Healing the Healer: Compassion Fatigue, Vicarious Trauma, and Self-Care
This workshop addresses compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, secondary stress, and burnout in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and related clinical work. It covers self-care, grounding, post-session processing, and preparation strategies for working with non-ordinary states of consciousness.
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Healing the Healer is a workshop focused on therapist self-care in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and other clinical settings involving non-ordinary states of consciousness. The course examines compassion fatigue, vicarious traumatization, burnout, secondary post-traumatic stress, and the role of preparation and post-session processing in reducing countertransference stress. The workshop brings together clinical theories, traditions, and philosophies related to self-care, with attention to practical tools that health professionals can incorporate into their work. It is described as appropriate for healthcare professionals as well as the general public. The program includes presentations and two hours of self-care activities that do not earn continuing education credit. A total of six continuing education credits are available for the course.
Who is this for?
Healthcare professionals, including physicians, psychologists, therapists, nurses, chaplains, and other healthcare professionals; also appropriate for the general public.
About the Provider
Polaris Insight Center is a San Francisco Bay Area ketamine-assisted psychotherapy clinic and APA-approved training center co-founded by MAPS-trained therapist Veronika Gold LMFT, offering a comprehensive KAP training program of online didactic modules, in-person experiential retreats, consultation groups, and a 1–2 year practitioner certificate. The center provides KAP patient care while training clinicians across foundational, advanced, and special topics series in ketamine and psychedelic-assisted therapy.
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- Price$200
- FormatLive Classes
- Lifecycle statusNo New Dates
- SkillsPsychotherapyKetamine-Assisted TherapySelf-care practices to reduce burnout and compassion fatigueWays to reduce boundary violations through self-careSomatic techniques for working with griefgrounding techniquesself-care planningpost-session processingburnout preventionvicarious trauma awarenesscompassion fatigue managementboundary protectionUnderstanding compassion fatigueUnderstanding vicarious trauma
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