures without sacrificing your wellbeing

• Strategies to bring relief to you practice, and language to learn how to advocate for yourself to your colleagues and supervisors

• A steady group of peers who understand this work from the inside

Let’s create the kind of support that the system rarely offers.

You deserve that.