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Radical Self-Care: How to Protect Yourself and Your Clients from Compassion Fatigue

Virtual Event

September 19, 2025 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am PDT

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Compassion fatigue, also known as empathy exhaustion, is common in the helping professions. This webinar provides an evidence-based model for assessing compassion strain, along with proactive steps that therapists and supervisors can implement immediately to ensure a robust recovery from any level of compassion fatigue. Liz will discuss the differences between compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and STS.

Learn how compassion fatigue can affect client treatment, and how to help clients recognize it in their own lives. Liz will share concrete solutions and strategies for supporting ourselves, our peers, our clients, and those we supervise. We will also discuss how to create an institutional prevention and recovery plan, and how to amend it for clients.

Learning objectives:

  • Identify the protective skills and practices that prevent compassion fatigue and help to reverse symptoms of emerging impairment 
  • Name and describe the symptoms of professional compassion fatigue as well the risk factors for general compassion fatigue
  • Explain and discuss the difference between compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and secondary traumatic stress
  • Conduct a self-assessment regarding the impact of compassion strain on yourself and those you supervise

CE credits available for psychologists*, therapists*, counselors*, and social workers*.

Please email event.support@newporthealthcare.com for continuing education details. *Dependent on location.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the speakers during these presentations are solely those of the speakers and do not reflect the views or positions of the organization or any affiliated entities. The organization is not responsible for any statements, advice, or opinions shared by the speakers during these sessions.

Presented By

Liz Jorgensen, CADC
Liz Jorgensen, CADC
Title Expert Consultant
Organization Insight Counseling, LLC
A longtime consultant to Newport Healthcare, Liz has 30 years of experience in adolescent and adult psychotherapy and counseling. A parent of four grown children, she is a nationally recognized expert in counseling, particularly in engaging resistant teens and motivating them to change. Liz is the owner and director of Insight Counseling in Ridgefield, Connecticut, and has created numerous parent seminars, as well as a middle and high school curriculum focused on substance use prevention.

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