When Helping Others Hurts You: Expressive Arts for Restoration and Resilience (2HR) Katie Wangelin, MSW, LCSW

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When Helping Others Hurts You: Expressive Arts for Restoration and Resilience (2HR)

$32.00

Course Description

Clinicians serve as instruments of change for the client populations they support. While clinical work can be rich in reward there is, too, the potential for burnout and secondary trauma in the life of a dedicated clinician. This workshop is designed to guide clinicians to a deeper awareness of the ways in which their work results in stress that may not easily be left behind at the office at the end of tiresome workday. Through the use of expressive arts, participants will explore their own professional stress and connect with tools to support healthy and effective processing of those more difficult clinical moments.

Course Objectives

Objective #1: Explore Sources of Professional Stress

Common stressors impacting clinicians
Personal stressors unique to individual clinicians

Objective # 2: Establish foundational knowledge of Expressive Arts

Person-Centered Expressive Arts Movement
Benefits of Expressive Arts modality
Common Expressive Arts practices

Objective # 3: Define and Apply the “Phased Approach” to Expressive Arts

Distraction
Grounding
Distress Tolerance
Processing
Reintegration

Objective #4: Identify Expressive Arts Tools for Ongoing Practice

Mindfulness activities
Building personal toolkit
Books and Apps to aid in Expressive Arts work

Course Format

Recorded Live Webinar with downloadable presentation slides and/or handouts, evaluation, and a required quiz. The learner is required to pass with a 70% or higher to achieve the CE certificate of completion. The learner is able to reset the test until a satisfactory score is achieved. CE Training Workshops, LLC, provider #1770, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 8/2/2022 – 8/2/2025. CE Training Workshops, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7091. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CE Training Workshops, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. System Requirements: Firefox, Chrome, Brave, Safari, Edge on any modern operating system (Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, iOS). A desktop browser is recommended. We do not provide support resources for issues encountered using a mobile device. For more information about our policies and board approval statements, please visit our FAQS page.

Meet Your Facilitator

Katie Wangelin, MSW, LCSW has amassed two decades of clinical experience working in the field of grief, loss, chronic illness, and trauma. As a clinical social worker, she works with clients across the lifespan (ages 11-99!) in her private therapy practice in Greensboro, North Carolina. In addition to the provision of individual and family therapy, Ms. Wangelin serves as a consultant to several local non-profits and provides group therapy for individuals living with serious medical conditions including cancer, ALS, and other progressive illnesses. Ms. Wangelin believes in strengthening the corps of up-and-coming mental health professionals. To that end, she also provides clinical supervision for provisionally licensed clinical social workers with an emphasis on supporting those clinicians embedded in medical communities. In addition, to experience as a direct-care clinician, Ms. Wangelin has served in a leadership capacity with organizations including The Women’s Resource Center of Greensboro, The Kids Path Program, and Authoracare Collective.

Syllabus

Introduction

Clinicians serve as instruments of change for the client populations they support. While clinical work can be deeply rewarding, it also carries the potential for burnout and secondary trauma.
This workshop is designed to help clinicians recognize how their work impacts their emotional well-being and to develop healthy, creative methods for managing professional stress.
Through experiential expressive arts activities, participants will explore their own stress responses and learn tools for sustainable self-care and emotional processing.

Objective 1: Explore Sources of Professional Stress

Identify common occupational stressors that impact clinicians across disciplines
Reflect on personal and situational stressors unique to individual practitioners
Discuss the cumulative effects of compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and emotional labor

Objective 2: Establish Foundational Knowledge of Expressive Arts

Define the Person-Centered Expressive Arts Movement and its relevance to clinician wellness
Explore the benefits of expressive arts as a modality for emotional expression and regulation
Review common expressive arts practices, including visual art, music, movement, and writing

Objective 3: Define and Apply the “Phased Approach” to Expressive Arts

Understand the five phases of expressive arts processing: Distraction, Grounding, Distress Tolerance, Processing, and Reintegration
Practice identifying which phase best suits different emotional and professional contexts
Apply the phased model to clinical self-care and reflective supervision

Objective 4: Identify Expressive Arts Tools for Ongoing Practice

Engage in mindfulness activities that integrate expressive arts principles
Create a personal toolkit for continued expressive processing beyond the workshop
Review recommended books, digital tools, and apps to support ongoing expressive arts practice

Summary and Q&A

Review the role of expressive arts in promoting clinician resilience and balance
Engage in participant reflection, discussion, and sharing of personal insights
Provide additional resources for continued exploration and self-care