How counsellors/psychotherapists work with 'moral injury' affecting healthcare workers

Are you a therapist with experience of counselling healthcare workers?

Have you worked with burnout, guilt, shame, depression, anger, PTSD or compassion fatigue associated with clients’ healthcare work?

Might part of their distress be due to violation of their deeply held moral beliefs and values sometimes called ‘Moral Injury’?

For example:

  • Feeling responsible for causing harm by their actions or inactions
  • Being unable to deliver what a patient needs due to organisational constraints or lack of resources
  • Feeling let down by those in authority
  • Witnessing examples of these in the workplace?

If so, I would really like to hear about your experiences of working with Moral Injury in Healthcare workers.

This will form the basis of my MA (Counselling) final dissertation

If you would like to share your experience, or would like further information, please contact Tamsin Josty (tamsinjosty@waverleyabbeycollege.ac.uk)