Healing the Healer:
Compassion Fatigue, Vicarious Trauma, and Self-Care
Module Price:
$325
6 CE Credits available for $49
Upcoming Dates:
September 28
Time:
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Pacific Time Zone • LIVE WEBINAR VIA ZOOM
Instructors:
Veronika Gold, LMFT • Christine Pateros, MA, RN • Sonia Telle, LMFT • Amy Hyun Swart, LMFT • Florian Birkmayer, MD • Cathy Skipper • Serena Malkani, MA • Harvey Schwartz, PhD
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These programs are designed to provide interested physicians, psychologists, therapists, nurses, chaplains, and other healthcare professionals with principles and procedures of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy in a clinical setting.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
In this module, we focus on the specifics of working with non-ordinary states of consciousness in psychotherapy, and the importance of self-care, processing material post-session, and preparation strategies for psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy sessions to prevent countertransference stress and burnout. We integrate diverse clinical theories, traditions, and philosophies on therapist self-care, offering participants an increasingly wide-angle lens on the evolving field of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and grounding it in clinical wisdom. We give attention to understanding vicarious traumatization, burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary post-traumatic stress. Teachings are appropriate for healthcare professionals as well as the general public. Healthcare professionals will be able to incorporate the tools and practices offered in this program in ways beneficial to clients or patients. We include a combination of presentations for a total of six continuing education credits and participation in two hours of self-care activities that will not earn continuing education credits.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After completing this course, participants will be able to:
- List two grounding techniques to use before and during work with clients in NOSC
- Explain the importance of healer self-care to prevent secondary/provider PTSD burnout, compassion fatigue
- Discuss two ways in which good self-care is essential for prevention of boundary violations
- List two ways in which unconscious themes/shadow material can interfere with therapists’ ability to be present for their clients
- List five dimensions of self-care to prevent burnout and vicarious traumatization
- Describe one somatic technique that can be used for working with grief
Information on Continuing Education Credit for Health Professionals:
Polaris Insight Center provides didactic, experiential, and residential training in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. These programs are designed to provide interested physicians, psychologists, therapists, nurses, and other healthcare professionals with principles and procedures of KAP and how to use ketamine in combination with psychotherapy in a clinical setting.
We offer the training in multiple modules with Module 1 being a required course for Modules 2-5 and the Practice Module. Taking modules in the sequence is recommended but not required, as each module builds on the knowledge and skills taught in the previous module.
Cost:
Healing the Healer is $325 ($300 + a $25 non-refundable administrative fee) and 6 CE credits are available for an additional $49.
Cancellation Policy: Participants need to cancel up to 2 weeks in advance to receive a 100% refund of the $200. If canceled after the 2-weeks-in-advance period they can use the credit for a future training or receive a 50% refund.
Information on Continuing Education Credit for Health Professionals
- CE credits for psychologists are provided by Polaris Insight Center which is sponsoring this program. Polaris Insight Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Polaris Insight Center maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
- The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
- LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
- For questions about enrolling in CEs for psychologists, LCSWs, LPCCs, LEPs, and LMFT or any other CE questions, contact us at ce@polarisinsight.com.
- Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA), a co-sponsor of this program, is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the course concludes.
- For questions about CEs for nurses, visit www.spiritualcompetencyacademy.com or contact the Spiritual Competency Academy at info@spiritualcompetencyacademy.com.
- Other questions about training can be emailed to our Training Coordinator at training@polarisinsight.com.
MODULE INSTRUCTORS
Sonia Troiani Doulton earned her Diploma and Advanced Diploma in Integrative Counseling and Psychotherapy from The Minster Centre, London, and her Master’s in Integrative Psychotherapy from Middlesex University. She completed the program in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy and Research at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and the program in MDMA Psychotherapy with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). She trained in Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) with Polaris Insight Center and in 5-MeO-DMT therapy with private teachers. She’s co-founder of Soma Institute, offering legal psilocybin retreats and training, and Ceremony Health, offering ketamine-assisted group psychotherapy. She is an integration facilitator for San Francisco Psychedelic Society as well as in the Polaris Insight Center training program.
Chris Pateros has been in the healing arts as a clinician for four decades. Spanning holistic nursing to shamanic energy healing, Chris has served clients globally in her private healing practice since 2007. In this experiential presentation, Chris walks the healer through their own rites of initiation to energetic self-care. Participants will learn simple and integral self-clearing of the energy system with ritual and ceremony to activate deep roots as well as illuminating connection.
Amy Hyun Swart is a somatic and expressive arts-based psychotherapist specializing in working with grief and trauma. Alongside her work as a therapist, she teaches restorative yoga and meditation, and leads grief gatherings, rituals, and courses.
Through his commitment to his own Wounded Healer’s journey, he shares with his clients and students his deep understanding of what it is to be human and to find your own personal myth or soul’s purpose. His calling is to help people find their soul’s purpose in collaboration with his wife Cathy Skipper through AromaGnosis. Aromatics in the form of essential oils can be powerful allies to heal the relationship between the different parts of yourself, so that these parts cooperate instead of clashing. In their unique, unparalleled approach, they work in partnership with aromas – the expressions of the plants’ souls.
Cathy Skipper began her career in the healing arts. She trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama where she acquired a B’ED Hons in Drama, Applied Theater and Education. She worked in schools and social settings using drama as the medium for healing. Cathy moved to rural France in her mid-twenties and learnt to live in nature, traveling with a horse and cart and living off the land. In 2003, she settled in the South-East of France farming blueberries, medicinal plants and making organic wine. At the same time, she took the three-year herbal diploma at Ecole Lyonnaise de Plantes Medicinales, the largest herbal school in Europe. She went on to teach field botany, practical herbalism, healing the healer and aromatherapy at the school as well as co-authoring the aromatherapy book, Aromatic Medicine with the school’s founder and director Patrice de Bonneval.
Serena Malkani is an internationally recognized Sound Practitioner and Ayurvedic Counselor. She integrates her education in psychology with the medicinal qualities of Sound, Ayurveda, and Yoga to develop long-term preventative health care rituals.