Dr. Pat’s Research

Animal Caregivers: Are you feeling burned out or fatigued in your job?

Like many caregivers in the animal care community, you love your job and truly believe in what you do. At the same time, very unique workplace stressors can create an emotional roller coaster of highs and lows. The cost of the roller coaster is emotional, physical, and spiritual exhaustion, which may lead to burnout.

Many workers in the animal care world leave the profession early because the emotionally intense work is overwhelming. The constant caring, over time, can have a cost.

If stress is getting in your way of a satisfying career in Animal Care, you are not alone!

Caregivers who are resilient, enjoying a long & rewarding career, have created tools to positively cope with these stressors. Many animal welfare organizations also support proactive, preventative strategies to foster wellness and resiliency for their staff.

Do you want to experience uplift in energy, mood, and focus in your work? Be more effective and resilient by using a tried and true, reflective, solution- focused process that will get you to the results you want.

Changing behaviour is challenging, even when facing situations out of your control. It can be done if you have the proper knowledge, a simple individualized plan of action for change available to you and the commitment and courage to move forward.