How this will work
When you Click on the "Schedule Your Interview Now..." button
you will be taken to the scheduling app where you can choose
a convenient time for your interview from those listed as available.
The informational interview will be held via Zoom and,
only with your permission, they will be recorded so that
Brad can review (and possibly transcribe) it later.
The recording will enable him to focus on listening to YOU,
rather than being distracted by taking lots of notes.
This will also ensure that he can learn as much as possible from
your very valuable and generous gift of your time for the interview.
The Interview Process
After going over the Informed Consent For Audio/Video Recording
(which will be sent to you via Email, or can be downloaded HERE)
we will invest a few minutes in getting to know each other.
The interview will start with a focus on gathering some demographic
information about you, and your Nursing career. From there we will
transition into exploring your thoughts, feelings, and experience
with each of the three areas of focus.
While the main focus of these interview is work and career related,
many of us are parents, are engaged in relationships, and have a
multitude of other demands for our time, effort, and focus.
In order to best serve the Nurses who will be participating in the,
Nurse Stress, Anxiety, & Burnout Relief Program I'm creating
it would be VERY helpful for me to understand what those kind of
demands are, and how impactful, or contributory, they are to your
experience of Stress, Anxiety, and Burnout.
I also would appreciate learning from you what (kinds of) things
you have tried in the past, and how successful or impactful
they have been in providing relief.
Stress
Everyone has some level of stress in their life, and we can usuaully handle a reasonable amount. It becomes problematic and detremental to our wellbeing when it exceeds our ability to both cope in the moment and especially the long term when it accumulates over time.
Anxiety
It's not unusual to be anxious occassionally. When occassionally being anxious turns into anxiety it can become problematic. Sometimes we're anxious because of identifyable causes, like PPE shortages during the pandemic. Other times it can seem more nebulous and without a readily identifiable source, which can make it more challenging to endure.
Burnout
Being over-stressed, over-worked, over-anxious, and having to try and endure tough (and sometimes even rediculous) conditions with no defineable resolution or end point can rapidly contribute to feeling burnt out. There are also some often unrecognized contributors that can make matters worse. Toward the end of the burnout focused segment, we will explore some of them, and consider how they might be contribute to your feelings of burnout.
After The Interview...
After the body of the interview is completed, and you've had an opportunity to as me any questions,
I'll ask you a few closing questions like:
"May I contacty you again if I have any follow-up questions?"
and
"I will be releasing a pilot version of
The Nurse Stress, Anxiety, & Burnout Relief Program
in the next month or two, would you like me to contact you about it
once it is ready?"
About Brad...
Brad Reed is a Washington State Licensed Mental Health Counselor who is focused on working with our Hometown Heroes, especially Nurses, Veterans, and First Responders. While he recognizes the importance of his work in helping clients who are impacted by Stress, Anxiety, and Burnout, his passion lies is helping clients release the emotional charge around the upsetting (and very often traumatic) incidents they've encountered - both on and off the job as adults, as well as during childhood.
In 2016, at 55-years old, Brad moved from Vancouver, Washington, USA to Alamosa, Colorado so he could pursue earning his Master's in Clinical Mental Health. This new adventure was quite a departure from his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering and more than two decades using his Engineering knowledge and skills to address problems and difficulties within the electronics technology field.
Brad specifically chose this path because he knew he could deliver the greatest positive impact through serving Hometown Heroes living with the mental health challenges. These challenges often develop over years for those immersed in these highly stressful lines of service. His motivation to pursue this path came from personally experiencing the consistently impressive results available from the specific evidence-based intervention he uses when helping clients. He learned this extremely powerful mind-body technique more than 20 years ago when he trained with its creator, Gary Craig.
Throughout his education and training as a counselor, Brad has drawn on his background in engineering to develop a unique perspective and approach to healing mental health challenges. His innate curiosity and desire to understand how and why things work has led him to informally experiment with combining and extending various healing modalities in order to create something even more effective.
Overall, Brad's unique combination of skills and experiences has enabled him to develop powerful and effective approaches to helping clients process and release traumatic and upsetting experiences. He continues to develop, refine, and improve those approaches and techniques, as he continues seeking a higher level of effectiveness for mental health interventions.
Brad @ BradReedCounseling.com
360-836-4304
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