The Cost of Caring: Recognizing and Preventing Professional Burnout in Mental Health Practice (Friday, June 26, 2026)

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:00:00 GMT

PRESENTER: Paul Allen Jr. LMFT

Course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Registrants must attend the full 2 hours to receive CEs..

The educational goals of this workshop are straightforward. Participants will leave with a working vocabulary that distinguishes burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma with three conditions that are frequently conflated and therefore frequently mistreated. They will be able to identify personal warning signs they have likely been rationalizing, name the systemic and organizational forces that contribute to clinician distress, and apply prevention strategies that are specific, behavioral, and realistic for working clinicians. They will also understand why supervision and peer support function as protective factors rather than administrative obligations.

OBJECTIVES

In successfully completing and attending this presentation, participants will be able to:

1. Distinguish between burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma using validated clinical frameworks

2. Identify personal warning signs that clinicians are trained to minimize or rationalize

3. Name systemic and organizational contributors to clinician distress that exist independent of individual coping

4. Apply evidence-informed prevention strategies appropriate to the participant's practice setting

5. Articulate why supervision and peer support function as clinical protective factors

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

Paul Allen JR. is a licensed marriage and family therapist and BBS-approved clinical supervisor practicing in Ontario, California. My clinical work has focused on trauma-informed care, culturally responsive practice, and serving men of color. Different populations that often carry the weight of the world into the therapy room and sometimes sit in the therapist's chair carrying it too. He specializes in CBT, EFT, DBT, and the Gottman Method and provides supervision through both his private practice and Motivo.

Inland Empire Chapter of CAMFT is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCS, AND/or LEPs. IE-CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. CE Provider # 62278

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The Cost of Caring: Recognizing and Preventing Professional Burnout in Mental Health Practice (Friday, June 26, 2026)

PRESENTER: Paul Allen Jr. LMFT