The Therapist Experience: Collective Trauma, Collective Healing
Thursdays Weekly April 20-June 8, 2023; 12-1:30pm ET 12 CEs | Live on Zoom Facilitators: Katherine Manners, MEd, LMFT; Lisa Tieszen, MA, LICSW Program Dates: April 20, April 27, May 4, May 11, May 18, May 25, June 1, June 8, 2023
The Therapist Experience will provide space for therapists to explore the toll that they (and their clients) have experienced over the past several years. In addition to hearing life stories, often traumatic, and bearing witness to the pain and suffering of clients, therapists have been inundated with requests and overwhelmed with the need during this unprecedented time in recent history. Though there’s barely been time to attend to the negative impacts of this overwhelming need (exhaustion, moral distress, hopelessness, etc.), we have paid even less attention to the positive impacts and satisfaction of knowing we are contributing to individual and family recovery, and to the wellbeing of our broader community by meeting those needs. Recognizing and amplifying these positive pieces play a critical role in sustaining therapists. These sessions will emphasize both negative and positive effects, along with conversation, support and development of sustaining strategies.
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be better able to:
Explore the negative and positive impacts of working with traumatized and/or suffering clients
Consider the ways that the COVID pandemic, the racial justice movement, political divisions, mass shootings and additional societal events have impacted clients and therapists and the therapeutic relationship
Learn strategies to incorporate into daily practice to mitigate the negative impacts and enhance the positive
Identify signs of burnout and what to do when it presents
Develop strategies for navigating burnout
Schedule (all times in ET): 12-12:15pm Introduction and agenda for the day 12:15-12:30pm Lecture: What is secondary trauma? The impact of trauma on the body 12:30-12:45pm Discussion group: How does the experience of secondary trauma impact your work professionally and personally? 12:45–1pm Experiential learning: What are strategies and coping skills for navigating secondary trauma? 1-1:15pm Discussion group: How do you want to incorporate this strategy into your larger life? 1:15-1:30pm Conclusion and gains made
Pricing: Free for Members (no CEs) $80 for Non-Members (no CEs) $120 for Members (with CEs) $144 for Non-Members (with CEs) Become an NEAFAST Member!
Katherine Manners, MEd, LMFT is the co-director of Resilience Works. She has worked in victim services, trauma and resilience for her entire professional career. Katherine provides crisis intervention response to events of community violence, mass violence, and critical incidents. She worked with victims and survivors following 9/11, the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, and many other crises. She also has a private psychotherapy practice in the Boston area.
Lisa Tieszen, MA, LICSW is the co-director of Resilience Works. Lisa was instrumental in expanding the Conference of Boston Teaching Hospitals' attention to domestic violence advocacy across the region's hospitals, community health centers, and public health departments. She founded the Safe Transitions program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, which has grown to encompass responses to domestic, sexual and community violence. Lisa provides crisis response services, which have included providing clinical support during the mass shootings at women's health centers in Brookline, MA in 1994, the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, and Hurricane Harvey in 2017. She has a private psychotherapy practice in the Boston area.
This activity is pending certification by the New England Association for Family and Systemic Therapy (NEAFAST) on behalf of the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Allied Mental Health & Human Services Professions for LMFT professional continuing education.
This activity is pending certification by the Massachusetts Mental Health Counselors Association, Inc. on behalf of the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Allied Mental Health & Human Services Professions for LMHC professional continuing education.
This activity is pending certification by the National Association of Social Workers Massachusetts Chapter on behalf of the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Allied Mental Health & Human Services Professions for LICSW professional continuing education.
Please note: It is the participant’s responsibility to check with their individual state boards to verify CE requirements for their state.
This program is being offered independent of any commercial support or conflict of interest. Clinicians with any level of experience are welcome to participate.
Upon completion, you will receive an evaluation about the program. You must complete it within 14 days in order to receive your CE certificate.
Cancellation Policy: Please email us at [email protected] if you are unable to make it. We will give a full reimbursement for cancellations one month prior to the event.
