Weekly 75 min group sessions  |  Limited Openings

companions in medicine

A Confidential Teletherapy Group (CA)

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WEEKLY topics

The companions in Medicine teletherapy group offers support for those partnered with someone in the medical field - with weekly 75 minute group sessions. Topics rotating weekly, the group can be joined on a rolling basis.

Led by Katie Webb, marriage and family therapist associate and wife to physician with first-hand experience of the medical journey. Sessions are a dedicated time to discuss the core theme, “living beside medicine”. Including the following topics outlined below.

Cost: $65/session *sliding scale available for those in training

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01-  Understanding how medicine as a system affects relationships and family life

Living Beside Medicine

Focus:

  • Unpredictable schedules, call, emotional depletion

  • Medicine’s hierarchy and how it spills into home life

  • Why it’s not “just a job”

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02- Emotional labor & the invisible load

Carrying the household

Focus:

  • Emotional management responsibilities (mental load)

  • Being the “default parent” or organizer

  • Resentment & guilt for wanting more support

Interventions:

  • Mapping invisible labor

  • Boundary and delegation conversations

  • Reframing “asking” vs “partnering”

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03- How stress changes listening, tone, and repair

Communication & Chronic Stress

Focus:

  • Why conversations fail after long shifts or call

  • “Dumping” vs connecting

  • Defensive cycles

Skills

  • Short, low-demand check-ins

  • Repair scripts

  • Knowing when not to talk

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04- Being physically present but emotionally alone, missing intimacy without conflict

Emotional Distance & Loneliness

Focus:

  • Parallel lives

  • Feeling like a roommate

  • Grieving the relationship you imagined

Skills

  • Naming loss

  • Normalizing ambivalence

  • Creating micro-connections

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05- Loss of self, career compromise, or geographic sacrifice

Identity & Self

Focus:

  • Being “the flexible one”

  • Identity overshadowed by medicine

  • Shame around resentment

Skills

  • Identity timeline

  • Values re-centering

  • Reclaiming autonomy

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06- Carrying the weight of parenting

Parenting in medical families

Focus:

  • Solo parenting

  • Absence, missed milestones

  • Carrying family narrative

Skills

  • Explaining absence to kids

  • Avoiding parentification

  • Managing anger toward the system, not the parent

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07- Where medicine ends and family begins

Boundaries with work

Focus:

  • When boundaries feel impossible - “the pager always wins”

  • Accommodating extra shifts

  • Resentment vs realism

Skills

  • Distinguishing negotiable vs non-negotiable

  • Collaborative boundary setting

  • Accepting limits without collapse

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08 - Dealing with grief & micro-losses

Grief, Loss, and Ambiguous Mourning

Focus:

  • Missed holidays

  • Relocations

  • Delayed dreams

Skills / Psychoeducation

  • Disenfranchised grief

  • Ambiguous loss

  • Permission to mourn without “blaming”

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09 - Emotional and physical exhaustion impacting intimacy

intimacy, sex, & Connection

Focus:

  • Desire mismatch

  • Feeling undesired vs feeling exhausted

  • Scheduling intimacy without killing it

Skills

  • Normalize

  • Reduce shame & rebuild emotional closeness

  • Focus on connection, not performance

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10 - Mixed feelings toward partner and profession

Resentment, anger, & Guilt 

Focus:

  • Guilt for resentment

  • Anger at medicine vs partner

  • Fear of being “unsupportive”Skills

Skills

  • Emotional containment

  • Developing language for complexities

  • Normalization

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11 - Redefining the relationship with medicine

Meaning making

Focus:

  • Reclaiming agency

  • What am I choosing vs enduring?

  • What needs to change? & What Can’t

Skills

  • Values clarification

  • Personal boundaries

  • Ongoing support plan

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  • The white coat is heavy—but it’s often carried by someone else.

    Companions in Medicine - A Confidential Therapy Group

  • finally a space and time for you to be heard. You are not alone.

    Companions in Medicine - A Confidential Therapy Group

  • You cannot pour from an empty cup—but caretakers are often told to keep pouring anyway.

    Companions in Medicine - A Confidential Therapy Group

How It Works

  • Once you click “Register” I will reach out with a welcome packet. If there are no more spaces I will place you on a waiting list.

  • You may read through the brief welcome packet to understand a bit more about the group and next steps.

  • You will receive an email with paperwork I will need you to fill out before you can join your first group.

  • You are ready to join your first group. Use the login information provided to sign in.

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