Coaching for physicians, nurses, and healthcare professionals

You take care of everyone at work. Who takes care of you? Coaching for the people who hold this work every day, for when exhaustion has started to feel like the baseline instead of the exception.

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25-minute call. No pitch.

Made for

The people holding it together

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Physicians and residents

You trained for a decade to do this, and lately you find yourself counting the hours until the shift ends. That is worth talking about before it hardens.

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Nurses and advanced practice clinicians

You carry the patients, the short staffing, and the family in the hallway. Nobody's charting how much of you is left at the end of it.

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Everyone else who keeps it running

Pharmacists, therapists, techs, coordinators, and managers. The work that holds a hospital up is rarely the work anyone thanks you for.

What the research says

Coaching for physician burnout has evidence behind it

In November 2025, Annals of Internal Medicine published a review of 99 randomized trials testing what actually helps healthcare workers with burnout. For physicians, professional coaching measurably reduced burnout and depersonalization, the numbness where patients start to feel like tasks.

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Randomized trials in the review

9,330

Healthcare professionals studied

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Weeks: programs that ran longer worked better

2025

Published in Annals of Internal Medicine

The review compared individual-level programs across physicians, nurses and midwives, and mixed groups of healthcare staff. The pattern was clear. Professional coaching helped physicians, while mindfulness programs helped nurses, midwives, and mixed teams more than they helped physicians. And for both, the benefit was stronger when the program ran for more than four weeks.

That last finding shapes how I work. One workshop or a single wellness day is rarely enough. What seems to help is a steady, ongoing conversation with someone whose only job is to be in your corner.

In the spirit of the name: most trials in the review weren't blinded and relied on self-reported measures, which is hard to avoid in this kind of research. And if you're a nurse, the evidence points more strongly to mindfulness than to coaching. The two aren't competing, and plenty of people do both.

Source: Collett G, Gupta A, et al. Efficacy of individual-level interventions to mitigate the risk for burnout among health care professionals. Annals of Internal Medicine, 2025. Summarized by Medscape.

What we work on

The things there's no rotation for

Medicine trains you to put yourself last and calls it professionalism. Coaching is one hour where you come first, and nobody needs anything from you.

Exhaustion as the baseline

Noticing when tired stopped being a bad week and became the weather, and what you want to do about it.

Getting the care back

The reason you went into this work is usually still there, underneath the charting and the pages. We go looking for it.

Stay, change, or go

A new specialty, fewer shifts, a non-clinical role, or leaving. Thinking it through out loud with someone who has no stake in the answer.

You spend all day holding space for other people. This is yours.

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How it works

A steady cadence, not a session count

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A free 25-minute call

A no-pressure session to see if we're a good fit. No prep needed, and you leave with something either way.

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We find a rhythm you can keep

One-on-one coaching on a regular cadence. No packages to burn through and no pressure to use up hours.

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You keep it as long as it helps

Stop whenever you're ready. The research suggests giving it more than four weeks, so that's where I'd start.

Meet your coach

Hi, I'm Andrew

Andrew Tolentino, Co-Active trained coach in San Francisco, standing among tree ferns

I'm a Co-Active trained coach based in San Francisco. Before this I spent twenty years in product design and over five leading teams, and in 2026 I left my job to coach full time.

I'm not a clinician, and I won't pretend to know your ward or your clinic. What I do know is what it's like to give everything to a job that keeps asking for more, and how easy it is to stop noticing what that costs. My job is to listen closely, tell you the truth as I see it, and stay in your corner.

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Questions

What people usually ask first

Does coaching actually help physician burnout?

The best current evidence says yes. The 2025 review of 99 trials found coaching reduced burnout and depersonalization among physicians, with programs over four weeks working best.

Is this therapy?

No. Coaching looks forward and doesn't diagnose or treat anything. If you're struggling with depression or thoughts of harming yourself, please reach a clinician first. The free Physician Support Line is 1-888-409-0141, and anyone can call or text 988.

Will my employer know?

No. Honest Club is independent and doesn't report to any hospital or health system. What you say stays between us, with the usual exception if someone's safety is at risk.

How long does it last?

As long as it's useful. There's no fixed package, and you can stop whenever you're ready. We talk through packages and pricing on the free call.

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What it's like to work with me

Andrew has an astute, human-first approach. He connects with you deeply before working toward solutions for whatever you're facing.

AI Product Designer

Andrew is a wonderful person in this world. Watching him grow, and being trusted to grow alongside him, was a gift.

Staff Designer

Andrew is a tremendous part of the cultural fabric of any org he's part of. His presence is felt long after he's moved on.

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Free 25-minute coaching session

A no-pressure session to see if we're a good fit. It doubles as a sample of coaching, so you leave with something either way. Or email me at andrew@honestclub.co.

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