Team Healthcare- The Wellbeing Podcast for Healthcare Professionals

This is a fascinating discussion with GP, homeopath, and author Dr Gabriella Day. Gabriella talks about anxiety in patients and professionals, which started before the COVID-19 pandemic, but has got considerably worse since. We talk about the limitations of the current system of short GP appointments, and her new, now published book, In Defence of the Realm. You can reach Gabriella via her website...

I talk to Dr Ranj Sagoo, a GP, coach, and hypnotherapist from Birmingham in the UK. He's also an extremely talented artist. Ranj talks about wanting to help people, working in orthopaedics and general practice, and his journey into coaching and hypnotherapy. He goes above and beyond for his patients and is writing a book that helps people to beat their limiting beliefs. You can get more inform...

I speak to Crystal Hamilton, a mental health counsellor based in Washington State. She has a behavioural health agency and specialises in religious trauma and couples therapy. Crystal talks about her childhood, her brother's addiction, depression, and her Mormon upbringing. We discuss her therapist training, drinking and drug taking, anxiety, and agoraphobia. Crystal has an upcoming book about...

Cheryl is a psychiatrist who decided to become a mental health trainer. In this episode, she talks about her struggles with depression and anxiety, leaving the NHS due to burnout, and going on to help schools and churches better understand mental health. We discuss the stigma of struggling within healthcare, mental health in doctors, and the importance of self-care. Cheryl's websites: https://...

In this insightful podcast episode, I speak to Dr Lewis Thomas about how having Sickle Cell both led him into and out of a career in medicine. We talk about his journey from GP to coach and the struggles that doctors are facing. Dr. Lewis Thomas is an accredited life coach and former GP based in Manchester. He runs a coaching program called ‘The Empowerment Clinic,’ offering one-to-one online coac...

I'm joined in this episode with Kelly Duffin. She struggled with stress, anxiety and panic attacks when she worked as an emergency first responder. Kelly tells her story of stress, long hours and a difficult job to following her passion and helping people as a holistic health practitioner. We highlight the importance of people helping others asking for help themselves. It's often the hardest thing...

In this episode, I interview Safiya Omosanya who talks about her struggles with anxiety and depression. Safiya lived with anxiety and depression since childhood and trained and worked as an occupational therapist. She managed her mental health with medication, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT).Safiya now helps other people with their anxiety and depression a...

Meet your host (me- Emma Leivesley, a wellbeing and burnout coach helping stressed out doctors, nurses and allied healthcare professionals). In this episode, I'll explain how the Team Healthcare podcast came to be and outline the 3 rules of the Manifesto:1. End the stigma of healthcare professionals struggling with their mental health, stress and burnout2. Change the toxic culture of healthcar...