What are the little things we can do to create ritual, reflection, and reduce stress as we navigate new transitions? As we enter into this upcoming school year and a new season, this re-released episode with Dr. Brenda Bursch will walk us through resilience tools — from setting boundaries to putting plants in your office — to navigate change with a bit more calm. Dr. Bursch, an expert in mental health and resilience, is a professor and clinical psychologist in the UCLA Departments Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences and Pediatrics. This re-released episode was originally our 36th episode in September 2021. 


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 Dr. Brenda Bursch

Dr. Bursch is a professor and clinical psychologist in the UCLA Departments Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences and Pediatrics, where she has been on faculty since 1994. Her area of clinical specialization is working with medically ill individuals and their family members. Since 2015, she has been developing evidence-based interventions for UCLA health professionals that are designed to protect them from the impact of the high stress and trauma that they encounter at work. Since 2018, she has further adapted these evidence-based interventions for professionals outside the healthcare field who have high stress jobs requiring a high level of performance.