Surviving & Thriving in High-Trauma Clinical Work: Practical Tools to Prevent Burnout, Secondary Trauma, and Compassion Fatigue

  • Friday, May 15, 2026
  • 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
  • Zoom
  • 80

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Friday, May 15th, 2026

Online on ZOOM

1:30 PM - 4:30 PM EST

Description: Working with high-impact caseloads can quietly drain even seasoned clinicians. This training translates current evidence on burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion fatigue into immediately usable tools for therapy rooms, agencies, and private practices. Attendees will learn how to screen risk with brief measures, introduce micro-interventions that fit inside a 50-minute hour, and build a realistic 3-2-1 resilience plan that protects clinical judgment, empathy, and longevity in the field. Content is trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and designed for direct clinical application.

Learning Objectives

Objective 1: Differentiate burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion fatigue, including common risk indicators observable in clinical practice.
Objective 2: Administer and interpret at least one brief screening tool and map results to individualized action steps.
Objective 3: Demonstrate three micro-interventions clinicians can use personally and teach to clients.
Objective 4: Develop a 3-2-1 Action Plan and identify two system-level levers to sustain resilience over time.

Presenter

 

Jessica Straughn, LMHC, LPC, NCC, CCTP-II


Jessica Straughn, LMHC, LPC, NCC, CCTP-II, is the founder of Supportive Counseling, LLC, a virtual, trauma-informed practice serving women across Florida and Colorado. Before private practice, Jessica spent over a decade in high-trauma roles—including Victim Advocate in the State Attorney’s Office (SVU/DV) and Victim Specialist & Violence Prevention Educator with the UCF Police Department—supporting survivors through crisis response, mass-casualty events, and complex legal systems. She speaks regularly for professional associations on trauma, Narrative Exposure Therapy, and clinician resilience, and is committed to translating evidence into warm, practical tools clinicians can use the very next day.


CeBroker Tracking No. 20-1338965

This event is offered by SMHCA - Approved Continuing Education Provider - CE Broker Provider #: 50-13528.  This course is approved by the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling, LMHC, LMFT, LCSW and Registered Interns.


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