Professional Satisfaction for Therapists: Coping with Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, Secondary and Vicarious Trauma

Presented by Tami Micsky, DSW, LSW, CT on 12-10-2021 at 9 a.m. Pacific (2 p.m. Eastern) to 11 a.m. Pacific (2 p.m. Eastern)

Mental health professionals face a variety of unique challenges, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has increased stress, uncertainty, and loss experiences. To maintain wellness and professional vitality, therapists should have an understanding of the risks of burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary and vicarious trauma, as well as effective methods to counter various risk factors.

In this 2-hour continuing education webinar, Tami Micsky, DSW, LSW, CT will explain how mental health clinicians can utilize tools to assess burnout, personal professional satisfaction, and current coping mechanisms. Micsky will share strategies for incorporating self-care into daily practices and assist participants in creating a measurable, goal-oriented self-care plan to increase their professional satisfaction.

This introductory continuing education webinar is designed to help mental health clinicians:

  1. Describe and analyze the concepts of burnout, compassion fatigue, secondary trauma, and vicarious trauma.
  2. Describe risk and protective factors for burnout, compassion fatigue, secondary trauma, and vicarious trauma, particularly for mental health therapists.
  3. Analyze the concepts of compassion satisfaction, vicarious resilience, and vicarious transformation.
  4. Using evidence-based tools, assess one’s professional quality of life and indicators of burnout.
  5. Evaluate one's current self-care practices and utilize techniques for avoiding burnout, compassion fatigue, secondary trauma, and vicarious trauma.
  6. Create a personalized and measurable self-care plan.

Statement of program material’s accuracy, utility, and risks: Given the nature of the course topic, it is possible that participants may recognize personal and professional challenges, including emotional exhaustion, burnout, or signs of vicarious trauma. Participants who experience a troubling reaction should reach out to their personal and professional network for support. References for course material will be provided.

Declaration identifying any potential conflict of interest and/or commercial support: This webinar includes no conflict of interest or commercial support.

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Continuing Education (CE) Information

2 CE contact hours will be provided by GoodTherapy for attending this web conference in its entirety. 

GoodTherapy is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements.

GoodTherapy.org, provider #1352, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 3/30/2022 – 3/30/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 2 continuing education credits.

GoodTherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GoodTherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

GoodTherapy, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0395. GoodTherapy, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0022 and for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0031.

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Meet the Presenter

Tami Micsky, DSW, LSW, CT

Tami Micsky, DSW, LSW, CT

Tami Micsky, DSW, LSW, CT is an assistant professor and BSW program director for the Social Work Program at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. She is a Contributing Faculty in the MSW program at Walden University.

Micsky is a licensed social worker and certified thanatologist, who has been working with children, teens, and young adults for 25 years. Micsky received her BSW from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, her MSSA from Case Western Reserve University, and a DSW from Millersville & Kutztown Universities.

Micsky is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, the Council on Social Work Education, the Association of Baccalaureate Program Directors, and the Association of Death Education and Counseling. Her research interests include self-care and wellness in social work education, grief and loss, and distance education.

Continuing Education Provider Approvals

  • aceGoodTherapy.org is Approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
  • Logo GoodTherapy.org has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6380. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. GoodTherapy.org is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
  • aceGoodTherapy.org, provider #1352, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/30/2019 - 03/30/2022.
  • GoodTherapy.org, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0395.
  • GoodTherapy.org, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0022 and for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0031.

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