Healthcare Education, Speaking & Professional Consultation
Education, workshops, and consultation:
burnout, moral distress, MAiD, grief, psychological safety, and meaning in healthcare and helping professions.
Registered Psychotherapist | Certified Supervisor-Educator | Certified Spiritual Health Practitioner
Selected Presentations & Teaching
Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario
Saskatoon Theological Union
Emmanuel Health, Good Samaritan Society
Areas of Expertise
Burnout & Compassion Fatigue
Burnout is more than exhaustion. It can affect identity, relationships, decision-making, meaning, and a person’s ability to continue doing work they once loved. Drawing on my Cost of Care framework, I help professionals and organizations understand the personal and systemic factors that contribute to burnout and compassion fatigue and explore practical pathways toward recovery and sustainability.
Moral Distress & Moral Injury
Professionals often encounter situations in which competing values, limited resources, organizational pressures, or ethical concerns create significant emotional strain. These experiences can leave lasting impacts on well-being, trust, and professional identity. Educational sessions explore the causes and consequences of moral distress and moral injury, while offering opportunities for reflection, discussion, and resilience-building.
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)
MAiD raises complex psychological, spiritual, relational, and ethical questions for patients, families, practitioners, and organizations. Presentations and consultations may address family dynamics, anticipatory grief, provider experiences, psychological safety, spiritual concerns, ethical tensions, and approaches to supporting those involved in the MAiD process.
Psychological Safety & Trauma Education
Teams perform best when members feel safe to ask questions, raise concerns, reflect honestly, and engage in difficult conversations. Workshops explore the foundations of psychological safety and its role in team functioning, leadership, learning, resilience, and quality care.
Grief, Loss & Bereavement
Grief is a natural response to loss, yet many professionals and organizations struggle to create space for it. Educational sessions explore anticipatory grief, cumulative loss, professional grief, bereavement, and ways individuals and teams can support one another through significant transitions and losses.
Meaning, Purpose & Spiritual Care
Many helping professionals are sustained by a deep sense of purpose, vocation, or calling. At the same time, exposure to suffering, loss, and ethical complexity can challenge that sense of meaning. Through reflection and discussion, participants are invited to reconnect with their values, explore questions of purpose, and strengthen their capacity to engage in difficult work with integrity and hope.
What people are saying
The MAiD Review Team also highlighted the value of discussions related to Ring Theory, boundaries, support systems, role clarity, and maintaining purpose in emotionally complex work.
This presentation reflects the type of education and consultation I provide for healthcare organizations, professional associations, leadership teams, spiritual care departments, and helping professionals seeking thoughtful engagement with difficult topics. Sessions can be tailored to the needs of individual organizations and delivered virtually or in person.
Ways We Can Work Together
Organizations have different learning needs, from conference presentations to facilitated team conversations. Sessions can be customized to your audience, goals, and organizational context.
Keynote Presentations
Engaging presentations that introduce new ideas, challenge assumptions, and encourage meaningful reflection on topics such as burnout, moral distress, psychological safety, MAiD, grief, ethics, and spiritual care.
Workshops & Professional Development
Interactive learning experiences that combine practical tools, case studies, discussion, and reflection. Workshops can be delivered as stand-alone sessions or as part of larger educational initiatives.
Consultation
Consultation services for healthcare organizations, spiritual care departments, leadership teams, educational institutions, and helping professionals seeking support with complex situations, team dynamics, burnout, moral distress, ethics, or program development.
About Erika
Credentials & Professional Affiliations
Registered Psychotherapist (CRPO)
Certified Supervisor-Educator (CASC/ACSS)
Certified Spiritual Health Practitioner (CASC/ACSS)
Ordained Minister
Erika Mills is a Registered Psychotherapist, Certified Spiritual Health Practitioner, Certified Supervisor-Educator, and Ordained Minister with experience supporting individuals, families, healthcare professionals, chaplains, and organizations navigating complex human experiences.
Her work focuses on burnout, moral distress, moral injury, grief, spirituality, ethical decision-making, professional identity, and the psychological impact of caring professions. Drawing on experience in psychotherapy, spiritual care, healthcare, education, and professional formation, Erika creates engaging learning environments where participants can explore difficult topics with honesty, curiosity, and practical insight.
In addition to her clinical practice, Erika has taught healthcare ethics and theology at the certificate level, facilitated professional development for chaplains and helping professionals, and provided education on the psychological, spiritual, relational, and ethical dimensions of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) for the MAiD Review Team of the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario.
Erika is passionate about helping individuals and organizations sustain meaningful work, foster psychological safety, navigate ethical complexity, and remain connected to purpose in the midst of challenging circumstances
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Whether you are planning a conference, professional development event, staff retreat, workshop, consultation, or educational series, I would be pleased to discuss your needs.
Contact me to discuss availability, learning objectives, and customized programming for your organization.
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