Therapy for Healthcare Professionals with Natasha Trees, MA, LPC
Reconnecting Your Mind, Body, and Purpose: Beyond Burnout for Healthcare Professionals
Move Beyond Burnout and Reclaim Your Vitality
You dedicate your life to healing others, but the relentless demands of the healthcare system have left your own tank empty. When standard self-care advice feels insulting and solo efforts fall short, true recovery requires an approach that deeply understands the unique weight of medical and caregiving professions.
Your Burnout is Unique—Your Recovery Should Be Too
Your history, nervous system, and struggles are uniquely yours. Because there is no one-size-fits-all solution to burnout, rigid templates are not the answer. Together, we will co-create a personalized therapeutic experience tailored strictly to your demanding schedule, values, and pace.
As a healthcare professional of over twenty years, I bring warmth, wisdom, humor, and authenticity to each session.
Beyond Talk Therapy: Experiential & Somatic Healing
In Healthcare, when stress takes over, physical and emotional fatigue settle deep into the body, blocking mental clarity. Talking about the problem is only the first step.
Using experiential therapy, somatic psychology, and a Hakomi-informed approach, I weave mindfulness and gentle curiosity into our work. We engage your mind and body in real-time, active exploration to help you:
Decode physical signals to understand what your stress is telling you.
Process emotions actively through creative, evidence-based techniques.
Release stored tension built up from prolonged workplace survival mode.
Regulate your nervous system to restore lasting calm and safety outside the clinic.
A Seasoned, Collaborative Approach
Navigating institutional healthcare challenges requires an experienced professional who understands the deep intersection of physical and mental health from the inside out. Together, we will work toward:
Holistic Alignment: Reconnect your mental clarity, emotional well-being, and original core purpose..
Tailored Strategies: Combine evidence-based psychology with your immediate personal goals.
Actionable Roadmaps: Integrate practical physical awareness into a realistic daily routine.
Get Started with a Free Consultation
The best way to find out if we are a fit and to see how Individual therapy can help you is by booking a free consultation with me.
Therapy for Health Care Professionals Can Help With:
Clinical Burnout: Navigate systemic exhaustion, chronic understaffing stress, and patient care demands.
High-Functioning Anxiety & ADHD: Manage perfectionism, imposter syndrome, and fast-paced executive dysfunction.
Compassion Fatigue: Reconnect with empathy when feeling emotionally numb or drained.
Identity & Life Transitions: Balance your personal self with your demanding clinician persona.
Relationship & Home Strain: Manage how workplace exhaustion affects your marriage, parenting, and family life.
Institutional Dissatisfaction: Manage low morale when feeling unsupported by healthcare systems.
Clinician Self-Esteem: Overcome the "invincible healer" myth to acknowledge human vulnerability.
LGBTQ+ Clinician Support: Navigate your personal identity within traditional medical cultures
About Natasha
Hello, I’m Natasha Trees, Therapist. I was born in the Pacific Northwest and am proud to call this place home. However, having also spent formative years in the Midwest, and Overseas, I’ve become aware of the unique challenges that can come with adjusting to different cultures, environments, and traditions.
Life has offered me a multitude of experiences, both personally and professionally, guiding me to align with my own purpose - as well as a desire to support others in finding meaning in theirs. Being a healthcare professional for over twenty years, I intimately understand the unique weight, exhaustion, and dedication that comes with our field.
As a healthcare professional of over twenty years, I bring warmth, wisdom, humor, compassion, and authenticity to each session.
I am a curious science geek with an active spiritual practice, and a background in the creative arts - and I am often striving to find ways to bridge those worlds together. I am an outdoor enthusiast who feels deeply inspired and connected to the ecosystem and beauty this area has to offer.
Humor is vital to my life. Because of this, I often seek experiences in which laughter nourishes. I can be found pursuing many endeavors including: outdoor activities, dance, movie watching, sharing meals with good friends, travel, and exploring new psychological ideas with my spouse who works with me and is also a therapist.
My Approach and Influence
Hakomi-Informed
Mind Body
Modern neuroscience highlights how your mind and body interact to create true well-being. Using Hakomi-informed somatic practices, I will help you safely explore these connections and discover new paths to healing, processing, and renewal.
Experiential
Some of your most powerful and transformative growth can be realized right now through present-moment awareness. Let’s support your well-being in the here and now.
Strength-Centered
Let’s focus and refine the strengths and capacity you already possess, allowing them to work for you in a more fluid and restorative way.
Attachment-Based
If you want to deepen your relationship with yourself and others, attachment theory is at the heart of secure communication and connection. Let’s work together to cultivate more meaningful relationships with yourself and those around you.
I specialize in helping healthcare workers to:
Strengthen the Mind-body Connection
Let me partner with you to more deeply understand your mind-body connection. Modern neuroscience supports clinical tools and techniques that enhance how your mind interacts with your body. I use a Hakomi-informed somatic approach to help you gently connect with and shift the unconscious patterns that no longer serve you.
Restore your spirit and navigate Burnout
Feeling emotionally depleted or weighed down by the systemic challenges of caregiving? Let’s support you in processing the hidden grief of systemic burnout and compassion fatigue. Together, we will create a safe space to untangle workplace stress, honor your boundaries, and gently reconnect with the empathy that drew you to healthcare.
Nurture Health & Wellness Goals
Feeling stuck, exhausted, or anxious around your own health concerns? Let’s support you in cultivating your unique path to sustainable health and vitality. I welcome and value deep explorations of mind, body, and spirit—bringing clinical care, lived experience, and an open perspective to your journey.
Navigate Life Transitions
The stress surrounding major life changes is often overwhelming and rarely recognized. Let’s work together to help you navigate these shifts with more ease and fewer burdens. I am here to hold space for your grief, your joy, your challenges, and the profound strengths you bring.
Renew Meaning & Purpose
You’re managing, and on the surface, everything seems "fine"—but you’re looking to feel more aligned and reconnected to yourself. Let’s support you in discovering the tools and resources that allow your head and your heart to work together, bringing back a deeper sense of meaning and direction to your life and your work.
Foster Self-Acceptance & Reduce Anxiety
Feeling anxious or overwhelmed? Wishing to rebuild your inner confidence? Let’s support you in discovering tools that lean into your inherent strengths as a vehicle for self-advocacy and deeper self-compassion
Credentials
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Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Antioch University
Bachelor of Arts in Humanities from Washington State University
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC -OR #C8659)
Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT - OR #11069)
Counseling Internship with The M.E.T.A. Institute ~The Hakomi Institute of the Pacific NW
Practicum with The Oregon Prison Project
Practicum with Antioch University Counseling Clinic
Mentorship with Rose City Non-Violent Communication
Award Certification Project Management
Award Certification Interpersonal Communications
Award Certification Conflict Management
Award Certification Leadership Management
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Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy
Re-Creation of Self Professional Skills
Eastern Bodywork Modalities Specialization
Anatomy and Physiology Evaluator and Tutor
Gottman Method Level 1 Training Certification
Buddhist Psychology Specialization
Career and Academic Counseling Specialization
Drama Therapy Specialization
M.E.T.A. Hakomi Integrated Bodywork
Nia Dance Technique – White Belt
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Natasha was awarded membership with the Omega Mu Gamma chapter of Chi Sigma Iota Counseling and Professional International Honors society for scholastic and professional excellence.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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We accept Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and can provide a receipt for out-of-network reimbursement. However, we do not bill insurance companies directly, and are not currently in-network.
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$175 Individual 50-minute sessions for individual Mental health Therapy
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Most sessions are currently being held via Telehealth. Occasionally, walk and talk and/or outdoor therapy may be an option.