Burnout Among Mental Health Professionals:
An Ethical Problem with a Creative Solution
May 11, 2025 / 10:15 AM-12:15 PM Pacific Time
Banish burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious traumatization, & secondary traumatic stress
Find out about the impact of burnout & its ethical ramifications
Use your innate creativity & already-existing strengths in self-care
Learn the Expressive Therapies Continuum/Life Enrichment Model that supports integrative choices for upping your resilience game
The work you love is taking a toll on your ability to do the work you love
Mental health professionals like yourself are natural-born givers who make sense of the world through their feelings. But what happens when you give and give, particularly in times of crisis, and try to take care of yourself after you’ve taken care of everyone else?
The result can be burnout, a classic darkening of mood and motivation related to your work that also negatively impacts your personal life.
You need accurate information to help you steer clear of professional pitfalls
This presentation will help you differentiate between burnout and its companion syndromes so you can understand the role of internalized administrative expectations and working conditions in putting you at risk for ethics violations and/or career abandonment.
Fortunately, these outcomes are optional, though self-care tips and tricks are seldom enough to defend against them.
I teach therapists how to enrich themselves and the services they provide
What’s needed is a global/holistic solution that helps you revive creative mental processes so you can generate adaptive, rather than habitual, responses to your experiences in-session as well as outside of the office.
I’ll introduce you to Hinz’s Life Enrichment Model for supporting integrative choices that move you beyond self-care and promote the development resilience in the face of burnout. Using the structure of this model, which is based on the Expressive Therapies Continuum, you will begin to examine your own self-care strategies so you can celebrate strengths and address challenges in your quest to practice—and live—optimally.
Are you ready to find your superpower and create a better outcome for those in your care?
Join me for two hours that will change the way you think about your professional practice and your role in helping others reach their treatment goals. Register today and get a jump start on your plan to safeguard the most important agent of change in therapy—you!
Investment: $40.00 USD
Learning Objectives: Attendees will be able to
define the differences between burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious traumatization, and secondary traumatic stress.
describe at least three (3) ethical ramifications of burnout and its impact on professional practice.
identify at least two (2) personal strengths and challenges in self-care strategies for defending against burnout.
name a model that supports integrative choices for moving beyond self-care and developing resilience in the face of burnout.
explain how integration, resilience, and creativity relate to practicing—and living—optimally.
CECs/CEUs: 2.0 hours (Note: at this time continuing education credits for presentations offered through Megan VanMeter PLLC are only available for individuals who are licensed through the MFT, professional counseling, or social work boards of the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council. Please see the “Continuing Education” section below for more information.)
Are you ready to stop chasing after the self-care unicorn?
More information about the webinar
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Megan VanMeter
ATR-BC, LPC (AZ), LMHC (IN), LPC-AT/S (TX)Megan is licensed by the counseling boards in the U.S. states of Arizona, Indiana, and Texas, and she also holds board-certification status through the Art Therapy Credentials Board. Her experiences in behavioral health, correctional, educational, medical, and social services settings exposed her to the wide world of burnout and led her to question the training process of helpers, which doesn’t address knowledge and skills in the area of burning bright throughout one’s career. Megan is especially interested in burnout prevention, intervention, and postvention for helping professionals and has a virtual private practice where she provides art therapy to support these special people and other carers/givers.
She has served on professional boards and committees at local, regional, and national levels within the U.S. A scholar at heart, Megan enjoys doing research, giving presentations, and writing about the Expressive Therapies Continuum. She is hopeful that a new generation of therapists will have the opportunity to learn the ETC via methods similar to the ones her professors used. Megan is cultivating a community of ETC enthusiasts and provides ETC supervision and webinars to help others develop appreciation for both the basics and the nuances of this important framework.
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A partial refund (50%) will be made for cancelations requests received 5-9 days in advance of an event.
Sorry, no refund (0%) will be made for cancellation requests received 0-4 days before an event.
Cancelation requests received:
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At this time continuing education credits for presentations offered through Megan VanMeter PLLC are only available for individuals who are licensed through the MFT, professional counseling, or social work boards of the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council. An application will be made for continuing ed provider status through a national (U.S.) entity, and this entails the submission of materials from previously run educational sessions to prove that Megan VanMeter PLLC is familiar with the organization's requirements.
The current webinar being offered will serve this purpose. In the meantime it is hoped that you will see the value in these Expressive Therapies Continuum educational sessions.
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It is your responsibility to ensure that you are using the technology and equipment that best facilitate your online learning experience. Megan VanMeter PLLC does not assume liability for lagging technology/equipment used by any attendee. Refunds will only be made available if technology and equipment failures on Megan VanMeter PLLC’s end contribute to difficulties with the presentation.
Please note that Megan VanMeter PLLC does not assume liability for misapplication or misuse of the content and information covered in this presentation. This presentation is being provided for informational purposes only; your attendance does not constitute a formal agreement or arrangement for treatment, training, or any other purpose.
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