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Working with military and veteran clients is meaningful and deeply rewarding. But witnessing suffering can result in vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout.
This recorded session will give you the tools you need to incorporate self-care in your practice and in your life. You'll learn to recognize essential signs of therapist stress and explore personal and organizational factors and strategies that help prevent it. Get the support you need to implement an effective self-care plan.
What you'll take away
- Stabilization
Symptoms of burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma - Manage work-related distress
Two strategies for work with military veterans that improve treatment outcomes - Address organizational factors
Develop a plan for an organizational factor impacting burnout
Dr. Wen covers the specific occupational stressors related to work with military veterans, assessment strategies, person-centred strategies for managing distress, and how to build a practical self-care plan.
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN and FR
Your Speaker
Irina Wen, PhD, is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Langone Health and a clinical supervisor at the Military Family Clinic at NYU Langone Health, which she helped establish in 2012 and directed between 2014-2019. She is a certified EFT Therapist and Supervisor and is passionate about helping people build stronger, more secure connections with themselves and others.
Dr. Wen offers trainings in the community on topics related to vicarious trauma and self-care, in addition to trauma assessment and treatment and working with couples. She provides individual and couples therapy, training, and consultation in her private practice, Touchstone Psychology, PLLC.
We’re that confident you'll find this learning experience to be all that's promised and more than you expected.
