
This workshop is designed for clinicians at all career stages who want to prioritize self-care and sustain a fulfilling, long-term career in mental healthcare. It’s a perfect opportunity for individuals, workplace teams, or longtime colleagues to reconnect, deepen their clinical skills, and support one another in a meaningful, restorative setting.
This experiential workshop offers a personal space to reflect upon the realities of burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma. Participants will have opportunities to individually process their own experiences using principles from evidence-based approaches such as Narrative Therapy, Mindfulness, and Polyvagal Theory, while group discussion adds depth through shared insight.
The workshop concludes with an applied component focused on developing sustainable strategies that support clinician well-being and enhance client healing in daily clinical practice.
1. Articulate their personal career narrative identifying key moments, influences, and transitions
2. Explore and connect with some of their own physical & emotional experiences, deepening self-awareness while discussing common challenges experienced by helping professionals including burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma
3. Differentiate between self and others by processing emotions, thoughts, beliefs, and body sensations with clinical awareness
4. Apply ethical decision-making models promoting professional integrity
5. Clinically evaluate limitations such as human capacity, professional boundaries, and motivational factors
6. Create sustainable strategies to promote clinician well-being and enhance the healing process for clients within daily clinical practice
Ashlee Coleman has been in private practice since 2013. Her clinical work focuses on complex trauma, dissociation, and attachment-related presentations, including many clients who have not responded to more traditional approaches. She is known for integrating EMDR therapy with developmentally informed and trauma-sensitive interventions, helping clients move toward greater stability and meaningful change.
CCFAM Training has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7105. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CCFAM Training is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
This training is non-refundable.