Safeguarding Clinician Well-being for Ethical Client Care
A Systems Perspective on Proactive Response to the Burnout Epidemic
Live Online Zoom Training
July 11, 2025
9:00a.m. - 4:00p.m.
Presented By: Rebecca Lee, LICSW and Renee Pledger, LICSW
This live online training was developed by social work professionals for social work professionals and other mental health and healthcare professionals. This course will familiarize professionals with strategies and techniques to use as a part of their own professional well-being, as well as strategies to add to their knowledge base and repertoire of service to clients.
Who Should Attend: This training is designed for clinicians at all levels to deepen their understanding of burnout, explore alternatives to this systemic paradigm, and gain a better balanced knowledge of how to balance and prioritize their own mental health, thus increasing the health of the people who are intended to promote healing in our communities.
Training Overview
This training is specifically designed for health professionals who are experiencing their own burnout and/or supporting their clients through the experience of burnout.
Following the COVID-19 pandemic challenges for healthcare professionals and helping professionals have multiplied. Healthcare workers as a whole are actively facing a mental health crisis and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 50% of healthcare workers report feeling burned out, 44% of professionals were looking for a new job, trust in management decreased, anxiety and depression increased amongst health professionals.
Rather than the pandemic being a catalyst for improved systems, we’re seeing higher caseloads, fewer resources, more significant mental health concerns. The consequences of burnout are not only detrimental to workers, their mental health, their physical health, their families and their careers, but it has an extended impact on the people and communities they serve.
This training will explore more deeply the dichotomy between the systemic impact and natural solutions. Participants will explore contributors of systemic and individual burnout, myths that impede systemic change and identify opportunities for actionable change at both an individual and systemic level. This training is designed specifically for clinicians who are experiencing burnout themselves or clinicians who are working with clients in health professions who are navigating burnout.
Training Objectives:
Identify personal (individual/micro-level) and systemic (organization/ mezzo-macro level) risk factors to burnout.
Identify symptoms and impact of burnout for clinicians and the secondary impact on clients.
Describe the ethical importance in clinicians engaging in a non-isolated practice and necessity in community.
Name common workplace norms and culture that perpetuate a burnout model.
Identify how broad systems exacerbate conditioning toward burnout, such as role hierarchy, monetary value systems, etc.
Explain the difference between burnout, compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma.
Learn how systemic and natural qualifications can create protective factors for individuals.
Identify the fallacies of imposter syndrome and how to combat this norm
Choose tangible ways to set appropriate boundaries and the common places boundaries are missed.
Identify what a clinicians code of ethics must include and where it should be expanded.
Presenter Bio(s):
Renee David, LICSW
Renee is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Washington and California. Renee has been a private practice owner for 8 years. She is the founder of Sustainable Path, LLC - an organization that provides consulting, business coaching and online courses to private practice owners and other health care practitioners.
She has 15 years of experience working in mental health, medical and community settings as a clinician, consultant and mentor. Renee is continually seeking new knowledge and a better understanding of our innate capacity to heal and to be healed. This is reflected in her trainings, along with themes of advocacy, resilience, empowerment and systemic change.
Rebecca Lee, LICSW
Rebecca is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Washington and Oregon and Clinical Supervisor who has been providing individualized and group instruction for over 10 years. Rebecca is the founder of Just Living Therapy - an organization that supports clinicians working toward clinical licensure as well as offers a community program designed specifically to support clinicians experiencing burnout.
She has over 20 years’ experience working towards social justice in community, medical, and mental health settings as a clinician, teacher, consultant, and leader. Rebecca’s work is rooted in social justice, stating often, “we all do better, when we all do better together.” Therefore, her trainings are about connection and community, supporting clinicians to learn about deep healing and alleviation of suffering, not just for their clients, but for their own lives - creating a world where people can flourish living their most authentic lives.
Speaker Disclosures: No relevant financial or non-financial relationships
Amount of CE Credit Offered: NO CE’S ARE OFFERED FOR THIS COURSE
Learning Method: Live online fully interactive training, attendees may ask and answer questions throughout the presentation and participate in instructor-led discussions.. Following the live training, this course will also be available as a recorded video and electronic materials for asynchronous distant (non-interactive) learning.
Training Evaluation: Completion of the training evaluation is required to obtain a certificate of completion.
Content Level: Intermediate content
Target Audience: Social Workers, Counselors, Psychologists, Art Therapists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Physicians, Nurses, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Therapists, Other Mental Health or Healthcare Professionals. Especially for clinicians gaining independent licensure!
Requesting Accessibility Accommodations: Please email rootedandrisingeducation@gmail.com to request accessibility accommodations.
System Requirements:
Training will take place online, so you will need a device to access internet
Most recent version of Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Microsoft Edge
Zoom access
Refund Policy: In general, refunds will not be provided. However, if you have any grievances, please contact us at rootedandrisingeducation@gmail.com. Our Grievance Policy can be viewed here.
Cancellation Policy: If we cancel a course prior to receiving the training, a full refund will be provided to all participants.
Please email rootedandrisingeducation@gmail.com with any questions about the course.
Course Created: January 7, 2025
Course Category: Ethics
Course Tags: Affordable continuing education, ASWB continuing education, continuing education credit hours, Renee Pledger, Rebecca Lee, LICSW, LCSW, LMHC, LMFT, associate continuing education, self-care, self-care for clinicians, clinician burnout, burnout prevention, evidence based practices for burnout, mindfulness practices for burnout, clinician overwhelm, clinician imposter syndrome, social workers, counselors, therapists, mental health, mental health clinicians, marriage and family therapists, nurses, physicians, school counselors, self-care for helping professionals, self-care for healing professionals, self-care for therapists, integrative education, interactive education, live continuing education, MSWs, CSWAs, clinical education, clinical supervision, professional development, social work, therapy, training, education, behavioral health
Fees:
EARLY BIRD PRICE (if registered prior to June 15th) - $375 for all-day training
If registered after June 15th - $500