Compassion Fatigue Recovery Masterclass: Strategies for Burnout, Vicarious Trauma & Sustainable Practice

Course overview

Helping professionals routinely bear witness to suffering, injustice, and trauma. Over time, this exposure can lead to burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma conditions that impact not only personal well-being but also clinical judgment, ethical practice, and the sustainability of one's work. This 6-hour training provides a trauma-informed, strengths-based framework for understanding and responding to the cumulative effects of caregiving through the lens of trauma stewardship. Learn to distinguish between burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma, recognize the 16 signs of trauma exposure response, and identify personal, relational, and systemic vulnerabilities. Gain practical strategies for prevention, early identification, and recovery including the Trauma Stewardship Five Directions to support sustainable, ethical practice without sacrificing yourself. Designed for clinicians, social workers, healthcare providers, educators, advocates, first responders, and others engaged in emotionally demanding helping roles seeking sustainable, ethical ways to continue their work long-term.