Stephanie (Stevi) Shively, PhD

Dr. Shively (Stevi) is an adjunct instructor at the University of Minnesota’s Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses related to narrative and wellbeing.

Stevi received her PhD in Medical Humanities from the Institute for the Medical Humanities at UTMB, where she studied traumatization of physicians through the practice of medicine. After graduating, she served as a Medical Burnout and Traumatization Consultant in Minneapolis, where she has worked with major healthcare organizations including the Minnesota Medical Association. Stevi’s consulting work eventually led her to realize that she wanted to do more to assist struggling clinicians directly, however, which inspired her to return to school. She is currently enrolled in the Counselor Education master’s program at the University of Minnesota with plans of pursuing her license as a clinical mental health counselor. Stevi is completing two concurrent internships at the University of Minnesota: one in career counseling at the Career Counseling and Assessment Clinic and the other in clinical mental health counseling at the Boynton Student Mental Health Clinic. Once fully licensed, Stevi hopes to work with clinicians, student clinicians, graduate students, and college students. As a counselor she is heavily influenced by Narrative Theory and has a special interest in burnout, perfectionism, academic/occupational distress, self-compassion, and neurodivergence.

Stevi has presented nationally on burnout and clinician distress at conferences/groups, including the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, the Health Humanities Consortium, the Beryl Institute, and most recently at The Generalists in Medical Education annual conference. She is particularly interested in the intersection of the formal curriculum and the hidden curriculum in healthcare education and developing creative methods for fostering culture change to improve clinician and student wellbeing.