Mindfulness Modalities To Combat Burnout In The Helping Profession

This workshop focuses on using integrative trauma informed, somatic mindfulness-based interventions to reduce and effectively manage chronic stress, burnout, and compassion fatigue in helping professionals to improve overall wellness and client care.

Primary issues to be covered include understanding and defining burnout and compassion fatigue, how they negatively impact overall wellness and patient care, as well as understanding the role of the nervous system for clinicians and patients.

Participants will also learn about the stress response and how to intentionally stimulate the related relaxation response to better manage and decrease compassion fatigue. Participants will learn practical somatic coping skills and effective nervous system regulation techniques to reduce their own burnout and increase awareness around the signs of chronic stress and burnout.

2 CEs are available for NYS LMHCs, LMSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, LCATs, NYS Licensed Psychologists and NYS Licensed Psychoanalysts upon completion of training.

Objectives:

Upon completion of the training, participants will

-be able to define burnout and compassion fatigue and understand the effects on the emotional, mental, relational and physical wellbeing of helping professionals and client care.

-participants will discover effective ways to manage and reduce the ongoing stress and challenges of the mental health field through the use of trauma-informed mindfulness interventions and nervous system regulation practices.

-participants will identify symptoms of chronic stress, burnout, and compassion fatigue in helping professionals and learn potential solutions and strategies to improve them.

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In accordance with the NY State Department of Education guidelines, in order to receive continuing education contact hours, a participant needs to be present for the duration of the workshop/training. Therefore, participants who arrive late or leave the event early will not be granted a certificate of completion.

​Cancellation Policy: Refunds will be provided for cancellations made in writing up to the day before the event.

Accommodations and Accessibility: HVPD welcomes participants with diverse abilities. Please contact us at info@hudsonvalleyprofessionaldevelopment to request accessibility accommodations. Accommodation requests are considered in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.

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Rebecca Marcus is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who works with adults and teens, helping them heal from life’s challenges to allow them to thrive.

She specializes in anxiety and relationships and uses a trauma-informed approach. She has expertise in mindfulness-based, and attachment, and relational practices, and uses these tools to empower individuals to overcome their fears so they can live the life they want. By providing guidance and support, she helps her clients develop self-awareness and build effective coping skills to allow them to break free from anxiety and stress.

Rebecca received her Bachelor's Degree in Psychology with minors in Fine Arts and Disaster Studies from the State University of New York at New Paltz and later went on to receive her Masters in Social Work, from New York University with a focus on clinical practice and trauma. She has also pursued post-graduate training at the Family Institute and the School of Psychotherapy in Israel. Rebecca previously treated addictions and other co-occurring disorders as part of the Outpatient program at Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation in New York. She also worked with adolescents young adults at SoHo CBT+ Mindfulness Center. She currently has a private practice in New York City.

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