Quotes from Healthcare Workers:

Quotes from Healthcare Providers:

I have benefited so much from Emotional PPE, and am confident that I never would have accessed the care had it not been this easy, free, and confidential.
Anonymous
CRNA, Massachusetts

I’m beyond grateful and I could never express my true gratitude. This program has helped me, and indirectly my team, my loving significant other and my family. Thank you.
Melissa
Occupational Therapist

I contracted COVID-19 working on the frontlines during the pandemic. I didn’t realize the toll that being sick would take on my mental health. But I found myself in one of the darkest places I had ever been, emotionally. I was ready to quit my job as a nurse and walk away from a career that I had once loved so much. I discovered Emotional PPE as an ad on Instagram and I decided to look into it. I was surprised to see how many professionals that were available to talk with. I just wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart. I did not think it would work, but after working with the therapist, I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders and I have found new joy. I never knew therapy could be so beneficial. It saved me, my career, and improved my relationships. 
Thank you for doing what you do and for being available to frontline workers during this pandemic. I will forever be grateful to you!
Krista
Nurse, California

I really didn’t appreciate just how much I needed this until it hit me just how much I changed during the pandemic. I worked through it from the beginning, doing my regular pharmacy work and then transitioning to COVID duty assignments… By the time I got enough feedback saying that I was in need of help I was pretty far gone. It was [the provider] that really helped me to get my head back together so when the opportunity presented itself to work in nuclear pharmacy I was mentally prepared and I really needed to be.
Darryl
Pharmacist, New York

There’s been this slowly growing sense of “things aren’t right”. I knew about The Emotional PPE Project, and figured I’d try it. Could not have been easier and I’ve found a psychologist to help me… I’m so glad I gave it a chance.
Anonymous
MD, Massachusetts

I’m a registered nurse in CA, hugely empathetic, and I take great pride in my career. COVID-19 took me by storm, unearthing past trauma I had not yet healed and I became seriously overwhelmed and worried for my well being. Gratefully, my friend, who is a MSW in Oregon sent me the information and I was able to contact with [a provider] almost immediately. I was so grateful for the therapist biographies on the site because it led me to the very person I was in need of. Working with [her] saved me in a time that I was struggling more than I ever had. I am forever in gratitude to this program.
Lauren
Nurse, California

I’m a firm believer that everyone needs therapy. But healthcare workers DEFINITELY need therapy, especially after everything we’ve been through during COVID-19. Like everyone else, I “managed” until the stress of life and work started causing physical symptoms that I couldn’t ignore. I couldn’t sleep and when I did, I had nightmares. I was exhausted, having pain from all the tension my body was holding. My boss gave me the push toward talking to someone after hearing that I wasn’t sleeping. I clicked the link for The Emotional PPE Project and was connected with a therapist in my state. We’ve been meeting once a week via zoom… My anxiety and physical symptoms have practically disappeared! It was so easy to sign up, to meet, there was no hassle at all. We have to take care of ourselves if we want to be able to take care of others.
Sarah
Unknown Position, Indiana

A year and a half at the bedside on a COVID floor got to be too much. I just couldn’t bear it, so I left and focused instead on teaching nursing. One day a friend stopped to ask me how I was doing and how work was, and I was so touched by her compassion I couldn’t stop crying. She told me about The Emotional PPE Project and that I should check it out. WOW… From 24 hours of checking out the website, I was sitting down remotely with a therapist telling her about all of the challenges, suffering, and death I watched as a nurse. The ability just to talk to someone who doesn’t have a stake in the game, that doesn’t have a bias or an agenda, and not only wants to listen and to help, but is trained to handle all of the heaviness… that made a huge difference. I got so much clarity and peace from my sessions with the Emotional PPE therapist that I decided that leaving nursing wasn’t actually for me. I was ready to contribute to healthcare in a new way. I went ahead and applied to Nurse Practitioner schools and I’m excited to say that I will be enrolled full time as of January 2021! 
Liz
Nurse, Massachusetts