Certified Life Coach

I coach a diverse group of healthcare and non-healthcare professionals regarding career planning, resilience, burnout, and grief as well providing support in building general life skills. Shortly after retiring from clinical medicine, I became a Masters Certified Life Coach.

Through my career passion to better understand the complexities and multifactorial nature of patients struggling with pain, I realized I could help more people by working with health professionals and other community members struggling to articulate their life goals. Burnout and the need for strong resilience skills are often implicated in the struggle to find clear purpose and direction, and I address those areas of concern directly when required.

In addition to my coaching work, I continue to educate health professionals at Project ECHO on a variety of important public health epidemics and topics crucial for clinicians: pain management and opioid overdose, resilience, climate change and health, adverse childhood experiences, and violence prevention.

Joanna G. Katzman graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Human Biology. She went on to earn her MD at Yale School of Medicine and her MSPH at U.C.L.A. Dr. Katzman completed then neurology training at U.C.L.A before moving to the University of New Mexico where she practiced neurology, and pain and addiction management for over 25 years. She is now a Professor Emeritus at the University of New Mexico and an Adjunct Professor at the Yale School of Public Health.