Dr. Virginia Hurdon is a holistic wellbeing coach and retired palliative care physician who supports doctors navigating burnout, overwhelm, life transitions, and retirement. Her coaching focuses on helping physicians reconnect with themselves outside of their professional identity and create a more sustainable, meaningful life. She combines practical wellbeing strategies with deeper exploration around values, purpose, identity, and personal fulfillment.
Virginia’s coaching approach is grounded, compassionate, and reflective. She helps physicians create “breathing room” in lives that often feel overloaded by clinical demands, caregiving responsibilities, and constant pressure to perform. Her work emphasizes self-compassion, sustainable change, and rediscovering joy both inside and outside medicine.
Dr. Hurdon practiced for many years as a home palliative care physician, supporting patients and families through serious illness and end-of-life care. Following her own experience with burnout and a personal health crisis, she transitioned into professional coaching focused on physician wellbeing and quality of life.
She is a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC) and a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation. She also trained through the Kresser Institute as an ADAPT Functional Health Coach.
In addition to one-on-one coaching, Virginia facilitates group coaching, workshops, and speaking engagements on physician wellness, burnout, retirement, and life transitions. She has also trained physicians in stress-reduction techniques and wellbeing practices.
Virginia’s coaching work is deeply informed by her own lived experience of physician burnout, overwhelm, and recovery. She openly shares that she reached a personal breaking point after years of pushing through exhaustion and emotional strain within medical culture. Her recovery journey led her to rethink her relationship with medicine, identity, and wellbeing.
Rather than returning to clinical practice, she chose to support fellow physicians through coaching, helping them navigate burnout, grief, rediscovery, retirement, and major life transitions. Her work reflects a strong belief that doctors deserve the same compassion and care they routinely provide to others.
