Set the Stage for Resiliency: Caring for Yourself While Caring for Others
- Recognize how compassion fatigue and burnout show up for therapists
- Explore the personal and professional impact of carrying others’ pain
- Apply a neurophysiological perspective to explore how therapeutic experiences affect the therapist’s nervous system
- Identify the impact of compassion fatigue by discovering the causes, symptoms, treatments
- Practical strategies for fostering resiliency in your work and life
Being vs. Doing: Deepening into Presence, Intersubjectivity and Attunement
- Differentiate therapist “doing” vs. “being” modes in clinical practice
- Apply vulnerability to deepen therapeutic intimacy
- Cultivate presence and attunement when outcomes are uncertain
- Shift from objectification to intersubjectivity in client relationships
- Use “open discover” as a client-centered therapeutic stance
Being Impacted by Clients: Identify Unconscious Internal Reactions
- Normalize therapists’ internal emotional reactions
- Recognize and work with therapist shame and guilt in the therapeutic process
- Identify acting-in and acting-out strategies in clinical practice
- Analyze how “good” vs. “bad” therapist narratives affect clinical presence
- Acknowledge and address taboo inner experiences that influence therapy
Use Countertransference to Deepen Relational Work: Shifting Therapeutic Enactments
- Identify countertransference patterns in trauma-informed practice
- Differentiate personal (“Big C”) and diagnostic (”little c”) countertransference
- Address unmanaged empathy to reduce over-identification and burnout
- Recognize covert and therapeutic narcissism in clinical interactions
- Apply countertransference awareness to shift therapeutic enactments
Translate Inner Depth to Therapeutic Presence & Effectiveness: Deepen Attunement on 3 Levels
- Apply therapeutic attunement on personal, interpersonal, and transpersonal levels
- Use embodied presence as a tool for co-regulation with clients
- Implement relational attunement strategies to support rupture-repair
- Integrate transpersonal awareness into clinical effectiveness
- Explore obstacles in the way of a therapist asking for and receiving professional and personal support
Experiential Practices: Integrate Theory into Practice
- Self-reflection: bring awareness to what clients evoke within therapists
- Dyadic reflection: practice presence through structured self-reflection
- Guided exploration: sense, track, and share inner states
- Intersubjective exploration: reflect on the impact clients have on a therapist’s inner experience and the therapeutic relationship
- “Conflexion” practices: integrating transpersonal awareness therapy
Meta-Themes Throughout the Day
- Promote therapist sustainability and prevent burnout
- Apply authenticity as a clinical tool for relational effectiveness
- Balance therapeutic structure with openness to discover
- Integrate somatic, relational, and transpersonal dimensions in practice
- Risks, limitations, and ethical considerations





