DistressRx™: Turning Stress into Strength
Join us for an interactive lecture exploring the DistressRx™ Framework—where we uncover your unique stress type, reveal hidden strengths and blind spots, and discover how these patterns shape relationships at work and beyond.
IRB Exempt — No identifiers are collected.
Discover Your Stress Type
Every person experiences all six forms of distress—but one is dominant. During this session, we’ll identify your primary Distress Type and explore how it influences your reactions, relationships, and resilience. Understanding this pattern is the first step to transforming reactivity into regulation.
What You’ll Learn
- ✔️ Your dominant Distress Type and what it reveals about your stress response.
- ✔️ How each type’s strengths can become blind spots under pressure.
- ✔️ The ways Distress Types interact in relationships and teams.
- ✔️ How awareness of your type fosters self-regulation and growth.
What We Found
The DistressRx™ Assessment was validated with over 350 women physicians and revealed six clear, consistent patterns—each aligning with the six Distress Types identified in the Transform® Model.
Each type represents a unique way of responding to stress, emotion, and challenge. By identifying these patterns, we gain powerful insight into how healthcare professionals cope under high pressure and how they can strengthen resilience.
“DistressRx™ helps doctors see that their stress response isn’t a flaw — it’s a strategy that can be evolved.”
Connecting Science and Growth
The DistressRx™ Model bridges two disciplines — psychology and coaching. While traditional tools like the Distress Tolerance Scale focus on reducing negative emotions, DistressRx™ goes further: it helps individuals learn from their emotional patterns.
It reframes stress as a catalyst for development rather than a condition to avoid. Examples include:
- ✨ Pulling away conserves emotional energy.
- ✨ Taking control restores order.
- ✨ Seeking approval fosters connection.
When doctors recognize these patterns, they can use them intentionally — transforming reactivity into self-awareness and strength.
How This Helps Doctors
For Each Doctor
The DistressRx™ helps physicians understand their own stress habits and develop healthier coping mechanisms. This deepens emotional resilience and improves job satisfaction.
For Coaches & Mentors
It provides a framework to guide growth. Coaches can choose the best strategies — reflection, communication, or boundaries — based on a doctor’s unique distress type.
For Hospitals & Leaders
Aggregated results reveal organizational patterns — such as control, perfectionism, or validation-seeking — empowering leadership to build wellness programs that meet real emotional needs.
For Education & Training
Integrating DistressRx™ into CME and residency programs fosters reflection, regulation, and empathy — the emotional intelligence skills vital for modern medicine.
For Therapists
Therapists can use DistressRx™ alongside modalities like CBT or DBT to personalize interventions and align treatment with emotional patterns.
Changing How We See Stress
The DistressRx™ model reframes stress as a teacher, not a threat. It helps doctors approach difficult emotions with curiosity and compassion, supporting what we call developmental resilience — the ability to grow through self-understanding.
This approach is redefining leadership and culture in medicine, proving that growth and compassion are not opposites — they are the foundation of sustainable healthcare.
Turning Stress into Strength
The DistressRx™ model empowers physicians to view stress not as failure, but as feedback. By understanding your dominant stress type, you can regulate more effectively, lead with empathy, and transform emotional reactivity into resilience.
This approach—called developmental resilience—reminds us that health, leadership, and compassion are built not by avoiding stress, but by understanding it. DistressRx™ is changing how we talk about emotion, growth, and well-being in medicine.
IRB Exempt — No identifiers are collected.