Caitlin Faas, Ph.D.

You take in other people's pain all day. Where does it go?

Coaching for physicians who are holding it together at work and feeling it come out sideways at home.

Before you scroll

You're probably reading this between things. A chart half open, or the kitchen at 10pm.

Notice how you're sitting. Notice your jaw. Notice whether you've taken a full breath since you got here.

That took about 4 seconds. It's also most of what I do.

What I see

You're good at your job. Patients trust you and colleagues lean on you. From the outside, nothing's wrong.

Then you get home.

It's the pantry at night, or the second glass of wine, or snapping at someone you love over the dishwasher. Some nights it's a quiet search for jobs outside medicine.

You've done the therapy and read the books. Maybe you finished a coaching program, and it helped for a while.

And it still gets harder every year.

Why it's happening

This is what the work does to people who care.

You sit with fear and grief for hours a day, inside a system that schedules you in 15-minute blocks and follows you home through the EHR.

All of that has to go somewhere. Right now it's going home with you.

How I work

Therapy looks at the past. Most coaching looks at the future. I work with what's here right now.

We slow down. You tell me what just happened, and we stay with it long enough for your body to catch up with your mind.

You already have plenty of tools and plenty of insight. What's been missing is a regular place to set things down.

It happens by message. You write or send a voice note on WhatsApp when something's up: after a hard case, in the parking garage, at 10pm in the kitchen. I answer within 1-14 hours, and we keep going from there.

We start with one month. If it helps, we continue month to month.

Who I am

I'm Caitlin Faas. I have a Ph.D. in human development and 4,000+ hours of coaching behind me.

I spent years coaching physicians, inside a physician coaching program and for medical systems.

I'm not a physician. I see the pattern from outside medicine, and that's part of why I can see it.

Email me when

• A case from weeks ago is still with you

• Therapy or a coaching program ended and the old patterns are back

• Someone at home said something you can't unhear

• You want another 15 years in medicine, and you want them to cost less at home

I'm the wrong call when

• You're in crisis and need more than a coach.

• Your employer is forcing you to see someone like me.

• You want a strict plan to follow, a set of goals, or a quick fix.

• You aren't a physician and you're new to my work.

The ask

Email me at caitlin@drcaitlinfaas.com and tell me, in a sentence or two, what you carried home this week.

I read every email myself, and I'll write back.

I keep this practice small because I also work full time in education.

Every Tuesday I send one email about these topics.

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