Dr Caroline Lloyd - Wednesday, 7 August 2024 at 7.30 pm

Dr Caroline Lloyd, Mental Health GP and EMDR Practitioner

Burnout or trauma – when doctors feel bad

Learning outcomes

• Identify the common signs of burnout
• Outline the difference between burnout and trauma, presentation and aetiology
• Describe strategies for self-care in prevention of burnout, and treatment avenues for both burnout and trauma resolution

Biography

Dr Caroline Lloyd is a GP with special interest in mental health, and the treatment of trauma which has become the ongoing focus of her work. Dr Lloyd is an experienced Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) trauma therapist, who has also done further training in Schema Therapy (ST), Ego State (parts) Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).

Following her passion for assisting her clients with their mental health as a GP, Dr Lloyd completed a Master of Counselling at Monash University in 2019.
Dr Lloyd’s interest in eating disorders came about from her involvement with bariatric surgery where she has been assisting clients with disordered eating behaviour for over 10 years. Dr Lloyd has a thorough understanding of the complex needs of clients with bulimia, compulsive eating and other eating disorders (except anorexia as this is an even more specialised field sometimes requiring hospital admission).

Dr Lloyd’s is the founder and principal therapist at The Therapy Nest.