A New Approach to Self-Care: The Ethical Imperative of Daily Restoration

For mental health professionals who must regularly guard against burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatization, intentional self-care isn’t just essential; it’s a survival tool. If therapists don’t take proper care of themselves, they simply cannot do their work consistently and effectively.

Taking up an exercise program, going on a vacation, turning to supportive social networks—while helpful remedies to the stresses of the job—are not always feasible. How can we add “relax and rebalance” to our to-do lists when are schedules are already bursting with responsibilities?

This web conference will teach you how to build in simple self-care every day, even throughout the workday, to help you refresh emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. You will learn to differentiate between macro-self-care and the more subtle art of micro-self-care. Synthesizing the latest thinking in mindfulness, neuroscience, energy medicine, positive psychology, and spiritual disciplines, simple self-care strategies can offer immediate relief in doable, bite-sized nuggets—easy practices that can be seamlessly integrated into your current workday.

This restorative approach to self-care will offer practitioners tools for grounding, energizing, and relaxing. Developing the art of micro-self-care, both inside and outside of the office, will dramatically benefit you and the people whom you serve.

This web conference is intermediate instructional level and designed to help clinicians:

1. Outline the specific dangers of burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatization and how these will harm both the practitioner and the client.
2. Describe the difference between macro-self-care and micro-self-care.
3. Identify ways to weave restorative practices throughout the workday.
4. Determine how to manage hyperarousal during a session with a client.
5. Show ways to ground yourself before transitioning to home.

If you have any questions or concerns about this web conference, or would like more information, please contact us here.

Continuing Education (CE) Information

Two CE credits will be provided by GoodTherapy.org for attending this web conference in its entirety.

GoodTherapy.org is also an Approved Education Provider by NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals (provider #135463). Of the eight counselor skill groups ascribed to by NAADAC, this course is classified within counseling services.

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

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

GoodTherapy.org, SW CPE 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 #0395.

To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

Registration Information

Premium and Pro Membership with GoodTherapy includes access to this web conference at no additional cost, as well as other member benefits such as a profile listing in GoodTherapy's Therapist Directory. Not yet a member? Sign up for a Premium or Pro Membership, here.

Just want CE credits? Sign up for a monthly or annual CE Subscription with GoodTherapy to get unlimited access to our CE Program, including this event, other live CE web conferences, and hundreds of hours of homestudy courses.

Mental health professionals who are not members can attend this live web conference for $30.95 or access the homestudy recording for $15.50. Sign up here to purchase this CE course and earn a CE certificate.

If the event is canceled by GoodTherapy, registrants who purchased the event will be notified and the charge for the event will be refunded

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Highlights

It was a great reminder to practice what we preach to clients. - Karen L Waldman, PhD

This presentation was awesome and inspiring! - Tammy Young, MA, LMFT

​Such an important topic; I love that self-care is being promoted. - Sue Engstrom, MA, LPC-IT

Great presenter and applicable workshop! - Deanna Jacinto, MA, LMFT