Her experience in coaching has shown that women physicians and dentists find fresh energy and joy when their daily lives begin to line up with their unique gifting, strengths and core values.

Many women hesitate to invest time and energy into their own personal growth. Dr. Tsen has seen that when a woman physician or dentist takes the proactive step to work with a coach, the benefits multiply outward as that fresh energy and joy positively impact her family, patients, colleagues and everyone within her circle of influence.

Dr. Tsen began coaching several years ago after discovering coaching through a one-day seminar provided by CMDA. She began using a coaching approach in her relationships with the many medical students she has mentored over the years. Seeing the growing impact coaching had on the lives of students and feeling a call to pursue certification, Ann then undertook advanced training and now works as a professional coach focusing on women in medicine. In addition to being a member of CMDA’s Coaching Ministry Advisory Council, her CMDA leadership experience includes serving with her husband as campus advisors to the local CMDA student group, hosting monthly dinner meetings for students and graduates since 2001. She has also worked with the Women in Medicine and Dentistry ministry as an Advisory Council member and national conference worship leader. At the 2014 WIMD conference in Philadelphia, Ann presented a workshop on coaching. After meeting with several of the attendees during and after the conference, she gained new insights into the power of Christian coaching centered on the unique needs and challenges of women physicians and dentists.

In addition to coaching, Ann volunteers part time at a free Christian clinic for the underserved where she acts as a medical student preceptor and a member of the clinic leadership team. She has also worked as a staff physician and clinical instructor at VA Hospitals and volunteered for a year at a hospital in the Middle East. She and her physician husband have two college-aged children and live in the Pacific Northwest. Ann enjoys singing, cycling, gardening and walking on the beach.

Testimony
“I was burning out as a physician and contemplating ways to quit medicine. Coaching completely turned this around. I went from being certain that I was done with medicine to becoming excited again about the ministry that God called me to. I am truly amazed at how quickly this transformation occurred. With a few direct questions and active listening, my coach helped me to clarify my jumbled thoughts. She pushed me to dream and imagine what my practice could possibly look like. Things that I didn’t think would ever happen are now taking place after just a few weeks.”